Awakening | Why Life Feels So Heavy

[@Oversampled]

It's as simple as disentangling yourself from thoughts! As you've said in your book "it's just a thought" is really liberating. I've noticed recently that when I get possessed by some thought, my mood decreases and then I'll go "uff, it's just a thought", what a relief man! It's mind-blowing! I see experientially that that's the source of suffering for people. It's so simple! 😄 Whats interesting is that throughout my life I was always fighting this idea of "you need this, you need that to be happy", maybe cause I was a rebel, but maybe cause I intuitively felt that it shouldn't be that way. Everybody told me tho that that's exactly how it should be! It's sad that we don't notice the truth more often.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

💥⛩🙏

[@SleepChopTravels]

Thank you for this. I wonder what a world would look like if we all can realize this.

[@dar_jada]

Each one of your videos spur me to continue past the conditioning that has kept me from the pure sense of being. I experience moments of peace when I let go. These pointings remind me I can do this if I persist.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You got this!

[@aureliafox2924]

Wow 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 thanks, I don’t have to explain any of it!!! 😅😂🤓🥸🥳 and ifwhen I get tempted I will just remind myself to listen to this beautiful description of a wheel 🥲🥹🙏🌚🌝

[@lynbrowne931]

Conceptually I get what your saying, I’m reading your book and I’ve realised I’m addicted to my thoughts 🤔

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

an important step!

[@SonyaSunny]

Me too! It’s like my mind doesn’t know what to do, when I try to quiet it… It ends up running overtime, when I am trying to quiet it…

[@scottmcdowell27]

Spot on. Awakening makes you realise that life itself doesnt have this heaviness but that just the condition of the mind. A lightness and ease takes it places and you go with the flow, life happens you don't have to force everything.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Well said

[@nat998]

"That's all I got for today" 😂 I Iove it! A sledgehammer straight through the mirror ❤️ The struggle of being a separate self trying to manage my life is only ever as temporary as the body housing the mind. The separation only exists in the mind machinery and is time bound. For example when you sleep where does that "person" go? It vanishes along with the struggle. What I Am isn't a concept, it's not a word or description. It's the cessation of all that. It simply is being alive without the need to define what being alive means. I use words like consciousness but it's not that. There's a place deep within what feels like my heart that feels to me like the darkest inner earth labyrinth, that's what I feel I am. A cave inside my heart and that makes zero sense to say but how do you describe that sweet spot ❤️ Thank you Angelo👌

[@nat998]

I can't leave my house Or answer the phone I'm going down again But I'm not alone Settling at last Accounts of the soul This for the trash That paid in full As for the fall, it began long ago Can't stop the rain Can't stop the snow I sit in my chair I look at the street The neighbor returns My smile of defeat I move with the leaves I shine with the chrome I'm almost alive I'm almost at home No one to follow And nothing to teach Except that the goal Falls short of the reach "The Goal" by Leonard Cohen, one of my personal heroes. Written shortly before he passed. Don't know why I posted it here, but this is the best description, or means to relay via language what this entire "process" feels like for me ❤️✨

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome 🪞

[@cheesesteakpizza]

Delivered right on time 🙏💗

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)))

[@radaztraci1830]

12:46.....What good will it do you to compare one idea to another idea when I'm talking past ideas....I love that!

[@alansmith1041]

I appreciated how this got to the heart of the matter Angelo. Especially the "What good does it do to compare concepts, I'm pointing beyond concepts" part.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

thanks for your comment

[@Michalk852]

Struggling against struggle pointing resonated with me and relieved me somehow 😁 Thank you

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome :)

[@andreasheridan7394]

Thank you Angelo, so appreciated.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You are very welcome

[@mattbuchanan6729]

Question 🙋‍♂️! I was obsessed with awakening , had an experience where I saw I wasn’t my thoughts , felt the most peace for 3-4 days then crashed ! But now i don’t care , it’s like that obsession disappeared , is that normal ? That obsession consumed my mind for years and now I don’t even give it a thought , at the same time though suffering was the fuel of the obsession, it was hand in hand

[@mattbuchanan6729]

When it comes to awakening I’m always in doubt lol

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes this is fine. Suffering fuels the impetus to awaken. With time it may call you to investigate deeper insights but doesn’t have to be through seeking. Now it may be more like intuition or fascination with the texture of experience etc

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

what you got for today is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you.

