Changing this One Thing Leads to Freedom

[@-Brendon-]

Angelo is legitimately the best pointer to non duality ever. He leaves no wiggle room for the mind. Masterful at least for my exact personality. he helped me see through the thought train. thank you so much Angelo 💜

[@life13525]

agreed...with not leaving out the often not spoken about deep dark shadow...his videos are a real support when all else no longer makes sense...

[@DTMA_8]

John Paolucci's Universal Line actually goes much deeper, 'further' as Jed McKenna would stay. No need for Dark Shadows when you understand and accept the Truth of Who you really are! Rejecting that Truth is what causes the suffering on this path, the darkness they tell you you need to experience to break through to awakening.

[@devamahi3943]

Love how you express it: "He leaves no wiggle room for the mind". ;) And yes, I agree.

[@marianorunco8850]

Still in the process of recognizing thoughts and repeating to myself: "This is a thought, that is a thought" over and over again, hundreds of times, thousands of times, all the time. It has started to change the way I see things. It seems that when we are mind-identified everything is a thought. We don't hear a sound, we hear the thought-sound. We see the thought-sight, etc. It's like a permanent overlay. Still breaking the wall of mind identification brick by brick, and in no hurry to finish the job.

[@wsheasley]

Super relatable. I also find that thoughts talk about themselves, sneaky sneaky thing.

[@amarperformance]

Soooo relatable. Another thing about this is sometimes i have thoughts that tell me “doing this is going to be exhausting” or “I’m tired of doing this over and over when are we going to rest” and that “rest” is completely falling back into thought. Maybe this is what he talked about in the book where we go back and forth. Don’t know, but i am trying my best to well… simply stay awake.

[@EmptinessEmbodied]

You believe** you are still in the process ;)

[@maryannscanlon8655]

Yep. And then another thought chimes in about the previous thought. It’s almost laughable. And maybe that’s what everyone is laughing about.

[@FreeFromDelusion]

@@EmptinessEmbodied hahaha the cosmic joke 😂😂😂😂

[@Bambica.]

Angelo takes his gloves off and is pulling no punches😅 This is it.. this is the one..❤

[@mikeyfinn2]

a video that actually delivers on "this one weird trick" 😆 great stuff

[@tutorial9322]

This video helped me quite a bit. No need to go into thought that much and analyze everything all the time… Just this moment, but without thinking “there’s just this moment and not that, not that, not that…” is a calming experience right now.

[@KaiLilliZakaria-dw8me]

When I let go of a thought or a train of thoughts, I am left with this intense feeling/sensation in the body. I feel like a pressure cooker. I get hot and my cheeks are burning. Fortunately, I do not argue anymore with or try to distract myself from this intense feeling/sensation. I do not pay as much attention as I used to. I could even say that if I do not resist it, it is quite pleasant at times. So, what is potentially distressing when I try to run away from it is gradually loosing its power. Thank you.

[@TerryFarrah]

I am having a similar experience: the sensations that compel me to grab the next thought are UNCOMFORTABLE! So it's hard to stick with them. Knowing that for you these sensations are gradually losing their power is encouraging for me.

[@AndrewWilliamSpence]

I get the same thing, sometimes it feels like fear/dread and other times joy/peace. I'm also conscious almost of the actual physical feeling of my brain processing the thought or that part of my brain trying to pull me to it. A very unusual feeling

[@MelFinehout]

This is interesting because I bumped into this exact insight the other day. I was solidly “there” i. e. Here. To an unusual extent for me. I am at the point where it seems to come and go. I wandered “how do I end up believing it? How does ANYONE believe, much less almost everyone. So, I decided to watch VERY VERY closely exactly HOW it happens. I couldn’t believe the simplicity. What I saw (in my words) was a thought arises, and with it a feeling. The feeling is something is better or worse than this. If it’s better then “I” must “do something” to make this reality different than it is in a time that isn’t now. I What I saw was simply that this isn’t what the “I” (ego) does. It’s what is IS. “You” are simply the process of trying to improve upon your feelings by acting in the present, informed by the past, to create a different future. When the process isn’t done, “you” aren’t there. I couldn’t believe it. I actually said out loud “fucking really, this is all you got!?!?” But then, it was time for me to do the dishes because I told her I would and she might be in a bad mood because…… So simple. But SO FUCKING STICKY. I mean, obviously there isn’t time that is not now, and there isn’t a place that isn’t here and this is the only way that here and now is, and the feeling you have is not good or bad just there doing it’s “push/pull” thing and the feeling is just there. The epitome of “easier said than done”.

