How Awake Are You? -- Use this Simple Test to Find Out!

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About my videos: These videos are a resource for anyone wishing to wake up from the dream of separation. Awakening, enlightenment, and liberation are becoming far more mainstream possibilities than they once were. There are many good teachers out there, and if you resonate with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, or Sadhguru, you might find resources here that address these deeper promptings to investigate your true nature.
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[@Koort1008]

Show me an awakened person. Show me an unawakened person. Both the awakened and unawakened are part of a dream - the dream of being someone. There never was a person. Unborn and without knowledge.

[@Jaccobtw]

I think this describes the awakening “I” had!

[@jitkawentskating2096]

Hearing, may be for the first time. Wow. No hearer, no commentator, just the sound. Spacious, infinite, free. Everything is the same as before, but the perspective. Thank you ❤

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Awesome

[@stelladonnelly2832]

I can see how often I am in my head, but I see the difference. I remember an experience of a good few years ago, I woke up in the night, but I was in that inbetween state, not fully awake but aware of being in bed. It was raining heavily and I'm listening to the sound on the roof, but it was as if I was hearing it inside my body, in me, I was it. It was so utterly peaceful., til I drifted back into sleep.

[@niloc1414]

I gotta stop believing I am the bodymind that hears. All happening in awareness.

[@riznah]

That sound happened to be my dog barking and oh my that’s a tough one to disidentify from!!

[@anicca581]

The sound is Me. I Am the Sound. It is fulness. Thickness. No words to explain

[@teresascott1648]

The sound you have in the video makes me sleepy/bliss out/go into it. Thank you for your videos!

[@hansenmarc]

Test summary: listen to a sound and ask yourself, where is that sound? 0:28 listen to a sound 1:04 ask yourself where you believe that is, and why? 1:21 alternatively, does it feel like I am something primary and that sound is happening to me (out there somewhere and I’m the hearer or receiver of it)?

[@Koort1008]

There is no pass or fail or scale for who you are. It is not needed. There is not any person that exists and therefore, could never take even one step closer to what is. There is no scale from here to there. All that exists in the dream of a dream character. This is it, and I do not know what it is. Always. For no one.

[@gribwitch]

WHAT ???

[@Koort1008]

@@gribwitch Good question.

[@Morgan313]

@@gribwitch I’m interpreting this to mean that no one can be a success or failure, and there is no way someone can be “falling behind” in this dreamworld called life.

[@weitingl]

In what is heard, there is only the heard! Great practice!

[@AbscentOrange]

Wow, well, what this teased out was how that ‘dialogue’ is SO integrated. I was walking in the woods and I couldn’t hear sound without the directional quality to it, left side or right side… in front or behind. The sounds were automatically packaged with those directional/ spatial qualities because it was heard louder in one or the other ear. I could resist labels of ‘woodpecker’ and ‘blue jay’ but the mind seems like it is seamless with direction. What’s up with that??

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Practice and you might be surprised how much it clarifies

[@AbscentOrange]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake

[@mkenoyer]

This video was exactly right for me exactly now. Thank you very much. When focusing on the background ringing, I was able to intuit, that I tried to turn off my hearing at age because of bullies laughing at me. This resulted in a constant tension pattern in my face and abdomen. I have always been hyper sensitive to sound and now I know why and it’s gone.

[@billbadiha9836]

I hear sound like an echo in endless darkness that can’t be located when attention is focused in a relaxed way.

[@stoicafanel]

,,,,there îs no space ,,?,,,just sound !____pure living,,,,/my imagining World start to fade away,,,Thank You

[@ronmcfarlan3159]

My introduction to meditation came in the form of a book from the 70's called "Getting There Without Drugs". Maybe dated now (I did keep my library copy but haven't looked back since then). The very first exercise was "Say you notice a garbage truck going by on the street. What is it you notice? What are the assumptions you leap to and images you conjure because you believe that's what you are hearing?" It is a subtle but powerful practice and certainly one of my first steps to insight and true mindfulness.

[@IAn0nI]

Great title.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Love it

[@ActionFigure10]

This feels like a transmission on a wordless level as well. Very impressive

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thinking hypnotic techniques depend on "the subject" constructing a story based on incoming stimulus ..

[@akaherbgirl]

"There is no emitter"... Wow that was... I do not have words for that. Thank you (once again)

[@gribwitch]

Of course there's an emitter. If there's a dripping tap for example, then you hear the water drop hitting the bathtub. Simple. Why make a simple action so complicated ?

[@ibrahimsky]

Thanks, Angelo! Can’t wait for a video about the feeling of being in a body

[@MrSkailes]

Thanks!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thank You!!

