Don't Move! -- Answering Viewer Comments

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[@jdubluffy1959]

I really love the word unbinding

[@Jhawk_2k]

Don't move! But don't stand still...

[@festral7509]

any tips on letting go of some of the harder concepts like personal responsibility and morality? I don't mean becoming irresponsible, amoral or anything like that. But society demands you to play by certain rules, live up to certain expectations and to take responsibility for your so called actions. those I can't let go of without risking my career and life.

[@jacquelinesavageau]

The very last comment I highly resonate with. I’ve had a spiritual awakening and some direct perceptions into the eternal, but n😅w I’m at a phase where everything is uncomfortable. So much is coming to the surface, no coping mechanisms work and yet I feel like I’m right on the edge. There’s so much fear. Help😂😂 that self-reflection/monitoring I also feel this as well.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

The last comment was mine. It’s a hellava ride innit? Had some shadow stuff come up 2 weeks ago that just crushed me. I was so disgusted and deeply saddened too. As a 12 step person I applied step work too it. I inventoried it, shared it with a trusted friend and was definitely ready to have it removed and or reconfigured. Since then there’s been a huge release. It appears there was a massive drop in the “seeking” energy. The body / mind has relaxed in a big way. That seeking energy has been driving, driving, driving (me insane 😂🤣😂) the bus and what a relief to get off. I’d heard someone say at some point along the way that awakened is a fact, it’s gonna happen at some point so it’s ok to let go, let go, let go. Feels like that’s what’s happening. The failure of the mind to grasp this and or “make it happen” appears to be a success in its failure. So keep holding on while letting go at the same time. Never give up, always let go. Love you ❤ There’s no escape from an imaginary place right? 😂🤪🤓🥸

[@jacquelinesavageau]

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 wild, i just joined a 12 step, letting go, letting go.

[@ravenwild5184]

Love these, thank you. Have you heard of Dr. Judith Blackstone? She has been teaching and writing about Non Duality and Embodied Awakening for about 40 years. She also teaches healing our trauma through embodied realization. I'd love hearing you interviewing her. Thanks again for your dedication to awakening.🎉🎉🎉

[@JohnDoeBand1]

Hey Angelo, really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. I wasn't clear in my question so I will try again: Direct experience can't exist - everything experienced is from a perspective (pointing). What can be "just here" without a perspective? In other words *something* is always noticed to the exclusion of everything else, no? What am I not getting? Thanks again Angelo

[@macaroon147]

Good question

[@johnpienta4200]

Check out his video on the 6th fetter with Kevin Shanilec. The resolution to this question can be seen directly.

[@dvdmon]

I'm always hesitant to ask questions like this because they verge on trying to hard to conceptualize things, but I think as you said it is important to at least understand the terms being used, that you use in your videos, and so I was wondering if perhaps at some point you could make a video on some of these terms to define them in really basic ways. The ones in particular that I'm interested in knowing how you define them and how you use them in relation to awakening are "experience," "perception," and "insight." I know these are basic in some ways, and sometimes I feel like I can intuit the meaning, but it might be helpful for myself, and perhaps those new to your channel, to make a video where these terms are compared and contrasted or just defined?

[@facsimile-io3dd]

Try this. If I poke you in the middle of the back with a red-hot poker you'll 'perceive' a pain and think something has happened. You'll feel it with your hand and will 'know' that perception is real. Memory of the pain and any scar created is 'experience'. The 'insight' is that you should not let me approach from behind you. 'Perception' is physical sensation, 'experience' is stored as memory, and 'insight' is a thought. For example, when I first went DIRECT I (initially) presumed it to be a 100% physical infinite-mind, which co-exists with every thinker's body (i.e. no soul is required for it to operate). And that the 'DIRECT' mind is entirely a body-mind function, possibly an instinctual original beast-mind. A CMOS/BIOS program, of the human material's 'hardware'. By which I mean I considered that there was no 'ethereal' aspect required to explain it's physical operation if it's a 100% a physical capability of all human bodies within a physical infinite space that has this innate ability as living matter and energy. This is applying an, 'Occam's Razor Principle'--the least complicated way of explaining all observations is the one most likely to be correct. Except I also simultaneously DIRECTLY "perceived" that this mind is my 'Actual-Mind'. That it's not only infinite but that finite is not even physically possible and does not exist anywhere in the cosmos, and that there's no possibility of ending. Which was a very pleasant thing to DIRECTLY discover. Hmm, so if this is all physical, but a body can end, but this can not end, then that implies there is in fact an inescapable ethereal non-physical basis for the direct mind--what might be called a, "Principle of Universal Conservation-of-Living-Consciousness". It can't be created or destroyed, it can only evolve and transform. At that point the infinite perception can be given words, and turned into a mere finite-based objective thought, and a conceptual insight (as opposed to a direct insight) because the perception has been DIRECTLY confirmed (but not to you--it's innately a private insight, not one that can be published and sourced). So now I have turned that into 'knowledge', which can be remembered as a personal "experience" and anecdote. Which is to say, it is very inaccurately 'captured' as a degraded and pixilated objective 'facsimile' (a copy, of a copy, of a copy), of what was at the moment, a perfectly connected DIRECT original that can not go into my memory for later recall. What it really was, was instantly gone, all that remained are these conceptual ashes, in a distorted somewhat self-editing memory, that is prone to failure. So I have approximately stored that in memory, and it became the core of a not fully explainable indirect "perception", an indirect "insight", and an indirect cognitive "experience". But I did once have (past tense) a direct "perception" and "insight", that I am inevitably more than this physical body alone, that there is an unseen infinite mind that is the Actual-Mind 'me'. But that direct "experience", was instantaneous and live, it was never storable as a dead, decomposing conception. Perception, insight and experience can be DIRECT. But what we remember of it and still conceptually call a "perception, insight and experience" is an INDIRECT degraded, copy, of a copy, of copy. You can't see what was really there via looking at that objective mental image. The mental images all come from our imagination. And what is imagined from the direct, is always a limp, distorted, degraded copy, of a copy, of a copy, that conveys no meaning--just a copy of meaning, that conveys no actual meaning. Words fail.

