Awakening | Thoughtless Space

Can you confirm thoughtless consciousness without thinking about it? This video discusses exactly how to go about this. When we are approaching awakening we will come to this place of thoughtless (or nearly thoughtless) consciousness. It is without content, clear and self-validating. Pure experience.
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[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

This is part one of a two part series. I will release the other tomorrow :)

[@birgit8996]

Beautiful❤

[@lynnwalton7495]

Thank you for this 💜 x

[@SamRoff]

Man, I can't thank you enough for these Angello. Immense gratitude.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're very welcome

[@tomorrowneverknows248]

Looking into the unknown feels like taking an infinitely long road trip with "baby thought" in the backseat constantly going: "are we there yet? I think we have arrived! Daddy daddy it's right here." Hopefully "baby thought" will take a nape eventually.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Totally ! 😂

[@scottmcdowell27]

You're on a roll - I'm really appreciate these videos, you're on the cutting edging answering questions and discussing things you rarely hear about. Really useful content for those seeking awakening, going through awakening and awakened!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for your comments Scott :)

[@angelinadancer]

Yes 😁😁

[@nat998]

Don't move... Just stay here ❤️

[@dar_jada]

I walk my dog, wash the dishes, balance the checkbook repeating "no ego, no mind" not to repress but to let go of the mind on its wheel of fear, engaged in obsessive rantings, and endless story creation. Sometimes I am in a place of total freedom. At some point, perhaps I won't need this mantra, "no ego, mind" to remind myself to let go and just be.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Love it!

[@Slide9-xl3qb]

I Keep returning to this one and it just keeps giving ❤

[@VeritableVagabond]

Hahaha thought I was watching a trailer for the Matrix 4 with that intro! Thank you, this really snaps me out of doubt.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂 wormhooooooole…

[@Blakev84]

In my opinion you are one of the most clear speakers on non duality currently coming out with content. Very helpful stuff. Thank you! Could you possibly speak to identification with the body, specifically movement and navigating the world. I feel at times very identified with my body and its actions throughout the day

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, I will likely make a video on this topic in near future. Thanks for your comment.

[@ToreSG705]

Went from an effortfull watching of the self *visually* , which gives a headache or strain around the eyes, to an effortless _feeling_ of the I. A warmth consumed me and the I and the surrounding feelt like strings of felt sensation. Suddenly switching from aware of awareness in a visual sense to a *felt sense* made a huge shift. I don't know but there is a sense of peace now.

[@carynroll4725]

Hi Angelo, I watched this video, it felt like you led me into the thoughtless space. Everything felt open and clear. Then when the video was over crash boom bang back into my thought content addiction.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Takes some practice but you can definitely lead yourself back there :)

[@jannbarber3625]

I so appreciate these videos. Thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You’re welcome :)

[@romainp6772]

As I was listening to this sitting still, I felt like a star shining light through my body and lighting itself, some intense inner and outward movements. I felt being here amd nowhere. These are just words and yet thank you.

[@Oversampled]

It got even clearer 😮

[@katye7727]

Another brilliant pointing. Love the idea that the next thought is not needed as a life raft. No life raft is needed when one is the ocean. This music is particularly conducive to deeper absorption of the message. Thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Indeed! We only need this one singular experience :) There is infinite depth here :)))

[@MK7of7of7of7]

Thank you for showing me the way home.

[@morpety]

' do not dirty it up with the fingers of the mind' - Exquisite!

[@Susan-ol4ys]

Superb clarity thank you, I love and benefit from each video

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for your comment :)

[@SonyaSunny]

In a culture/mindset/career of thoughts/thinking, not thinking is surprisingly difficult. I had no idea how addicted to thinking I am. This teaching is so helpful and for the first time, I can actually not think, and be ok with it!! Thank you!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

!!!!

[@macparker3549]

You say near the end of this: “Nothing is held, or held onto, yet everything is allowed…” This is such an exquisite crystallization of how this seems to work in my experience. As always, my bottom line response to what you are actively offering here is gratitude… 🙏🦋💎

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)

[@korneliaheidegger3116]

Cool beginning! Black hole anihilating all illusions 😄 💗

[@korneliaheidegger3116]

Thinking mind says its frightening 🤣🤣

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad you like!!

[@mvl5762]

I found you on Dr Z and listened to all of your talks! Thanks for offering and sharing so much info!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You’re welcome!