[@RLWarrior]

That was like eating a bean burrito and hanging out in an anechoic chamber

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂😂

[@tamaracrawford9703]

It's tricky. Maybe because I have significant hearing loss on one side, my brain has rewired itself to zero in on location and direction of sound. It wants to be very specific about sounds and where they come from and what is causing them. Takes up a lot of energy. But listening to ringing, humming, etc helps, maybe because they are less locatable, I don't know. When I listen, it's clear that the sound is nowhere, although it feels like everywhere!! Perhaps more accurate to say no location, or location is irrelevant.

[@serenish626]

Thanks for pointing out there are gaps free of processing.

[@snakedogman]

The music in your video was the only sound I could focus on 😅

[@VeritableVagabond]

I laughed out loud when you called out those doubting thoughts there were going on in my mind. 😂😅

[@khalilhamdi7424]

I'd like to first take a moment to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation for what you do, thank you. One of the biggest challenges I have discovered during this journey, is that I'm way too mind-identified. I catch myself constantly deeply absorbed into thought, even the most subtle forms of thought. But it's more of an addiction like you mentioned. I take the chance to "step back" into what it is, whenever I get it. This video deeply resonated with me. I can also relate to everything you said. Thank you for pointing out those "traps" back into the mind. It feels like my mind constantly evolves into more subtle forms the more I'm aware of its mouvement. It would be great if you can talk about this one day! Have a great one.

[@SamBellGuitar]

Its so simple. Yet, even when there is just suchness, there's a subtle sensation of shifting attention, its like a camera on auto focus constantly picking up different objects in its field of view.

[@atmian]

Thoughts, concepts and the sense of me and you are all essential tools to live a useful and creative life on earth. Without those faculties you would just be reduced to an animalistic state satisfying the immediate needs of the body based on sensory input.

[@life13525]

valuable pointing, thank you Angelo

[@VeritableVagabond]

The way you framed this video really had me hooked and investigating/feeling into this moreso than the other nondual sound videos. Thank you!

[@Stefan69whatever]

Powerful practise indeed! It seems far easier to meditate with sound than with the visual field. Just listening, it seems to be easier to be open without grasping at anything. Apologies, but it almost feels like male-female nuances, vision being more male.

[@johnnywlittle]

This is a good pointer. Really enjoyed.

[@KK-qd6ro]

Cool afirmation thanks. 🙏❤

[@SquiredCircle]

when we look at a grand landscape, our thinking mind takes too much time to take the image and process it in a logical form. we are awed, only because we are not processing the information. we are awed only when we have the raw experience itself

[@jasongeyer2111]

The way you went about this exercise made it super clear what is meant. Seriously, this is the clearest I've ever seen this excersize done ❤❤❤

[@gribwitch]

"Super clear" ??? You reckon ?

[@ada7180]

I can tell without any tests - not awake at all! :-D

[@goych]

I’m sure you’re more along the path than you realise! You don’t show up to these videos for the giggles!

[@user-wv4lq7op4u]

Amazing❤ Thanks Angelo🙏🏻

[@cps_Zen_Run]

Our perceptions are conduits but doesn’t identify the form, sound, or touch. This is done by different brain regions and then a composite fabrication is presented as a simulation of reality in our consciousness. But who really knows? LOL 😊

[@snakedogman]

Maybe we're in a simulation of a simulation.

[@rayrayray4116]

Powerful stuff One can do the same with a fart. Or the bloom of lilac. They are one and the same. Yet this example does not translate as well over KZbin. So one must be present and live in the moment to experience the moment. Love this stuff, keeping it real

[@ami156]

Hey Angelo here's an interesting question and I bet other people are curious too. What happens when the body dies?

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thank you! This is great! Listening again!

[@demogadget]

good one!

[@joolslorien3936]

Thank you ❤ By being really consciously aware of the difference from hearing a sound through mind, that lets me know when there’s some doubt! I have a habitual shrinking away from sensations that were experienced as “too intense” but without doubt and resistance the intensity becomes interesting, nuanced and joyful. The difference between heaven and hell can be so subtle!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Indeed! These subtle insights are everything

[@KiwikimNZ]

Wow, I felt nothing, I thought nothing, the sound is just the sound, I did not want to even think about where, what, how, when, why. I just sat with the ringing in my ears. It’s just a sound…,

[@HiluT]

❤the background works on me this time 😊 I just replaced the sound with visuals

[@sandraellis3878]

Brilliant Angelo! Just what I needed to be reminded of!And at the bit where you said I must do this again because it works, was what I was actually thinking as you said it!! ☺️🤭 love your input 🤗🙏👌 We’ve been exploring a lot on our group guided ‘questioning meditations’ with The Mindful DJ’ on KZbin and via zoom and recognising when we are coming from thoughts and mind, as opposed to coming from ‘being and pure experience’ so this was great! Thankyou 👌

[@adamishaq9184]

I hear the silence which has sound and I hear the sound which has silence.