[@macparker3549]

Lord, I comment so damn much that I start watching a video telling myself I’m NOT going to comment on this one. And then your pointing is so exquisitely clear and spot on that I have to thank you yet again. So, thank you yet again… 🙏🙏🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂 At least you know that if I do an award ceremony for my comments section, you are guaranteed an award!

[@macparker3549]

😂

[@macparker3549]

“Most Likely to Be Verbose…” 😄😆🤬

[@katehiggins9940]

me too 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️🐇🐇🐇

[@macparker3549]

Hi, Kate! 😆💎🔥🦋

[@johnb2138]

That was so spot on for me, I listened to it twice, and saved it to listen again, until I don’t need to😌thanks so much.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!

[@satsitananda]

So good!!

[@mattlikex]

Another banger full of truth torpedos. Thank you Angelo!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You bet

[@gracefrazier4775]

Gratitude.

[@Hfvvhbbb]

To go beyond concept is just the beginning

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

indeed

[@MissRomanticKitty]

Thank you 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome :)

[@nancykunik4370]

When here of talk about struggling or suffering this always seems to point toward ego and the merry-go-round of thoughts, identity,past,future ect. I feel my core being as stillness and calm most of the time...so without thought and only using the senses the actual sensation of chronic physical pain is real ,how could this not be suffering... it's not like you can just"'stop" and the pain is gone...

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

With liberation pain is still felt but there is no suffering, noi heaviness, and most importantly no sense that things could or should be another way. That may not sound desirable but in direct experience it's quite something :)

[@KK-qd6ro]

This may be of no help, but it wants to be said. I recently experienced severe pain in my toe, the thought came that my toe had been cut off. I grabbed my toe still there, another thought appeared directed at the toe "Stop it, your fine there's nothing there." To my amazement the pain faded away. This was not done consciously by "Me" . Not sure if it would work if tried consciously, but couldn't hurt. : o )

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@KK-qd6ro :0

[@goych]

@@KK-qd6ro that sounds like a bypass to me, the pain is always pointing to some unconscious material that needs to be seen ime, and more and more I see deep emotions wanting to bubble up

[@goych]

Absolutely real Nancy, it’s pointing to something unconscious that needs to be seen, there’s more work to do! Argh

[@pchabanowich]

The immensity and vampiric qualities of the struggle are a terrible tyranny, which, when exposed (oh Great Good Fortune, shine!), revealed is the bleed of energies.😶

[@richardallan2767]

Get the impression that since the body has mind processes that work constantly to keep it alive as a body, this same survival drive has shifted, now we have developed cognition, to preserving a consistent linguistically created story of ego, via repetition of thought, memory, likes, dislikes etc. At a weird point myself of trying to balance the paradox of self as nothing, where i can slip between thought, and be in and as awareness, while also finding a lot of positive, functional use with holding awareness at certain material points, and certain energetic/mind/feeling states, which is, i'm aware, just a different version of holding on to/creating a sense of self. Just one more in a mix of sensory information, and, let's call it imagination. I just found more and more that with the natural awareness/merged with environment state i got lost in phenomena. Not my thoughts on them, as much as of as other in and as itself, and that getting a bit sticky. Like it didn't catch against ego, (more precisely, i am not aware, mostly, of where it is catching in body/mind) but clearly built up in my body/mind and made me feel drained and generally grotty and low consciousness. Self being aware of low consciousness, rather than being it, but that being the extent of my experience, none the less. Remedied by stilling and centering, but needing to be remedied. Now i'm trying to a experimenting with first, and last, being self which is constantly self as nothing/awareness, rooted in present sensory experience, but tuned into fixed and constant awareness of physical locations and certain energetic/feeling states, but without stopping the flow of experience, just keeping plates spinning at the same time. Or better, keeping tuned into certain signals that otherwise get lost in the noise. Feels better when i do it, actually more rooted in and as consciousness BUT i am aware it's just a different form of a "self". Of maintaining something. Still, if nothing else, it's increasing my ability to remember, to be focused constantly, because, damn, mind is not good at that. Basically the truth of self is constant, in which all change and flow occurs. Just adding, from that truth of self, a way to volitionally transform Being, in line with will, without it being at the expense of now, and without it being all about aversion/attraction and ego preferences. (Good luck with that eh, hahah) Who knows if i'll drop it because it's fake, at some point, but like i say it feels functional, and in many, heck all ways, when those plates spin by themselves, it feels completely real and true and natural,. it has increased centering in and as self, and is massively increasing my ability to be constantly focused, expansive, at peace and now. Essay, soz. Be interested in your thoughts though.