[@MichaelsPaintingChannel]

With those thoughts it's just like watching shorts.. You have to force yourself to stop watching them, then you are the master 👍

[@jamwall1]

Before my colonoscopy a year ago, I was thinking that the anesthesiologist is always your best friend. Well, it turns out it's more than just the medicine. Thank you sir!

[@nublar3356]

This is the clearest pointer I've picked up from you so far. Beautiful. Thank you so much.

[@mariobeer5446]

It's funny, I just realized one of my fundamental beliefs through this method - that awakening is something that needs to happen. You really can't hold on to anything, every belief is a thought, so every belief is a thought believing a thought. Reminds me of what you said in your book, a house of mirrors.

[@KarenJohannaMeyer]

It simply releases this sense of love behind everything - the potentiiality of immense relaxation

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

The book A Course in miracles lesson 10 …. “my thoughts don’t mean anything”. frees things up a bit .

[@snakedogman]

Yeah, it feels like the compelling part of the thoughts is that they somehow form a sort of roadmap. A roadmap from the present moment which is deemed insufficient, to some future state of being where things are finally "ok". It's like "you better pay attention to every thought because you need to evaluate them all and make the correct choices and follow the correct thought-path to find/create your better life. And if you miss a thought or you didn't pay enough attention you might miss something really important and who knows where you'll end up then!" It this sense of wanting to be in control and to "figure life out" that makes the thoughts compelling (for me).

[@Klazi]

damnthat sounds rough

[@timmcfadden4653]

Thank you, man. The way you laid that out helped me.

[@AshleyStuart]

I just was giggling to myself when you were talking about all of the ways people could be processing the video in their thoughts. For me, I was just nodding along.

[@Stefan69whatever]

This video and yesterday's: awesome! Great work! Thank you for putting out this potent guidance.

[@matdear8120]

You know what Angelo, i am almost crying that I am not leaving close enough to get in one of your retreat and talk to you directly. Feeling so lonely on my path and its so rare to find teachings that resonate that precisely intimate. Thx 🙏

[@dawntate3878]

Angelo can’t thank you enough for your pointings which really have made massive shifts. Over the past 2 weeks the shit has really been hitting the fan and through your pointings I have been able to navigate through and able to observe the thoughts and see each situation has just come is- no labels of good bad. Feeling that strong knowing deep inside. Just started to read your book too. X💗

[@annsunderland4673]

“‘Living in the sense fields , completely free !” Wow yes !👌💯💗🤩 I’m starting to get a taste of that and see the freedom and simplicity in it at times , all from listening to and following your pointings to the sense fields, thank you so much 🤗🌟🥰

[@jondavid6148]

This should help, ur insight can be described in words ie thoughts but all thoughts are fundamentally a reflected distortion of reality. It's description of the insight is like it's best attempt to imitate the deep knowing of ur direct experience

[@jondavid6148]

It's like the mind can only get so far with the description. The same way that u could tell someone else ur insight using the same words, but to them, it would be completely meaningless. The thoughts are like a distorted symbol of the actual thing in itself

[@jondavid6148]

Like trying to describe the edge of a glass house but u don't know how big it is or....like trying to describe God when you are a fractal of God, it does it's best, and, truthfully it will say Anything to get your attention, true or false

[@FreeFromDelusion]

Pull out a deck chair lay back under the sun and bathe in yourself. you are the whole dream. The actor, the stage, the feelings, the bliss. One masterful creation. Who could have made it any more perfect. What an imagination❤❤❤❤ I’ll drink to that. Raise a glass and clap to the sky. Well done what a show 🎉😂🎉😂

