Q and A | What is Awakening?

[@Kim-sherie]

I can attest to not needing to know anything about awakening. I had an awakening and had no idea what it was. I wasn’t seeking it or knew anything of the sort was possible. I did know something wasn’t right about life though. I started asking questions after my awakening happened and a Buddhist monk somehow showed up in my life and explained what happened. Sometimes I think the more we know about this the harder it is to grasp. The knowledge that is gathered before awakening needs to be heard in thoughts like background music.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Exactly this 👆🏻

[@VeritableVagabond]

So clear! I need to show this video to everyone I talk spirituality with. It's thankfully so simple and I'm so grateful that it's really possible to wake up!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It absolutely is!

[@patricialamson7944]

Thank you Angelo!! Thought jail. I feel like I’m there most days. When I sit down to meditate and I feel nothing and everything (which is really cool), from the corner I see another thought forming. I noticed It’s getting easier to recognize. Thanks you are helping me on my journey. Can you make another guided meditation?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're welcome. Do you know about the guided meditation app? Simply Awake. It's free.

[@patricialamson7944]

No, I didn’t know. Found it! So excited 😆

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@patricialamson7944 both apple and android

[@kth6321]

Apparently when I was around 4 or 5 years old I was incessantly asking my mom “what’s making me talk?” My mom got books from the library about anatomy etc…but I wonder if that was the beginning of my separation 🤷‍♀️… thx for these opportunities to return to “awakeness” ❤️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I love it! Kids are so intuitive and brilliant!

[@NonDual1799]

what a beautiful question. That in itself is inquiry

[@richmac6345]

I need to hear this and I'll need to hear it again regularly to keep the focus on "finding out who am I" rather than "what is awakening." Thanks Angelo ❤ I'm so grateful

[@briantomoconnor]

Thanks!

[@chadkline4268]

I am very impressed by the commenters. Wow, most all of you are so intelligent and insightful. I hope you all get what you're looking for. I am new to SAA, but what an amazing teacher! It's very nice seeing everybody trying to help each other. If there ever was a good time to learn this stuff, it is now. We never know when we may get another opportunity.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome ☺️

[@nat998]

Being present/still, there's acceptance that all is as it should be and there is peace knowing there's no need to change anything. Mind only knows conceptual frameworks and seeking is its function and drive. What the miracle is and what the mind will never be is able to be present to life itself. The mind wants to be, wants to experience but it can't so it invents a way through which it can exist but it's only an indirect second-hand "existence". Keep practicing being still and present❤️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Very well said

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for this sharing, to guide us here. Love and courage to all beings.

[@Leena1234-j3c]

Thank you

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're welcome

[@Rickpa]

I think the expectations of "awakening" are different. There's a wide range from a glimpse, to arhatship, to bodhisattvayana, realization of emptiness, nature of mind, and annutara samyak sambodhi.

[@julian9898]

Are you trained in NLP or hypnosis? Ive been watching your videos (and bought your book!) and it seems like youre trying to induce a mild trance (which isn't a bad thing -- it can help with deep learning -- im just curious)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I'm not.

[@carynroll4725]

Dear Angelo, Who am I? xox Caryn

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Such a great question

[@chadkline4268]

Is it equal to keep asking 'who am I?' compared to looking at everything and saying 'i am not that!' ? Eg, I am the observer, not the observed?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

They can both lead to the same place. Seth Neti neti one can lead themself to a sort of disassociation so as I describe in my book it’s best to love toward instead of away from as you disidentify

[@richmac6345]

Awakening, is when that "seeking" and on going process of redefining the self in a cognitive way/in a mental way, stops... long enough that identity can disentangle itself from the thoughts. THAT is what it is! It seems as though we have to get close to it through education (reading your book for example) and contemplating it and putting in the work (meditation, developing concentration and detachment from desire and fear?)... Most people who have awoken appear to have put in hundreds or thousands of hours of study, contemplation and meditation? Rare is the person who awakens without much effort?

[@davidgvincent123]

yeah I would just like to awake please!!! this makes me laugh from my belly. Like somthing just shifted and it makes me laugh. What the heck is going on right now. This is crazy just listen to like two videos and all of a sudden I feel like somthing just took place.

[@Carlalove1234]

At this rate it could be a good idea to put my brain in a pickle jar 😂

[@seancasey98]

I sit eyes closed and watch my thoughts. As 'I' observe them and recognise them to be just thought stuff, I hear myself saying inside my head 'that's just a thought Sean', but now I'm unsure can I trust this inner dialogue? This inner voice that I confer with all the time. The voice that constantly gives me a running commentary on my life, or are these thoughts in disguise? Is this 'self talk'?, love to hear your thoughts on this Angelo 🤔 or any of your viewers come to that, do any they wonder about this voice? Should I try to let's the thoughts pass and remain mentally passive and quiet as possible?

[@nat998]

Hi Sean, that inner voice is something I've too experienced when stilling the mind. I think it's yet more thoughts about a thought, in the guise of a narrator type watching perceiver to the original thought/idea. Meta-thinking being observed. What I'm noticing is that as soon as I practice direct sensing (sense sound for eg) my mind will try take what is being heard and create an explanation or story around it. Then an idea that seems to be "mine" will crop up about what is happening. That inner dialogue is thought stream but it does seem to be subtly different to a thought. It seems to present itself as a "inner self" identity structure. But, for eg, in the what is simply being heard experiment , there's only the sound itself to tune into - and anything other than what is heard is a thought I think? What comes before the thought about what is being explored? That's what we need to tap into because it's dimension less and has no descriptor! Interesting question! 😊 The mind is like a hall of mirrors!

[@seancasey98]

@@nat998 lol 😂, thanks Nat. My head hurts 🤕 'thinking' about it. I will inquire into it next time I have a moment. I'll let it talk and will try not agree or disagree with what it says. Just try to observe the voice I guess. Many thanks 😊

[@nat998]

@@seancasey98 hehe 😜 that's what I try to do!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Ok so when you notice a thought as a thought you are right on track. This is true even if you voice it internally, “That’s a thought.” No problem. Now……. Which thought is actually catching you? Which thought are you identifying with? This is critical with this method. It’s in your question. You even state that you are identifying with it. You said “I’m unsure can I trust my inner dialogue…” that’s feels like you doesn’t it? Not like it’s a thought, but rather that “You” are actually wondering that. That’s the next thought…. Oh! ‘I wonder if I can trust my inner dialogue’ is JUST ANOTHER THOUGHT! Ok great! What’s the next thought? Then become alert and watchful. Does that make sense ?

[@KK-qd6ro]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake All thoughts are thoughts, agreed. As we inhabit a human world of words and often disconnect from our senses, if the I am sensed danger and the me was only connected to words, would not words be used by the I am ?? ; o )