Is Perception Reality?

[@hansenmarc]

2:58 consciousness is you as the thinker and the ability to think, the function of consciousness as thought and awareness of thought, as a thought object and the sense of being a thinker 3:43 in this space of consciousness, the perceived is the apparent stream of thoughts 7:17 a thought is an artificial division in what cannot be divided 7:37 it can seem at times as if there is a perceiver separating out from the perceived

[@curtisrussell5460]

Thanks!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

✨✨✨ 🌻🌻🌻 🎇🎇🎇 ⛩⛩⛩ Thank You!!

[@mitrarashidi4945]

Just downloading your app. Thanks for being so generous! God bless you! We are so grateful!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Enjoy

[@soulTC]

For some reason, sound has always seemed to be a key into a (subtle) shift in consciousness for me, even before I related it to spirituality. I don't always have access to this key, but, when I do, it works even in the noisiest of environments such as on the subway. I find it helps a lot if you gently rest your eyes on one area of the visual field as you dispassionately observe the morphing stuff of the soundscape, otherwise, your eyes are constantly flitting about, thirstily looking for new data. When you get it right, it's as if there's actually no difference between the visual and auditory - the many blurred dialogues in the subway carriage somehow are part of that dangling strap your eyes are directed towards. And, when you do get it, there are many spontaneous changes, such as in the way you're breathing The difficulty is maintaining this attention as thought inevitably tries to swarm back in again and again.

[@anncairns1099]

Anything worth pursuing is potential

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes this is why it’s important to have some shift in identity and be able to stabilize unbound consciousness as well as doing this direct sensory investigation. Without equanimity the polarities of the mind are very strung and pull attention in 😊

[@VeritableVagabond]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake To clarify, this equanimity is being cultivating on the journey before "I Am" realization?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@VeritableVagabond you can to various degrees. However it’s not until after awakening and some emotion work that it is truly realized as fluid and natural acceptance (not something you do or practice but rather just how it already is).

[@noonespecial24]

Well stated! The perceiver is only an idea. Something we've been told and believed. Not reality as experienced. Beautiful! 🙏🙏

[@cherryb33]

This was so amazing! Such great pointing. Thank you Angelo 💗

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome 🤗

[@dfordano]

Thank you Angelo!! (Your T-Shirt collection Rocks!!) In Ramana's words: 'The objective world, is in the subjective consciousness' Your videos are really good! thank you for your wisdom :))

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Rock on!

[@knishiyama]

Beautiful , really

[@nicoleperrier3840]

"I" Heard this before but didn't really get it. But just now something changed, clicked. Wow 😲 thanks🙏

[@geoffreylevens9045]

This one aroused some anxiety or subtle fear. I think that's a good thing This is the sight of one hand...🖐

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)

[@damianhardy2965]

Me too. 👌

[@KK-qd6ro]

Not sure why i'm still surprised you talk about an experience i've just had. 😄 My ears buzz a lot, but I'm not sure they hear any more. lol Last night there was a noise, I swear I heard with my stomach. But that may be just my mind needing a hearer. 😂😂 KZbin asked me for feedback on this video. 👍👍

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😎🥰☄️

[@crystalynnpitts270]

Thanks again Angelo.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

My pleasure!

[@tosvarsan5727]

I love you. I took some time to write a message below your videos. I'm so grateful I found this channel. Will you ever also add these on a podcast app? I could hear you when I go to work, when I come from work, when I cook, when train, when I walk. In any case. For me you are a reminder an important note. I would like to write more about my journey and how many of your videos are spot on. Thank you Angelo, really.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I could do that. I’ll have to investigate the best app for it

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Or best platform rather

[@Tradaxta]

The first of what i called at the time "religious" experiences I had was when listening to music (Overture to Tannhauser). It was so beautiful and I listened intently, an overwhelming rush of thoughts of birth, death and the beauty of the cycle overcame me and the floodgates of the mind broke. I remember laughing and crying at the same time and realizing that even if I were to die things could not be anything but ok. It only clicked a year and a half ago what this experience might be and I became a seeker. Always very grateful for your videos and pointers!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Beautiful, thx for sharing

[@thegroove2000]

As far as human awareness goes, reality contains two vantage points: subjective reality and objective reality. Subjective reality is the perceived reality of an individual. That which one can fathom, perceive, or experience is what is believed to be real. From this vantage point, a multitude of realities can exist simultaneously. Since no two individuals can experience reality from the same perspective, there are as many subjective realities as there are sentient beings. In the realm of subjective reality, real can be anything that has a real effect on the person who perceives it. This is due to the fact that subjective reality is a totally personal experience.

