Balance is Critical in Deep Realization

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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.
Disclaimer: The information presented in these videos is not meant to diagnose or treat any psychiatric or medical illness. The inquiries presented herein are potent and can have powerful effects on the way you experience yourself and reality. If you feel you are at risk of harming yourself or others, these videos and practices may not be the best thing for you at the moment. Seek help wherever necessary which might include a hospital emergency department, a suicide helpline etc.

[@adamtaylor5166]

“When one mind rest undisturbed, then nothing in the world offends.” -Literally changed the whole trajectory of my day 🙏

[@Twobytee]

Adyashanti says "it's not just nothing and everything. It's no one, everyone, and someone. The third part completes it"

[@AshleyStuart]

Nothing to add except I'd love a Part 2! Thank you, Angelo!

[@bethhayes1]

Wow, Angelo. This talk totally nailed, or unnailed, ALL of the ramblings and carrying on of all the fixations!! Spot on!!

[@katehiggins9940]

yes to part 2!!

[@justinjacques4341]

Thank you! Please do more if you have the time.

[@Jhawk_2k]

Would definitely appreciate more if this, felt very direct

[@Twobytee]

I think it's important not to deny the human experience. Nirvana and samsara are one and the same. Your clarification on the no-Self experience was important for me to hear. I think I've viewed no-Self as an "ultimate" realization for a while now. That's just another form of reification

[@life.withkyle]

Same, a talk Angelo gave a while back clarifying that suffering is enlightenment, nirvana is samsara was so powerful to me. Led to so much freedom and spontaneity as this clarified for me

[@mpavoreal]

Please do continue!, this pointing feels so stunningly alive. It will be great to hear your insight into any suttas.

[@will4486]

This was really good, Angelo, I’d def listen to part 2

[@Durga695]

It's rather challenging to be in heart of a bloody war and not take sides, I fully accept that both sides are so disconnected from their true nature. Yet being the recipient of volleys of missiles leads me towards supporting the country I live in...at least for now.

[@jadmourad4025]

How so? pls elaborate

[@mistihooten2682]

I’m here. All I want to do is run from everything you have said.

[@lynlavalight]

Yes! Please do more on this. I've listened to this 6 times. 😊

[@Samuel96889]

Freedom is like looking both sides of the street at once

[@SimplyAwakeLLC]

I would also love a Part II. In fact, if you offered a special online retreat in the deep realization, sign me up. I have been looking for clear teachings on the deeper realization for a long time. Even Adyashanti, when I worked with him in the 2016-2017 period at retreats and in his books and recordings, didn't say anything as clear that I could relate to. As someone who has been teaching this (at more initial awakening levels and then Shadow work levels) for a good while, you are offering an astounding clarity that I haven't seen before. That's why I recently became a Founding Member. Wonderful work, Angelo, and gifted teaching. Thank you so much. Jon

[@lukystaify]

cannot wait for the part 2 and the sutta, really great to listen to the commentaries and classics, and then enjoy the transmitting from you, when i focus on the radiant aspect it does soften, sensations and senses, and then it just reveals itself when i rest there

[@heartsablazeyo]

Wow! Loved this one! Felt my heart laughing happily throughout.

[@Gettingclaudia]

Love the embodiment of spontaneity as you looked for the reference

[@MelFinehout]

How the hell do you come along right after I have an insight and clarify it!?!? It feels statistically impossible. I was just looking at “this” a week ago and pondering this, in different words when I asked myself “how do I believe it? How to we believe it?” Speaking of the illusion. By how, I meant specifically what happens that results in mind identification? I saw that it’s what you are calling “preference” and what I labels “not this”. Any “not this” thought/feeling coming about triggers a feeling that “at a time that isn’t now, I want to have something that isn’t this, so I must act in space across time so that “later” will be better than this”. And this entire process seems to be what self IS. When it’s absent so is the “self” and when it’s engaged self appears. (This is what I saw, as I watched the world (of thought, my “life”) come back into being. Preference is all it is. Truly. Amazing. And amazingly persistent! Like, will I ever NOT have that coming and going?

[@katehiggins9940]

“when one mind rests undisturbed…..” i was so with you there angelo……. i love this video…….. it’s so beautiful to see you disappear and appear ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Elijah_Al-Naysaburi]

Thank you very much شكرا جزيلا لك ⚘️✨️🥰💕

[@louisevs9152]

Thank you Angelo. Excellent and precise. Much recognition, sometimes surprising. And yes, if there is more, I'll be happy to listen again ❣

[@martinspiering5817]

Wonderful recitation and summary of how to balance attraction and aversion to no-thingness/no-self (emptiness) and dissolve fixations. Nagarjuna (whose work is one of my fixations) also said it well: "By a misperception of emptiness a person of little intelligence is destroyed. Like a snake incorrectly seized or like a spell incorrectly cast." I think in a committed, long-term practice, it's to be expected to be "bitten" by emptiness at least once (not because it's a real thing with teeth, but because the grasping mind makes it into one). So it's always wise to have a potent antidote handy (loving-kindness practice, loved ones who tweak our nose, a reputable teacher, therapy, etc.).