[@AlexanderSamarth]

Dear Angelo, is there a proper way for me to ask a question you might choose to address in one of your videos? I will try here for now. The short version is my abiding awakening is a falling away of a mental, conceptual sense of self. There is still a subtle sense of self, however I basically do not believe the mind, thoughts. The moment this happened, a million tons of pain fell off my body and emotions and energy, and I also recognized.. what some call presence, beingness. This beingness is always here, and it has given me access to a powerful way of doing shadow work, of liberating all the traumas and trapped energy etc. So my present experience is "I am nothing, but presence is" - on almost every map of awakening, it seems people get the presence first, with an experience of oneness with everything and everyone, and later there's an experience of no self I suppose. While I can feel this presence subtly in all things, there is a deeper acceptance, empathy, love even, I do not yet experience this overwhelming sense of oneness. Have you seen this happen backwards? And, beyond abiding in presence and letting it unfold, is there any direct way from here to dissolve this filter and tap into that oneness? Thank you 🙏🏻

[@VeritableVagabond]

This video after watching so many over the years I feel has finally clarified for me how dead serious you are about thoughts and suffering. I don’t why I haven’t before.. but I felt like this video exposed me. Thank you Angelo.

[@starryamity33]

I literally am not percieving words from the start of this video because it's just that apparent here. 👏

[@Kishab-ow3qg]

This is really so clear, so grateful 🙏

[@VeritableVagabond]

Somehow the mind explains away the suffering that comes from grasping thoughts which keeps the suffering going… it’s really fking remarkable… stopping this suffering has gotta be akin to curing cancer

[@EricGross]

Do you think "we" grab onto that next thought is caused by the mind's boredom with the present moment? If mind is the personal narrative, then it has, for the most part, little buy-in with the present moment.

[@kazumawarren]

Thank you Angelo 🙏 your words are a light 🕯️

[@melinataeuber71]

I love it - simply stay in the gap - ---- it has an immediate impact - - - everything is still - - - only the senses - -

[@NaeryuDoWell]

Bravo! Your videos lately keep gettong clearer and clearer. What I learned is to investigate the pulling of the mind or tendency to go into thoiggt, and to more clearly see thouggts for what they are

[@Klazi]

i hate the thoiggts and the thouggts

[@seekr8555]

Thank-you Angelo. You may be onto something here😬

[@weaselscreamer]

Thanks so much Angelo!! what I understood from this video, in my own words: In the Theater of Thought, behind the scenes, emotions are running the show. Because emotions are so powerful in their own right, the thoughts we associate with them automatically attain a status of truth. If we break free from the emotion-driven thought patterns, we can be free.

[@anampe7570]

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏

[@BobSlapnik-fc6mb]

It appears that the pointing in this video holds true for every stage of awakening from the initial identity shift through no-self realization. If true, wow!

[@gentleeventful]

Gosh. Thank you.

[@jeffatkins1691]

This is happening. It can't be stopped now. Thank you my friend.

[@rauleugeniogamonal8187]

This is Gold My friend... Thanks for going direct to the point !!!

[@LeftTheMatrix]

Beautiful simplicity!!👏💃🫶

[@chrisdelaplante5515]

I feel like i'm hypnotized !

[@silverhandle]

Thank you! 😊

[@emilymacgregor4068]

Thank you. I feel that possibility and want it. Thoughts feel compelling because of a sense of fear if I stop. But they are uncomfortable and bring a sense of continual doubt/second guessing. This video is very helpful to tune into that compulsion and get closer to it. Feel and question it. Another wonderful pointing 🙏🏻🤗

[@ravanti5780]

That was great, thank you, and yes it's because I believe you know what you are talking about, love the content and you

[@hanibasim7598]

Amazing.

[@rowenahutchison4822]

Such a great pointer. Thank you! ❤

[@celesteschacht8996]

Thank you!!!!!

[@devamahi3943]

Amazing. Thank you. Works!