[@anncairns1099]

Thank you 💗😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome 🥰

[@amreenfatima5065]

Thank u I need this

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

welcome

[@raycosmic9019]

Being aware of being aware is beyond temporal limits.

[@mitrarashidi4945]

Thank you! That took me somewhere I haven’t been before… I wouldn’t say I understood all you said.. English is my second language.. can you please have a guided meditation for us about sounds the way you described? Deepest gratitude!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Check out my free app, Simply Awake

[@damianhardy2965]

Thank you Angelo.🙏 I was discussing sound with Violet on Thursday, and this has made it even more clear on some level. (As well as some nervous anticipation 😆)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful, keep at it , it just gets clearer.

[@adabialynicka9188]

So good. I get it now how there's no perceiver when it comes to sound

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful

[@Sofljoy]

Hi Angelo, Thank you for this. There is another question I would like us to talk about. How do we hear? We have been taught that we hear with our ears. I believe we hear with our entire body. Our habitual perception and scientific medical entrainment confirms that the ears are the auditory organs. Believing this to be our hearing technology has added to our deep entanglement to matrix. I had an experience that I can only describe as hearing with my right pinky. In other words, sound transmitted through vibration of a body part other than the hearing canal. I would love some further understanding of this available ability, that transcends common understanding of how we hear sounds.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I wouldn’t recommend simply replacing one belief with another but rather tune into the hearing so fully that there is a distinct and irreversible shift in perception

[@Sofljoy]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yes, thank you for that, many points of access. The so-called veil lifts and allows new experiences. My pinky vibrating as receptor of buzzing sounds was however a delightful surprise and reminder.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@Sofljoy !!!

[@pauldevito7476]

Unbelievable video. The sound topic is very interesting. I have tinnitus due to slight hearing loss, and I take meds which help lower the ringing in my ears. My new ENT wants me off these meds and I am resisting this. Your video here is seeming to guide me in some direction towards accepting the tinnitus. Are you saying ringing is normal? It was a little confusing. If I could learn to luve with tinnitus with no medication, that would be wonderful. Are you saying this is doable, or am I way way off the mark, Angelo??✌️🙏🙏✌️.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Definitely doable. At least worth a try. I can't know what others hear but I definitely have medical tinnitus but I don't resist it anymore so I find it just fine/enjoyable. Several people have told me they stopped resisting and it became quite tolerable. Mine is louder than most ambient soundscapes in rooms. I have same experience with some pains states I've had.

[@pauldevito7476]

Thank you Angelo. Keep doin' what you're doin'.. it's so helpful.🙏

[@7402324]

My tuning fork is quite active. Wonderful way to look at the ringing. LOL

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes for me it is usually louder than the ambient sounds in the room

[@mwesigaclement799]

I love you man!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😊

[@annab3070]

Hi Angelo, wonderful video thank you. I get triggered by certain loud noises especially traffic noise where I live where there's very loud motorbikes and cars with very noisy exhausts which lead to explosive angry reactions in me periodically. Listening to your video made me wonder if there is a way for me to be with these very triggering noises? I do wonder if it's possible as it's become an automatic fight/flight response in my nervous system but maybe there is a way I can be with it, it's quite unbearable at times.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yeah, sit in a calm way without distractions such as phone and listen to various noises. If one causes anger or frustration, really listen closely and see if the frustration or anger is actually intrinsic to the noise. "What specifically am I referencing to make me know that is annoying?" Like this :)

[@annab3070]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Many thanks for your reply, yes I will try that just listening to sounds when I'm feeling calm...and more conscious, I'm guessing It's probably something unconscious that I'm projecting out onto certain noises... 'we're never upset for the reason we think' as it says in A Course in Miracles. Thanks again Angelo :)

[@EricGross]

So there is no perceiver ... but if I listen to the sounds around me and they are heard, as you say, but them I close the window or put on headphones, then those sounds are no longer heard, so the that which hears must be "me" since I can control how sounds are heard (or perceived).

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

See how you have to think theoretically to "find" a perceiver? For instance if you stay present and the headphones are but on the sound would simply morph.