[@richardallan2767]

Oh yeah, how's it relevant to this: Struggle is just the self keeping itself alive. It makes it up to keep the story going.

[@petecalgaro]

Thank you! Feeling this…

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome !

[@katehiggins9940]

unconditioned IS good!!!❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@joeg2471]

Hi Angelo. I find your videos and pointers very valuable, thank you. Could you please do a video where you talk about how the ‘feeling of the joy of being’ changes or is experienced with different physical feelings of wellbeing. Ie if I don’t exercise I feel blah and have mental fog, a low mood and sadness. If I do exercise I feel more alert, upbeat, happier. If I was awakened how would I experience these different scenarios? And what about when you are sick, do you still feel as much joy of being as you do when you are not sick? This is an aspect of understanding I don’t see discussed and given it’s something dealt with everyday it would really help to see how it ties together.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Perhaps I can. Good idea

[@MultiJrcastro]

omg the wave is cookie monster - and the cookie is not separated from itself, like waves in the ocean.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

it's cookies all the way down.....

[@angelinadancer]

Totally 😊

[@SonyaSunny]

This is so helpful!!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad it was helpful!

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

👏🏻🙏🏻

[@AthishWaran1983]

Thanks Angelo! Helped me a lot. naive question : one need to live mindlessly or conciouslessly? Which one is better i.e ignorance is bliss or knowing everything and stay away from it is bliss? Which is real awakening? Sorry, asking lot of questions but couldn't control myself, Thanks

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The more you investigate the deeper nature of presence (esp after awakening) the clearer it will be that you don't necessarily have to make this distinction/decision. What is needed will appear and what is not, well , there will be no interest :)

[@dar_jada]

"............."💕

[@cookiemonster9276]

Fuck yeah. Mind blowing. Thanks bro.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome :)

[@stephenharper4956]

Thanx

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome

[@chamarigangoda2196]

🙏🙏🙏

[@MrMrscoffey]

Good

[@jamesngera8286]

How do we balance being and doing in this dynic world

[@AtypicalPaul]

Question...random thought... could someone be a prepper and be awakened ? I'm not one just like I said random thought.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Anyone can wake up 😁

[@mat.se57]

Good morning from Germany ✌️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Good morning

[@MrADTNZ]

Does it happen by chance ?? Is it grace ?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

sometimes by chance, always grace :))))

[@David-eu1ms]

I'm not sure if I am understanding the idea of self not being real, what if anything is really real?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

When the realizastion of no-self is clear, it is also clear that there are no objects, nothing formed or abiding.

[@David-eu1ms]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake so you're saying that everything is being manifested by each person's mind?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@David-eu1ms every “thing” is yes, but things are fabrications as is separation, space, time, meaning etc.

[@David-eu1ms]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake aren't we here to experience these polarities tho?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@David-eu1ms though I hesitate to make a statement about why we are here, if I did I might say we are here to see the truth of life/reality in all of its aspects.

[@charlesiveson2642]

Morality seems to be a sticking point for me, I feel conceptualizing is needed for acting appropriately

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, we've learned not to trust ourselves, our spontaneous action.

[@jameslu680]

777 views , 77 likes . Sry 78 now

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:0

[@iamnanaklove]

When I listen to your words I can’t ever figure out how your view count is so low. Then again people run away from my Dharma teacher. People really don’t want to wake up.

[@goych]

The lower the view count, the better?! Have you checked out scott kiloby? He does post loads but his views are looow coz what he’s talking about is really deep and tricky and as you say a part of us doesn’t really want this, it wants safety