[@qqqrrr2556]

this is such a good meditation video.

[@eugenedufour8815]

You are sensationnel,thank. You

[@unnameablespace8945]

Love the background in the videos.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad to hear it!

[@Olivier562]

I like to meditate and listen to this video. It takes me closer to no mind.🙏🏾

[@youtoucan2312]

I am just at the beginning. Isn’t the question “What is this” also a thought? When feeling for the thoughtless space, I feel that there are tiny ripples of unseen thoughts down below, not emerging as full thoughts for me to dismiss. I am sure with practice this will settle and I am not too concerned about it. The outstanding feeling for me, almost immediately, during practice is an awareness of my entire body and a tingling hum, even sitting here typing this, I can access that hum instantly, strongest in hands and feet. Almost like feeling the energy running through my body and nerve endings. It is not unpleasant or distracting, in fact, the opposite. I have never meditated or sought awakening before, though my mind has searched for this most of my life. Your book is here, so I will continue without haste or pressure, but with some pointers.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

A thought can arise spontaneously that says "what is this?" However if you ask the question direct your attention to this indescribable mystery and don't seek a conceptual answer, it is a catalyst that can be exceptionally powerful. So no need to have analytic follow up thoughts about that being a thought in that moment, just continue to orient to the unknowable sense. That's very good that you have access to such direct experience immediately. You can simply orient to that hum, no need to do anything more if it naturally clarifies.

[@youtoucan2312]

Simply Always Awake Thank you for your reply, time and energy Angelo. It is very much appreciated. I am curious. I heard you speaking in one of your early group meditation videos about artwork behind you and were questioned whether it was your own work. I am also inclined towards my artistic side and have painted and drawn passionately my whole life (I do not like the self proclaimed “Artist” title). I can access this hum through my body immediately, as that is the place I paint and draw from, where I feel, rather than think (I also access this place while washing the car, cutting the grass, riding my motorcycle….). I wonder is it the same place you paint from? Maybe this is what makes it easier for creatives to wake - I remember you mentioning it in a chat with Zubin.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@youtoucan2312 yes the creative impulse appears to arise directly as the sensate field

[@DeeQu8nT81]

Amazing. Thank you so much.

[@Phantom.1]

Awesome!

[@evglenka1]

Who is there between the experiences? And the answer that comes is : body… although theoretically I know it’s not the right answer, but that is the most sincere answer for now…

[@colmrooney414]

I enjoy this

[@anncairns8889]

I really needed to hear this 🫂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)

[@anncairns8889]

So appreciative of your wisdom. Taking it as slow as I can 🌹

[@ellearo]

Cool intro

[@johnmedina9086]

Are you to a point to where this thoughtless state is your default mode network or do you have to meditate in the morning or do some kind of ritual each day that puts you there? I’ve always wondered if truly enlightened people had to still intentionally get themselves into this quiet all knowing state each morning or day or does this state eventually just become who you are without having to intentionally “raise your vibration” each morning by meditation.. staring at a candle flame… listening to a window unit… etc

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

No internal or external "world" nor is there a dividing line between inside and outside. It's a free floating non-spatial field of vivid interpenetrating phenomena, self supported, without hinderance or fixation. In "this" anything can appear including thought. There is no sense of agency, so no need to cause anything to happen or clarify. At some point it is a self- perpetuating clarification of infinite dimensional experience, so nothing to wake up or be asleep, nothing that can be hidden or revealed, lost or gained :)

[@johnmedina9086]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I believe that I experienced this non dual state about 2 weeks ago for about a whole day. It was as if every single sign or phrase or sticker or whatever was in front of me in those moments was literally guiding my whole life experience. Everything I looked at and came across this day just hit me at such a deeper level that I felt for the first time that I was truly being guided by the universe. From commercials on tv, to little safety stickers on my forklift I drive at work, to random emails I would get..everything just seemed so real and vivid and made so much sense that it kinda felt as if I were in a video game and I was choosing moment to moment what reality I wanted to be in.. I got a taste(I think anyway) of actually experiencing what infinite realities is was like and this might sound a little out there but at one point of the night while I was working I was so present and in the moment it was as if I could slow down time with my own mind. I was so in charge of what was going on in my life in those moments that It felt like I could literally manipulate this dimension of space and time to my advantage. I also just intuitively knew exactly what to say to whoever I came across and it felt as if I had all of a sudden had all of the answers to any questions or problems that would pop up in my mind instantly. I believe you may refer to this as just this sense of all knowing?(or something along those lines) Does any of this resonate with you? Is this what it feels like when you get into the deeper stages of realization?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, this is what I would call a pre-taste of awakening. Keep inquiring into the nature of presence, yourself, moment to moment experience and those dimensions of experience will open up in unexpected ways :) Thanks for the comment