[@monicalgarcia1]

Projection makes perception ~ ACIM ❣️

[@Valérielechelledeletre]

Hello, I see you from France because I don't have such teaching in French, but with my bad english level I need listen with subtitles and this video talk to me because with a sound I approch this reality, but here I must read the subtittles and it's make me to ask you : yes it's really with sound relatively easy, but when I open my eyes why I can't perceive this reality and I always believe in that object over there , me and the object, a percevier with a distant? have you more pointers about images? thank you very much for your chanel Valérie

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I have videos on that as well perhaps I will make another today

[@Valérielechelledeletre]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I will look in the old videos if I find , thanks a lot if you will make another

[@SevillaILove]

I can't watch with that background. But listening!

[@ne14truth]

What we call a soul, is a data collector. We are its probes. Perspective creates perception, perception creates belief, and belief creates experience. The experience that belief creates for you is what you call "truth."

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

On this channel I essentially point the opposite way. First deidentify from thoughts/beliefs, then find out what you really are. Then deconstruct that and at that point it will become clear whether there is a soul, what the nature of experience, perception, and form actually is.

[@midplanewanderer9507]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I'm in a similar boat as ne14truth; lot's of preconceived notions or suspicions of reality, but there's lots of pitfalls in Inquiry if one isn't careful whilst stripping-away everything to it's core. You can get savaged by the energies invoked. I've tasted satori here and there over the years, once even heard/felt the "Silence," unbidden, as a dynamic ringing-less ringing, motionless motion (very hard to articulate that peace that surpasses all understanding) but it only lasted five minutes. Can you hear/feel the Silence right now, all the time, as a pregnant void of infinite frequency/potential from within and without? If so, lucky you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@midplanewanderer9507 there are probably just a couple fire thoughts that are holding you/or you are holding onto when you do self inquiry. They are often along the lines of “every time I get this far this happens…” or “I always get stuck here.” Or “I’m not waking up because this _____ is being experienced (sound, sensation whatever). Once you disidentify from the very “close” thoughts, often the bottom will fall out

[@MsCankersore]

Why I always say that you do need the intellect to reach what these guys are talking about. I can’t grasp whatsoever what’s being said. Why does it have to be so cryptic and convoluted

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

it feels cryptic and convoluted bc you are trying to use intellect to process what is being pointed to

[@MsCankersore]

I get that and knew you would say that but you do need the intellect to get at what you’re saying otherwise it may as well be Arabic you’re speaking in. I’m almost 4 yrs in of daily practice and can’t grasp where I’m missing the main point to allow “seeing”

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@MsCankersore Do you see how there is a strong belief there about the need to understand? That is precisely what is blocking you.

[@MsCankersore]

Nah don’t do that man haha…I get what you’re saying and again I can’t counter that except to say that one needs to understand it at some level to be able to arrive where you’re at to be able to then say what you’re saying to me about there’s a need there from my ego or the false self to understand. I’m not alone in needing to understand it to some degree otherwise I wouldn’t need to watch this video

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@MsCankersore do you see how strongly you hold that view? What would it take for you to let go of it? What would be the cost to you if you let go of that view?

[@tosvarsan5727]

Hi Angelo, do you have an exercise to do while I'm working (analytical/technical mind work in my case). I try to focus as much as I can for efficiency reasons, is that the correct approach to "awakening" while working? And what about if I'm listening to a podcast? Is there a way to use the listening of a podcast to awake (while absorbing the required information)? If it sounds silly is ok, maybe I'm trying to have the cake and eating it too...

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

try to bring in the senses while you focus, ioe sensations of the hands on objects, sensation of feet on the floor, some attention in the ambient sounds, you'll notice more and more moments when thought occupies attention unnecessarily. Be patient and work on insights outside of work and they will naturally flow over.

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏❤

[@ashdean3122]

Thank you Angelo...I fear that during a successful meditation is the only time I really have the freedom to investigate these things bc I (not sure who I mean by 'I' here really) can loosen my attachment to the trough (self) of the wave and dissolve more into the crests (sounds, etc.). For this reason, would you recommend trying to cultivate these meditative states more as a precursor to investigation, or would you recommend investigating why the sense of self is so clingy and why sounds are less captivating during non-meditative experience? Thanks!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The former :)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

once you can maintain that presence a bit more through the day (or it is naturally maintained rather) then it's easier to directly investigate dualistic tendacnies

[@ashdean3122]

Ty!