[@dreamycalculator]

the sight version is more amazing

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Hmm. Invent an "awake-ometer".like the tricorder on Star Trek. Thank you liking this!

[@tahchridaya]

So many have been awakened by pure sound as it is global, often sudden and not expected so there is no prior defense. Bankei used it as a way for his students to enter the unborn.

[@gloriousjake9138]

If you look closely into the center of his forehead, you can feel him grasping for zen memories

[@pedroluizsouzapinto1980]

Answer is 42

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

42

[@noamkahlon7704]

What?

[@pedroluizsouzapinto1980]

@@noamkahlon7704 that's a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[@GooglePlusPages]

The answer isn't the important part...the question is.

[@noelleblanc4473]

Thanks.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're welcome

[@djszal]

I feel called out 4:50

[@trevorfurness5695]

Time fills space as a child blows bubbles in soapy liquid on a loop- where is the child now, where are the bubbles now?

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

Here’s something I’ve been wondering: If consciousness plays no part in sound (or other nondual perception), how is it able to store reflections of that sound in memory and replay it from memory?

[@themindfuldj320]

Who says consciousness plays no part in sound? Speaking of an object called sound as separate and distinct ‘from’ consciousness means the question already assumes duality and precludes from looking at the immediacy of our experience as it is. Try focusing on consciousness and then moving from simply hearing to consciousness, back to hearing. Where is consciousness in terms of location in relation to hearing. Can you find a point where consciousness ends and hearing begins? Stay with what experience tells you, don’t start mentally analysing. 🙏🏻

[@novafamily8430]

I love your channel. Thank you for helping me refind my spirituality. I am on this iourney now again. Where did you get your T-shirts?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

different places. Into the AM is pretty good.

[@weikopfseeadler3528]

What excersise would you recommend for someone who can not hear, a deaf human? Any bodily sensation I suppose?

[@SKLightenUpNow]

What an enjoyable video! Thank you! We're in a soup of vibrations. (and made of vibrations, too!) Then we have those lovely sensory organs, that perceive but a few of those vibrations, some as "light" and "color", some as "sound", some as "solid" even! ... We are already at the level of labeling here. A bit remote from the pure fact of "vibration"... (or rather, the interaction of certain vibrations with our own vibrations...) e.g. A certain vibration interacts with our ears - which are also vibrations - and we perceive "a sound"... Then our brains catalog that sound - so fast. (that has survival value, obviously)... Then comes the blah blah blah... the interpretations, the evaluations, etc. Then... the observation of the blah blah... ... and as Gary Weber says in his fab book "Evolving beyond Thought", if you keep digging, there is nothing there. "Ayi! Patati aham!" wrote Ramana Maharshi. (the house of cards has fallen, the illusion of an "I", poof!) For fun, a great sound for the practice you suggest is: get some dry ice (in the country I live in, if you buy ice cream, they often give you dry ice) and put it in a glass of water, and LISTEN! gloop and glop and glup. A whole Universe...

[@mtotheptothed]

I’m convinced I won’t get this without some kind of shift - so I don’t know why I bother asking. Experientially I can get there - no direction, no source need be tied with the experience of the sound. But what are we saying concretely- there is no drum that is being hit by a stick causing sound waves to hit my ear drum? Or do we say that’s what’s happening on a relative/material level? Or do we say it’s neither that nor not that? I don’t see how we can say one is more true than the other, and in fact I feel my experience can be more easily tricked than what’s happening on a concrete level. I can smell there’s a hamburger on the table in front of me, yet when I open my eyes it’s just a clear liquid of hamburger fragrance made to flavor some fast food burger. I have trouble trusting this place of non-self/non-concept as being truer than “the sound is coming from the speaker in the room off to the right”. How am I stuck?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Well quote simply you’re doing a lot of thinking. This is what, as you rightly said, the first shift is critical, non-dual realization is quite subtle so doesn’t come until after the first insight has matured a bit.

[@No-self_No-problem]

🙏

[@keithoyoung34]

Can this be applied to seeing? Like the colors and shapes themselves don’t tell me they are colors and shapes? Thanks Angelo.

