Self-Inquiry -- (Three Powerful Questions)

[@lucianobatista1907]

Yesterday I was observing my thoughts and it hit me that I was the one observing them. For the first time ever I felt I'm not my thoughts.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Awesome!

[@edwardkeenan7354]

there is no observer

[@Kamsa-x2w]

you are also not a observer. you are beyond

[@sachaghozzi1896]

1-What is here right now (that is not a thought) ? 6:40 2- Who am I right now when I use no thought to define my self? 6:53 3- Can I settle right now into the sense of being without thinking? 7:01 Find one question that stops the mind.

[@the_sleepy_engineer]

This video shifted me into a new layer of awakening. I had touched it in the past but lost it and didn't even understand just how long I was lost in the sphere of which is thought itself. Always trying to solve a problem, always seeking, manifesting, that's ALL thought. I felt like I was taking off my VR goggles and stepping into the real reality. No one is there. But everything is there. "I" imagine it goes much deeper, perceptions themselves are thoughts, time, space, love itself? It's scary in a way. But the house of mirrors or thought has stopped. To let that go I had to trust in myself that I'm enough, that experience alone is enough. That I don't need to narrate my experience, I already am the experience. No reaction is necessary, life just happens on its own. Once you're out of it, you instantly see it for that it is

[@TheJberrie]

Progress is accelerating from watching your videos/listening to your podcast. Feels like some kind of transmission taking place as spontaneous moments of thoughtless awareness seem to be happening more often. Much gratitude, Angelo. Love your content. 🙏🏻

[@ListenToSleep]

Thanks for that very peaceful pointing, friend!

[@joannewebb9278]

Thanks for your pointing too. Merry Christmas to you and Bodhi x

[@ListenToSleep]

@@joannewebb9278 🐕🤟💕

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome 🙏🏼

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

this is such a relief to be able to rest in this space where nothing is urgent or stressing or wanting anything from you to get solved, thought about. Often we don’t realize that such stressing demanding thought streams are nothing but thoughts and that we don’t have to engage with them. Wonderful wonderful relief. Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@kas8131]

Hard to keep up with all your content, and that’s a good thing!

[@TinyMaths]

Been experimenting with your advice on the 'basic' playlist and watching thoughts over the past few days. I'm in a new job and learning the ropes so I've felt a little bit like a fish out of water. On a few occasions, today, this thought came up: " I feel stupid ", but because I had been watching thoughts, I went immediately into my body to see there really was a feeling of 'stupidity' there. It actually felt as if I was giving a lot of weight to a thought that may not have even been true. There have been quite a few of these 'self-attacking' thoughts lately. Admittedly I've spent a huge a mount of time investing belief in those kinds of thoughts.

[@kennyburch]

Simply stunning to hear this message put so clearly

[@nevermind5228]

That’s the clearest teaching about thought, awareness, the relationship between the two 🙏

[@Oversampled]

Oh wow, thoughts just love to comment on everything that's happening right now and try to claim that it's their doing

[@mvondoom]

I recently started watching your content, after a long time with other teachers - I have to say it's hard to re-adjust one's understanding to a different teacher's terms and ways of thinking! But I've come to a place of confusion: I'm very comfortable seeing through thoughts, and resting in I Am, or just knowing myself as still awareness. But then when you suggest inquiring as to the legitimacy of the subject-object relation with things, I become uncomfortable and flabbergasted! A wave of doubt arises, and I think I don't understand. Perhaps it is better that I just rest in stillness, and not worry about understanding that. Anyway, I love your work, and thank you!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Have you read my book? Maybe be helpful

[@AlicesCoolBlueSwing]

I was on retreat about a year ago at Dharma Treasure, the late Culadasa’s place, author of “The Mind Illuminated.” There was a Therevadan monk there who looked me dead in the eyes and asked me, “Are you aware?” I answered , “Yeah. Of course.” He replied, “Can you not be aware?”

[@earlyoyster2793]

'What is here that is not a thought?' is simply powerful. THANK YOU FOR THIS!

[@cps_Zen_Run]

Yes, what remains when there is no problem to solve? When you look for a Seer, Hearer, or Thinker, what is that which is looking?

[@jimrich4192]

Jean Klein said "We are NOT the mind!" Wow, that hit me hard!!! 😅

[@marklaird4102]

Wow im slowly getting it 👍🙏

[@kenjones7719]

THIS (just this, or for that matter, THAT), is undoubtedly true.

[@kenjones7719]

Right back at ya. Love.

[@watcherofvideoswasteroftim5788]

I was reading Iain McGilchrist's book "The master and his emissary" and a sentence jumped out of the page; "The feeling we have of experience happening - that even if we stop doing anything and just sit and stare, time is still passing, our bodies are changing, our senses are picking up sights and sounds, smells and tactile sensations and so on - is an expression that life comes to us." I've started asking; "What is the feeling of experience happening?" and it really gets some things going and some things slowing! Thanks for the video!

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for sharing this, wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all

[@ice.immortal]

Every time I listen to your videos about this subject I sense this distant echo of something once known yet somehow forgotten, this faint warmth of faraway sun while standing at the exit of dark, cold cave. So awesome 👏🏻

[@sparkely1122]

Who am I right now when I use no thought or memory to define myself? 🎉woah! Instant no thought! I instantly felt beingness for the first time! Was only for a few seconds but woahhhhhhhh Nelly! Woah

[@katerinatonia7494]

Angelo, thank you so much for taking the time to create all those precious videos for all of us! I wish you the very best from the bottom of my heart.