[@YannickHeym]

Brilliant, thanks!

[@AlexanderSamarth]

It sure seems like very few people, even among the most advanced, who are truly free from fixation, and only you, Adyashanti and Frank Yang seem to be talking about this point most. This resonates the most with where I'm going.

[@life.withkyle]

Agreed, for me, of all teachers or people who talk about this, those are the 3 that have always stood out so clearly. So clear and obvious that there is zero fixation

[@qualqualie1518]

What do you mean by fixation? It’s not clear to me that it’s possible for any human being to not have blind spots, triggers, conditioning, etc, even if these things get more subtle over time. But maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean.

[@AlexanderSamarth]

​@@qualqualie1518 there is no point where you can stop paying attention, you're always looking out for more and more subtle delusion, as Adyashanti says, or more and more subtle points of fixation, as Angelo might say. However, the vast majority of non dual teachers out there are strongly fixated in 1) being identified with awareness/consciousness.. think of Rupert Spira & co. 2) fixated in onenness or the big Self (can't think of an example now) 3) fixated in not-self - almost every neo-advaita teacher, everyone of the "uncompromising message" bunch, I'm thinking David Carse, or more recently, Suzanne Chang seems to be gravitating towards that. Of course, such fixations may fall at any point. And by the way, they may all be greatly useful for someone, I have found many of them beneficial, they're all realized to some extent, but eventually it was seen that very few do not fixate, my favorites being Sri Nisargadatta, Angelo and old school Adyashanti (he seems to not be talking about much of interest these days, not sure what's going on). P.S. Ultimate Right View (buddhism) is holding no view whatsoever. Fixation refers to fixed view. These views may be useful as training wheels, as using a thorn to remove a thorn, but all views are thorns ultimately.

[@sharonhepburn5804]

Part 2 please!

[@QueSeraSera-f3s]

… and ‘the universe’ is part of the story also❤

[@pchabanowich]

So powerful a teaching!

[@maloryhope6075]

Thank you❤

[@Elijah_Al-Naysaburi]

The road contains traces of walking A trace of golden nectar Luminous and refreshing texture💕🥰✨️⚘️

[@renko9067]

That was fantastic. Thank you.

[@khalilhamdi7424]

Right on time. Thanks for calling me out, It's tough to see one's own blind spots.

[@dethtrain]

Angelo's guide to being a gray jedi

[@healingaurasfamily5366]

I appreciate your eloquence, very helpful

[@justinlaplante8334]

Love it! Thanks! Want to add my vote to doing more of this at some point :)

[@lonnipounsford4838]

Just great, Angelo! Thanks so much. It cleared up some confusion here. ❤

[@julia.rhiannon]

This is amazing, so much clarity thank you.

[@Lulubear0304]

This was amazing 🤗

[@exercisethedemons]

❤ Where can we read this? Hsin- Hsin Ming? Which Sutta? I enjoyed this very much!❤

[@darbydelane4588]

❤️No remainder = total intimacy❤️

[@qualqualie1518]

This definitely resonates in a simple, unspoken way. The word “spontaneity” feels very right, and seems to touch into this very well. It simply appears as completely natural expression, without any need for the happening to be any particular way. It really does appear to just be “this”, however “this” happens to arise in the moment. “This” is completely self-sufficient, self-evident, and has infinite capacity for all of experience. I thought for the longest time that this was something “special” that needed to be attained, but in a way, this is playing out like the slow death of the need for any form of specialness. There still appear to be various subtle forms of a sense of a person that can arise, but this sense of "self-ing" is becoming increasingly unclear - "this” seems to leave no room for doubts. Any concerns about this process, or any other aspects of life, seem to be falling away more and more.

[@lensatov]

I feel so deeply moved even to tears by what you’ve pointed to. Something in me recognizes the truth and beauty that is. Thanks Angelo.❤️

[@A2Zdogmd]

Enjoyed this. Thank you, Angelo 🙏

[@shouldi9575]

Great video, more please :D

[@Jensterkc]

I loved this so much. Thank you, Angelo.