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@MariaLoysen]

Back to basics 💜 Just this, is all. So simple. So beautiful. So uncomplicated. It seems never enough for our culture, but, it is life . . . Fully Amazing ✨️

[@marykavanagh531]

Yes i believe the sound is happening to me it seems like its a punishment because it is their fault for making noise and disturbing my peace of mind .when i hear the noise my quick response is to bang something to get them to stop..letting them know excuse me but im here so stop

[@Ballsmasher69420]

To the ringing in my ears the answers were: - I don't know where it is - it is around my head somewhere in space - direct listening to it - oh I forgot, yes, it appears to me 🤣 Hey I both failed and not, what do I get?

[@mat.se57]

Heres your cookie: 🍪

[@James-mk8jp]

Is awakening then the moment this shift in perception from “over there” to “always right here” becomes the default? Or when that shift is first realized? I can see how the latter would be a “holy shit” moment for someone that has never experienced it, akin to the feeling of “waking up.” I know getting lost in the concepts is the last thing you want, but I want to make sure I am not overlooking the shift because I expect more from it.

[@CJ-ff1xq]

View - your intellectual understanding Experience - you experience something once Realization - you're doubtless. The experience becomes your baseline. It's how you experience the world at all times

[@CJ-ff1xq]

but ultimately, even after all this, nothing really changes except your perspective. which makes a huge difference.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The book goes deeply into this subject. Otherwise just check out the basics of awakening playlist

[@johnsquabbler3112]

Honestly, I'm perfectly aware of what thoughts say about the sound by way of explanation, but believe/disbelieve them? That isn't necessary. Also, there is the kind of raw experience that isn't explained in any cognitive way. But that's been the case life-long. The dimensional has always been a conceptual overlay. It's not like this rather than that. It's always Also/And. But, kind of in the background - there's no foreground to compare it to but it's still the only word - it's all the experience of me - just different focuses of attention suitable to whatever is needed now.

[@bundydryandlime]

This isn't a test, more like a form of guided meditation

[@coreybell6297]

Much love from Williamsport Pennsylvania WWG1WGA WORLDWIDE 🐸

[@PinkyBar374]

😮❤

[@buddymc]

What does it mean if there are no thoughts? If there's just hearing, just seeing? Being in silence for extended periods?

[@colton_936]

Meaning does not exist there. Or its better to say, meaning exists only in thought.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes correct , just hearing, just seeing

[@wolfgang4468]

What can I do when I become extremely tired and fall asleep in no time with every attempt to inquire or meditate? I think it's a defense mechanism, unfortunately so strong that I can't help it. Any advice or ideas?

[@CJ-ff1xq]

Nice video but most clickbaity title ever! 😆 There's just sound sound-ing. No one external hearing.

[@karenthue8978]

I dont know why I am wondering about this, but when you are out with friends or at a party, do you like to talk about these topics, or just casual stuff? Do you Get tired of people sharing their stories with you and asking?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I only talk about it if someone asks or I’m making content. No I never get tired of it ❤️

[@lielrad]

So where's the test?

[@lindayameen8954]

I love this. The sound is . The sound has no information or descriptors in “it”Those are add ons 😮. So clear.

[@renakmans3521]

Is this a trick question? Every time I try to focus on the external sound I hear the sound that’s coming from your video…it’s making this experiment difficult IMO:-)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The sound from the video is also sound ;)

[@renakmans3521]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Haha, I was just giving my 2 cents as I couldn’t focus on outside sound w this sound. I’ll try again:-)

[@Tradaxta]

First

[@apothecurio]

Ah shit. (Sincerely an Audio major where literally everything he does is the exact opposite of this for a living)

[@azcactusflower1]

YodangelO 🥰 Oopsie no 🤭 identity 🤗

[@joedellatorre31]

shhh. AAAH! shhh. AAAH! 😌😧😌 LOL.

[@RyanMolkentin]

Hmm, I see you did not like my comment earlier as it has been removed :( Anyways, I like what you're doing here on KZbin even if you don't like what I'm doing down here in the comment section.

[@AliveClint]

What did you say?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Probably just got filtered bc of a link or looks like a link, I didn’t remove any

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

I doubt Angelo deleted your comment. Sometimes, KZbin’s algorithms (or glitches maybe) delete them. It’s happened to me on other channels where the channel owner apologized and said that it just happens sometimes.

[@RyanMolkentin]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake shoot, it was a link. That makes sense

[@user-jb9ep5cj8o]

Still don’t understand you

[@gribwitch]

What the fuck is he talking about ? No wonder this spiritual stuff is so difficult to access. Was there supposed to be a test in there somewhere ?

[@EnlightenedCarnivore]

Divine Entertainment. Miracle-Movie. Nothing / Everything. On & on & on...it's only ever THIS...NOW...♾ 👊😎 (And the latest Avatar flick is Awesome! 😄)