[@louisevs9152]

yes. this. 🙏

[@jacobpersi2821]

Listening to this while trying to stay focused in the senses. Thought after thought that carries me out and into the clouds. Back to the senses.

[@M.D-m1f]

That’s it, that’s all folks _________. Thanks Mister D.

[@TerryFarrah]

Investigating this, I saw that at the end of each thought is an upward movement of energy in the right side of my chest, neck, and face. And specifically I saw that the eyes glance upward and to the right. These things seem to compel me to notice the next thought. I then wondered what would happen if I prevented my eyes from glancing upward and to the right. I cast my eyes downward and saw the mental chatter greatly diminish. Coolio!

[@renko9067]

Fantastic clue. 🙏 Led me to the most authentic, timeless peace *I’ve* experienced. Can’t call it inquiry, meditation, or anything else.

[@ptanji]

Momentum. Like a bullet train!!

[@MyJoejoey]

Is it better to fully ignore the feeling that you have to grab onto a belief or is it better to observe that feeling

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Like a unending now for no one 🙏

[@voiceoftheearth7091]

Yeah, that works. Thank you for posting this video, much appreciated.

[@baronbullshyster2996]

There are two things in this world, (1)every thing that you can sense and (2) thought. Just take the thought out of the equation. And Experience what is now. Now start thinking and don’t realise your are thinking. Have a thought off desire because it makes you feel good and when reality says no too your desires, why not get angry and throw your toys out of the pram to show everyone who you really are. How dare reality treat me like this. I’m going to get offended by it and teach it a lesson. 1+1=3.

[@SuperFrankieKimm]

ooh! one with suspense...I've paused the video just before the "answer" to ask myself what I think I could change that might help me wake up. I could stop more. I could just STOP, whatever the heck it is I'm doing (like watching a youtube video and composing a comment) and come to my senses. I'm pretty sure that's not where angelo is headed with this one, but now I get to listen to the exciting conclusion... fun. thank you angelo, for whatever you're about to say! ❤

[@db8799]

When you see something "else" you are actually seeing PURE AWARENESS wearing a mask..

[@samshealy212]

THANK YOU 🙌

[@chipjones205]

Attention. That is what came to me. If I give attention to the first thought it compels me to feel it is something real. The more attention I continue to give this beginning of another story the more it drags me along. Your feedback Angelo? Thank you.

[@Ryan-Dempsey]

I enjoy everything that i do, otherwise i wouldn't do it. I enjoy clinging to a narrative - clinging to thoughts. I enjoy the search, the seeking. Once I stop enjoying that whole ride, it will stop. I used to hate seeking, I used to hate the search, I used to hate the pain. But I fucking love it, because it gives meaning, significance and specialness. The divine trickster just loves the build up to the punchline. It's one elaborate "set up" to the cosmic joke and the audience are on tender hooks 🙃😀😅

[@ganazby]

This is powerful. Thanks, Angelo!

[@NdubiNaomi]

So good!

[@kebobscat]

Thank you❤

[@tosvarsan5727]

I will put this question, despite I don't know if it has any value. Does the sensation come before the though or after, for me it is impossible to catch that.

[@TerryFarrah]

After

[@tosvarsan5727]

@@TerryFarrah love that, thanks

[@paulblack9600]

Thanks Angelo your video content and its timing for me as always is great.

[@MartinEiken]

I feel like I’m not consciously choosing to grab on to the thoughts, it just happens without me even realizing it. When I try to be consciously aware of the thoughts and not grab onto them, it just happens again and again anyway.

[@TerryFarrah]

Can you notice a sensation after a thought that seems to compel you to go on to the next one?

[@ravanti5780]

What links that thought into believing the next thought? The minds interest in the thought

[@ptanji]

Life changing message ❤️

[@ruisoares4515]

Great video Angelo! This is a masterpiece! ❤

[@Oversampled]

Hey Angelo, what are your thoughts on this ego resistance that is in the experience, like the fear of being more expressive, fear of being vulnerable, fear of doing something wrong, fear of anger, they all feel like me, like I'm in my own way and on one side I want to be free, but it also means that I have to let go of myself, how do you deal with that? BTW. It's this what your call the separate self or identity structures?