[@johnb2138]

Now thats a WOW

[@Nina-rz5ow]

How is it possible to perceive something without labeling it? I haven’t been able to do this yet? Do you have any tips?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Blindfold yourself and then have a friend place a random object in your hand like, something cold or wet or warm or round. Make sure they surprise you. Pay close attention to the experience the moment they place it in your hand and before your mind picks out a label for it. That! :) Good question :)

[@HariMSamy]

Again I have the same question that I asked under another video: When I don't even recognise something as sound, is there sound? I need to have some slice of it and refer to my memory to recognise it as sound. If such a 'recognition' is not there is there any perception?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Is that your experience?

[@Awarewolf-sc]

🙏🙏🙏

[@JoeyKastelic777]

cool panda 😎

[@The-Other-Guy]

I wish you would explain a little more about ringing in the ears as a tuning fork. what if that ringing doesn't stop and deprive you from experiencing the silence that you need as a background to all other sounds and eventually drive you crazy? how could you be conscience of something annoying and at the same time see it(or hear it) as brilliant or to be indifferent about it?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I would examine the belief that you need silence. What if there is no such thing as silence apart from sound? Also when you say “something annoying.” I would really take some time to investigate when something seems annoying where is the annoyingness? Is it actually IN the sound, person, taste, whatever we find annoying? Is it a quality of it like shape or color or tone is? Why is this sound annoying and that sound isn’t? Etc etc. keep looking at examples in your own experience abd keep an open mind. The beliefs are what is binding. Especially the belief that I have to react to xyz (both internal and external reactions). Also check out my video on annoyance if you haven’t

[@birgit8996]

Without thought there is not even perception..... just what is.....unknown....as a whole⭕ Perception is simply thoughts....also the whole....all that appears is "I"

[@birgit8996]

....but this seeing is not constant....it changes

[@birgit8996]

If there are thoughts, they don't kill anything, they only name; subdivide,what is.

[@nat998]

@@birgit8996 🎊💛🎊 love your comments!

[@birgit8996]

@Nat I just want to know who is actually commenting🤔where is that?😃

[@nat998]

@@birgit8996 "I just want to know who's commenting... Where is that?" 😉 This is exactly what I'm talking about Birgit, exactly this doubt. I don't think I have the experiential insight or direct realization to definitely say to you... No one. I think it's something you have to know beyond all doubt, with certainty. Do you feel, beyond all doubt, this is the truth as you see it? I trust what you tell me. 🙏💛😃

[@thegroove2000]

What is spiritual?.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What is your perception of spiritual?

[@thegroove2000]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I asked you the question.

[@amreenfatima5065]

Whi is creating thought and what is thought

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

what is your experience of it?

[@anncairns1099]

Sentient

[@carlavela7106]

😊💐🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😍

[@KK-sg5gl]

Yippee-Ki-Yay!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😎

[@ronjenks7234]

Ah, One Taste,--as they say. Bows to you, bro'.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

☺️

[@HeySpecimen]

Pissin' off all the deaf people 😅

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I got ones on visual and sensation fields as well.,. Perhaps I’ll do one with good where I’m talking with a mouth full and food particles are falling out everywhere

[@sjstone7337]

You do realize everything you're saying is also just part of this appearance? Which can be expressed but not understood.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

NO WAY! Seriously??

[@sjstone7337]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake lol.😀you funny.

[@jgarciajr82]

I think this is where Sam Harris got stuck with Jim Newman.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Didn’t watch that but possibly. It’s not something that’s imaginable or understandable. Doesn’t mean it’s not experienceable. It’s just like using the wrong tool for the job to try to understand non-perception. If you try to tune in a radio station with a toaster you’ll get pretty frustrated. The mind can neither make a logical understanding nor a mental image of non-perception without concluding that you’re in a coma or something 😅.

[@pchabanowich]

When Mama Hoya performs her summer morning perfume dance embalming the digs with that ancient pungent sweetness which affords no respite till after sunrise, there is only a sniffing, sighing, swooning and a plunging... nor does she restrict herself to a scent display, but is fully-armed with many pendulous clusters of pink stars, a galaxy adrift in the room! The siege upon the senses is considered and determined, confident of success.🫶

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Love it!