[@Kamsa-x2w]

Thanks for the pointer to wholeness which never can not be, paradoxically.

[@sethspeaksdaily7260]

Thanks Angelo. Another gem 🙌

[@MauricioCoghi]

🙏 Thank you for this.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome!!

[@ruisoares4515]

Great video Angelo! Excellent clarification of our relationship with thoughts. Very precise.

[@anweshakar146]

Asking questions makes doubts and thoughts come up. The sense of just "Being" or just existing was there when I was playing with my birds, sitting in the sun 🌞 No thoughts :)

[@bodhiveeren]

Love it❤

[@rajwantneena]

Staying there, slowly become effortlessly 😊 thank you 🙏🏼

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

At 2:06, you say that when “we’re able to disidentify… with thoughts, then we have the opportunity to” realize that “what [we] are is not separate from thought.” But doesn’t “disidentify with” basically mean to separate from yourself (more or less)? If so, how can separating something from ourselves cause us to realize that it isn’t separate from us? What am I missing?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It would seem so right? It’s actually a two step process as o explain in my book.

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Ah alright, I’m actually reading your book now, so I’ll keep an eye out for that. Maybe I should finish reading it before watching more of these videos…

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@GumbyTheGreen1 honestly can’t remember where but I think I address it in the thoughts, inquiry and/or meditation sections

[@pixsiedoll2341]

I recognized that I'm awareness. So now what? I still feel anxious or lonely. The day I noticed I'm consciousness it felt good then next day it just felt nothing spectacular. Still thinking like before. Sorry my English isbad

[@missyhope5928]

Do you/would you put together the imagery and sound in one long play just drifting by themselves? ❄️🎼 Thank you for what you do 💙

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Maybe so :)))

[@lauriethiboutot6971]

Angelo...when you and so many others talk about the "pushing and pulling" What exactly do you mean??

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Maybe i'll cover in a future video

[@jamestrover6851]

Hi Angelo, I'm hoping you read this and reply. I'm on the self enquiry practice in your book On the look for the me in the thought I keep running Into the me being my body. I keep getting that. How do I get through this? I think of an event, a thought of an event that happened to me and I ask through self enquiry who is the me it applies to in immediate present. The answer I get is I apply to me as it happened to my body How to overcome? . Many thanks

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

When your eyes are closed what is the nature of “I am my body ?”

[@JessBess]

so do we share this imaginary world? it seems so real because we can share memories and remember the past

[@James-mk8jp]

If attention is not a thought, how/why is a thought able to trigger a move in attention?

[@carinflames]

When i ask these questions and look into the "conscious space" I sometimes get a rumbling sensation in my head, It doesn't feel too unusual, I also get a similar sensation when I do a large yawn. But I feel I can encourage this sensation to happen. Should I encourage it, discourage it or neither - just let it come and go? Thks

[@cps_Zen_Run]

Flames, you are already Awaken, but the “doing“ and seeking might be inhibiting the clarity. Allow. Accept Just This. Peace.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Take a neutral stance and don’t even label it

[@JessBess]

so in a way do thoughts create an imaginary world?

[@georgeshepherd3381]

3rd question: "what is the airspeed of a laden swallow?"

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

northern or southern?

[@georgeshepherd3381]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thinking I'd like to see the spinal tap/best in show crew do a bit on retreats!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@georgeshepherd3381 well I don’t do spinal taps usually just place spinals. But OB occasion the ER can’t get them so they call me :p

[@georgeshepherd3381]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake back in the mid 80s I underwent medical treatment involving examining CNS fluid which meant getting spinal taps. So I knew what they were when I heard the name "Spinal Tap"! Christopher Guest and co are hilarious!

[@Giatros89]

6:28 3 questions

[@georgeshepherd3381]

How can anything happen without everything else happening at the same time?

[@jimrich4192]

Just LISTENING stops my mind...for a moment! 😂

[@pandmantom]

Serious question. Are you going to have more dancing dinosaurs at the end? ...please?

[@infinitenothingness]

⚫️

[@ramasatyanarayan9887]

With my great respects to your efforts, it's purely my opinion that when you talk about teachers viz Rupert spira, Eckhart tolle I would request you to please exclude Sadguru. Your opinion and that of others may be very different. As I mentioned it's purely my opinion and my suggestion.

[@josephschulz5256]

I’ll say it again. You have got to be loosing your most sincere people with that crazy la la music in the back ground. Reality is just your straight talk without the la la music.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Nah, you’re one of the very few voices that criticizes it. Many more than you compliment it and say they love it. When I occasionally do one without I get messages saying it’s not the same without it.

[@josephschulz5256]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake oh well thank you very much for your response. We are all different on certain levels. Much appreciated of what you had to say .

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@josephschulz5256 All good. I have recently made a playlist called “no music” I’ll occasionally do one without and tag it to that playlist. Over time there will be a lot in there that have no background sound. Thx for your comments.

[@josephschulz5256]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake And thank you for responding. 👍

[@josephschulz5256]

@@mat.se57 we are all different. I am very attentive to what he says and with the music in the background, it makes it harder to focus on what he is saying. I guess it’s just me!

[@suze.c]

[@34ginanicole]

For some reason I couldn’t follow along with this one. 🫠