[@nicksyoutubeaccount]

I just keep having thoughts 😢

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@RamSamudrala]

Sometimes you say "don't produce a thought" and sometimes you say just observe the thought (and others also say observe thoughts without judgement, without being identified with it). "Don't produce a thought" is doable (there is no fear) but is that not work? Like I also wrote, paying attention to thoughts if they arise dissipates them. I asked "what does it mean" and you wrote "meaning would be another thought."*** Maybe this is related or maybe not, but things have gotten more shiny lately (last few weeks). Also my head tingles when I produce no thoughts or just present. (For about 3 weeks I had my head and shoulders convulse when I tried to collapse the distance between awareness and awareness of and in the live session you said I should do it more gently and that seemed to work and that's what went from convulsion to tingling.) ***To all this, it's largely quiet but the mind (thought) goes "what does it mean?" or "is this awakening" or "I'm already awake, is the veil dropping?" or something else. Some are very subtle I feel, almost imperceptible but that also is a thought. Mind/thoughts further go: "Maybe the shininess is just you being present more, you just never paid attention since you were lost in thoughts." Or "Maybe the shininess and tingling is due to some medication, or blood sugar level". There are still thoughts that "catch me off guard" or where "I lose myself". Mind goes: "maybe there's a transition phase."

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

when I say anything (no matter what it is) , if it stops the mind great... if it leads to analysis just throw it out with the trash and move on :)

[@evian.]

I felt it

[@birgit8996]

💭💓

[@Amaterasu77306]

Is this the final step? Trying to be as present as possible in this thoughtless state.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

No. As I answered to another comment: Great inquiry. Also important that at whatever point one clearly sees / experiences the “answer” to “Who Am I?” They realize it’s important not to use questions to lead yourself back into doubt/into thought. Even if it is thoughtless thought. But rather to lean into vivid experience right now more like “What is this?” The experience itself being the answer. Can you sense this distinction? It becomes irrelevant who or what is making this happen , because happening is making it happen, so just let it overtake you

[@Mevlinous]

A thought seems to be a compressed program to carry out some kind of action based upon judgements or other thoughts. But as you mentioned it’s powerless without awareness, and demands the resource of awareness to carry out its plan or function. But when this happens awareness seems to collapse into the event of thought producing action. That seems to be the point at which the sense of identity is imprinted from that thought. What I want to know is, once not duality is realised and that the Illusion of separation is seen through, does that thought then regain its power? Or a thought still seen as thoughts without identity.?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It's seen clearly that only a thought can say that a thought causes anything to happen, sort of a self hypnosis. This clearly experienced non-agency is pretty much impossible to imagine (with thought) but once revealed to be the case it is extremely obvious :)

[@leododgewiper]

Hey I really like your channel, the only thing is: It's kind of hard to follow if you always make small breaks/pauses in your sentences. I don't know if that's intentionally, but if it is, it doesn't produce the desired effect (for me at least).

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Not sure if it’s intentional either 😂… but I know why the gaps are there, they are sort of helping the listener to pace out their processing and become aware of the gaps between thoughts, pointing to the non-conceptual. It may be uncomfortable for that exact reason. But I do appreciate the feedback ☺️

[@user-ji8ll1qn6o]

Was this a hypno session

[@aureliafox2924]

🙏

[@sensitiveartistguy]

Isn't anyone else annoyed by the scare at the start? Everyone else is just praising and praising..🤭

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Boo!

[@sensitiveartistguy]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Haa haa!

[@unnameablespace8945]

empty yet flooded, but not 🤪 Unidentified with what flows through what seems to be divine mind, divine will, divine heart... spontaneous, abstract creativity, flow, purely for inspiration... but not 🙃🤣

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

⚡️

[@johnfiorello1931]

Dirty fingers of the mind 😂😂

[@VeritableVagabond]

Stop thinking. Return to monke.

[@widipermono229]

🙏🙏🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🙏🏼