[@dvdmon]

@@facsimile-io3dd 🤯🤣Not quite sure I followed you there, but maybe this will serve the same purpose as a koan, lol!

[@facsimile-io3dd]

@@dvdmon Should I care what zen is?

[@Schneebs]

I heard the title Don't Move in Papaji's voice 😅

[@renko9067]

Another great video. I totally relate to the problem of storytelling even though, as a concept, we need to use it at times to get by. Example: “No officer, I haven’t been drinking.” 😂 Question: years ago, my grandfather called my mother, and when she reached him, he handed her all his papers and said I’m dying. He went to the hospital and died that night. Advanced cancer. Recently, my wife’s father had an obstruction similar to others he’s had in the past. He was in the hospital about to undergo a routine procedure when he said to her, “I’m going to miss you.” Three days later, he was gone. I think some people can sense their life’s wave shoaling before it breaks, and I wonder if it is glimpses of unbound consciousness or non duel. What say you, Angelo?

[@anonomation]

The after can never become the before

[@katehiggins9940]

thanks for everything angelo! i feel like - i have no access to myself…… everything is felt so intensely and simultaneously like nothing is happening……. i feel the mind not able to make sense of all the words i used to use to describe how it feels to be…… now it feels like there is nothing to compare anything to and so it feels like i have no place to stand….. it feels like , well again, i can’t say what being feels like ….. i don’t know. there is no motivation to plan or even to think of the future……. mind wants to control by acting like it knows but it all falls flat …… very foggy….. does this get sharper? clearer? i feel rather blissful at times but maybe also in a fog 🤷‍♀️ if anyone wants to comment please do. i m wondering if this is “normal”. feels like i’m dropping out of life ….. 🤦‍♀️ and yes, it also feels like i can’t drop out of anything. no separation. but still feels like im evaporating.

[@nat998]

Thanks for relaying these feelings, Kate. I’ve experienced similar feelings and states of slight disorientation and disillusionment and it did indeed feel like a fog or swamp or some kind of purgatory waiting in a restless uncertainty where nothing seemed to make sense in a way I’d never questioned before. I would like to recommend a vid in the Equanimity playlist (really the entire playlist!) entitled: “How To Stop Feeling Dissatisfied.” I don’t know why, but I feel compelled to suggest it to you. 💛

[@katehiggins9940]

@@nat998 thank you for your reply. i will listen❤️

[@nat998]

@@katehiggins9940💛😊

[@just_me_melanie]

weary (tired, worn out): "weer-ee" like peer, steer wary (cautious, careful): "ware-ee" like bear, chair

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

How about leery?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I think I somehow fused leery and wary into weary 😂😂. Are you an English teacher or linguist?

[@just_me_melanie]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake haha, makes sense. I am not -- I am just very passionate, for better or worse, about certain things, like words, as well as music. and commas. thank you for lightly receiving my comment 😄

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@just_me_melanieSomeone once said to me, “If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, pronounce it loudly and someone will teach you how to pronounce it correctly.” Also works well when you say it to an audience of 15k daily views 😂

[@KK-sg5gl]

At one point you say that there’s a reality that we have five open portals to, assuming you’re talking about our five senses. But then you affirm someone’s comment on his father’s suffering not being real, and how the inevitability of death can trigger a shift. But if we can see with our eyes and hear with our ears that someone is suffering, and that they die, isn’t that reality? They were here, in pain, suffering, and if they die, they’re gone. No voice of theirs to hear anymore, no body parts moving anymore. Isn’t that real?

[@immanuelhennicker9300]

I have a question for you too :) I'm getting into the nondual non-state with absolute spontaneity, and somehow there's the wonderment about it, whether this is my natural state indeed or just an occurence (spontanious spontaneity lol) Like...will it always be like this, once the final insight comes to me? Thank you Angelo, much Love ❤

[@angelmoon8114]

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[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏🙏

[@oneom8158]

💙🙏

[@Lulubear0304]

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