[@tom_see]

so damn good man, thank you, keep going pls

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

Hey question Angelo , if your simply always awake are you awake when your sleeping ? I mean this literally I think I remember a teacher saying you can be aware of the body sleeping too .

[@chamarigangoda2196]

Wow ! 🙏🙏🙏

[@QueSeraSera-f3s]

Isn’t non-duality or presence PRE-senses??

[@pedrosilva-im2kk]

Do you sell your book in portuguese? Tank you

[@georgesonm1774]

Difficult to distinguish between not grabbing a thought and using force to stop or suppress thoughts (forehead hurts after a while, even though the sight field does become clearer). In case I had already had an awakening, is this still a good practice? Or just letting thoughts be (as I feel like I know they don't "mean" anything) and maybe delve deeper into the feeling or belief which compels them to show up?

[@peterheineman2249]

Struggling to not grab on to the next thought sounds no different to me than trying to stop thoughts which you always say doesn't work and doesn''t help. How is it different?

[@VeritableVagabond]

Watch his video “feel peace instantly by not grasping thoughts”

[@snakedogman]

It's not quite like "struggling to not grab on". Is letting go of something really struggling? It might feel like that when we are really habituated into a certain action. Like an addiction. Quitting drinking (something I'm familiar with) feels like a struggle at first. But after a while it feels more like just letting go (a person who never drank alcohol is not struggling to stay sober). It's actually to stop struggling and let go. It's the holding on to the addiction that is the struggle, the struggle to not just feel what there is to feel, to experience what there is to experience right now in this moment.

[@trevorfurness5695]

Angelo, is there a sense of duty, or moral obligation, associated with bringing about the situation where the dual is positively reinforced by a rush of energy rooted in thought?

[@Doubledorje]

❤ ❤❤

[@williamhayslett9089]

It's weird, I can sense the "I" thought - I feel the momentum towards it and there's almost a safety in just sitting in that while I'm disregarding all other thoughts. I know I need to disregard this thought as well, but at times when I'm in that thought alone, bringing my attention into the body, I also get to a place of where the "I" thought still exists (it never goes away) but no longer has the content associated to it. Am I on the right track?

[@FromRuinRise]

What is the difference between a thought and a realization? How do I recognize the illusion yet retain “myself” to realize that?

[@goldmine4955]

To streamline the process of analyzing every thought, why don’t we, as a default, stop thinking altogether.

[@wolfgangfinke7403]

Did the Community Locator function for people living in german speaking countries? I failed putting it to use. I'm living around the "Weißwurstgürtel".

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Still working out the wrinkles. I will announce once it is ready

[@wolfgangfinke7403]

thanks for answering!@@SimplyAlwaysAwake

[@yeisonquiceno6747]

I feel that when it comes to relationships I still experience a lot of inner turbulence and it sometimes feels a little unsettling to observe certain thoughts. I apologize for asking but would you able to maybe guide me a little with this? I feel it’s the one aspect where I experience the most attachment and I sometimes see no way out.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

You mention the challenges of the process about 1/3 of the way through. There’s no doer tho right Angelo? There have been several very clear seeing’s or recognitions here that everything I think I’m doing I’m not. Rather Sean is being done. It’s only the character that thinks it has any choice. I “seem” to choose what I will do, but I know I don’t choose what I choose. Choice has been proven in research studies to occur 6-8 seconds before ego says it made a choice. With that in mind I feel a sense of relax, it’s either gonna happen or it won’t. Am I wrong?

[@oneom8158]

💙🙏💙

[@Rizzmaster9001]

what's the difference between not grabbing thought and forcing thoughts to stop?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Think of it like this. What is the difference between not grabbing an animal like a cat or dog (or wild animal) and grabbing it and trying to force it to stop moving?

[@Rizzmaster9001]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake if I don't grab the cat I will be absorbed by it

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@Rizzmaster9001that’s very good answer

[@johnpienta4200]

Uhhh I thought we were getting potent before. This is the TTX of ignorance paralytics. No click-bait, just straight truth. Wow.

[@k.f.9875]

So what do you think about those non-duality people who are against teaching (e.g. Tony Parsons and Jim Newman)?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yet they keep making videos and having retreats? 😂😂. Do the math.

[@k.f.9875]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I know, it is so ironic. But they say that the help is made not through any teaching, but through the energy present at retreats. They say there is nothing to do to awake or librate, coz that is again the “me” trying to get something. But what is your take on that uncompromising non-duality?

[@k.f.9875]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake And when they are asked, “so why do you make videos or have retreats?” they say, “well I don’t, there is no me here, those things are done, videos are made, etc.”.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@k.f.9875 😂😂

[@GerardL-sj9wq]

You say insights are not thoughts so I'm wondering how to recognize them. Thare have been times when after aggressively watching thoughts the mind would become still and clear. It becomes obvious that thoughts aren't created by "me" and the sense of self is nowhere to be found and then realize that there never was a self. This is what I thought insight is, but I hear it in my own voice in the mind. Your description suggests those are just thoughts too. Now I'm confused.

[@peterheineman2249]

Me too!

[@cuttingthrough4718]

As you say… ‘It becomes obvious’ thoughts aren’t created by me and the sense of self is nowhere to be found. Is this ‘it becomes obvious’ not a direct insight that doesn’t rely on thought? No need to hang onto any thought of it, as this is but the mind trying to claim it afterwards. Just keep seeing directly and let thoughts go.

[@GerardL-sj9wq]

Thanks for the help. It took a while to sink in. It may take some practice to notice insights as they appear but I guess it may not matter much. Maybe with insights it isn't important to notice because there's nothing to be done with them, whereas thoughts need to be seen as such.​@cuttingthrough4718

[@davidtrindle6473]

I don’t “believe “ in anything. Belief implies I weighed all the evidence pro and con and arrived at something “true. “ But this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of new pro and con data, possibly causing a change in belief. So “I believe” is always provisional and therefore self-contradictory on its face. (This statement itself is not a belief; it is a direct witnessing of the appearance of the inner workings of awareness and thought). Of course, there are plenty of beliefs bouncing around in thought here, such as “ it’s a good idea to brush my teeth every day.” But these are not “my” beliefs”, they are socially constructed, and any day the dentists might come out with new data that changes the social construction. But the main point is that it’s a societal belief, not “personal,” as the idea of a long lasting independent “person“ functioning according to free will is itself a social construction (the matrix). So that’s why I don’t believe in anything. Life seems to arise spontaneously and unbidden. It seems completely capable of functioning on its own without the help of a so-called “person.“ By ruthlessly investigating inner experience there may be a relaxation, a detachment and a dropping off of rigid beliefs leaving behind a sense of “traveling lighter.”

[@darbydelane4588]

🤜🏽🤛🏼

[@BobSlapnik-fc6mb]

As I watch thoughts from the silence whatever is holding on seems to be related to a subtle sensation in my chest.

[@TH-nx9vf]

You say everyone can do this but what about schizoid, autistic spectrum, psychotic personalities ? These are particularly powerful thought habits - is it just a case that they take longer than neurotypicals to see through thoughts or is it practically impossible? Asking for a friend 😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Def not impossible and autistic has significant advantages. Check out Pernille Demore (sp?). I interviewed her and her channel is fabulous

[@bobnegri6098]

I need to or l’m going to die!!!

[@MsThaithai11]

Don't grab on to the next thought. ,even if it contains the secret of the universe....lol

[@slalialley3786]

what is this - charades?! 😂

[@Mikemydog1]

Homer Pyle could get to the point quicker than this

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂

[@renko9067]

*Gomer Pyle 😂

[@TerryFarrah]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I thought it was lovely and useful that you did this gradual introductory buildup

[@M.D-m1f]

That’s it, that’s all folks _________. Thanks Mister D.

[@rajwantneena]

Thank you 🙏🏼