[@plantlove2585]

WOW! Thank you so much! This was problem the most important video for me to watch at this point. Have been going into non-dual stuff quite a lot lately, but always a feel to it, that there is something off, there is something not "balanced" as you were saying. That there is so much potential for distortioin there, too. Because it opens a duality between duality and non-duality :D in a way. Your video clarified for me even deeper what needs to be seen. I love how you always stress, that every tiny bit of what is held on to, has to be let go of at somet point. No view. So so helpful in this! - Oh and please, yes, a second part to this video would be wonderful!

[@mutronium]

Thanks... that was helpful

[@cindylmartinez]

So clarifying and confronting. Grateful ❤️ I have a lot of trying to live as though I'm separate I notice this "ackwardness" I see how it is laced with suffering and confusion. I still cling strongly to being alone and isolated and misunderstood. This is deeply painful yet I can see the fear of letting it go 😅. Blessings always 💞🙏

[@JeremyArnold1603]

I’m finding your stuff sooo helpful. Thanks so much!

[@katypatton1886]

I’ve been reading “The Ornament of Reason” a commentary on the verses of Nagarjuna, and “ Cracking the Walnut” by Tic Nat Han, more commentary of same. This video is sooooo powerful and spot on. As heady as it is, it is getting me out of my head. Insights flowing. Thank you Angelo, for commenting further. Looking forward to sitting in silence with all soon.

[@katehiggins9940]

is the sitting in silence in july??? on line???? me too. and ditto to your comments. thank u angelo. probably a year ago i would’ve not heard this video. but now im ready for another lolll🤪🤪🤪🤪❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Leonard-Mazet]

Loved it!

[@looopy2u]

Ego/mind relates. When ego/mind is within then there is no relating. One dimension, no actual separation. Ego/mind is an activity as if there is separation. 'noone' has ever seen an 'I'. The 'I' is assumed to be an actual thing rather than the consequent experience of assumtion. When the action of looking into the 'truth' of the 'I', it becomes obvious that using the concept of 'I' is not a satisfying way to express that which already is.

[@AlastairGames]

thanks!

[@Twobytee]

"The more you talk and think on this the further from the truth you'll be" yikes. Guilty as charged

[@stevencheung9361]

Thank you for the reminder! It's very calming just listening to your talk

[@tamikofischer-iu5cp]

Thank you Angelo, and I'm in agreement with those who request a part 2. This particular video brought up in me a question that I have reflected on for some months, but have been hesitant to ask in the Q and A Livestreams: The 3 Pillars of Zen was a meaningful and much appreciated book for me when I read it some years ago. After hearing your mention of it, I have revisted it, and became curious to know more about Yasutani Roshi's life. In a Google search, I became aware for the first time that he was said to have held some extreme political views, that included militarism and anti-Semitism. Could it be that given that period in history, he was under undue pressure from others to express strangely divisive and fixed views? Does this mean that within his enlightenment there was no doubt clearly still pockets of highly unexamined delusion? Where did his holding of such extreme and fixated energy and belief come from? Many thanks 🙏

[@tamikofischer-iu5cp]

I just watched today's video from Angelo 'When the House of Cards Collapses' and feel like this question has just been addressed. I don't feel disillusioned and jaded anymore, and can proceed with freshness and enthusiasm . 🙏 💚

[@QueSeraSera-f3s]

Who’s interpretation of Hsin Hsin Ming do you prefer Angelo? Thanks!🙏

[@HiluT]

❤

[@notoddbuttoddwho2550]

Thief! I had the most beautiful shiny collection of duhkha coins ever! When I listen to you I close my eyes and feel into your words. Damn it I swear this is all a trick cuz when I open my eyes my shiny duhkha pile is smaller! You better stop it Angelo! Or I am going to call the samsara police!!! Much Love, Todd

[@4991544]

What are your source translations??? You have a different translation of the Shin Shin Min than I do. I would love to get the version you use!

[@franradonicmayr6142]

Hello, I find your channel fascinating! I come from hegelian-marxist tradition, especially Lukacs and am interested in reification and subject-object dichotomies from that point of view. Are you interested in historical specificity of capitalism, acquiring knowledge in modernity, some specific limits it poses and how defines the self? Or do you have more transhistorical approach?

[@Ballsmasher69420]

Angelo do you think you're more of an integrated person without being mind identified? I see myself fight with the thought processes that keep labeling my experience and behavior as wrong. There's fear to that too, but I keep seeing these thoughts and it seems to me that if I believed them I'd go against myself, against what I want. It's like I want one thing and the thoughts go against it. I'd say it's some self criticism, maybe I learned it, cause I feel like I'm doing things wrong all the time. Hard to let go of that, because it's fear, it protects me from doing the things that I want that it believes are wrong. And what, if i let go of the fear I will do them, the fear itself doesn't like that. On one hand. But on the other there's excitement of being able to move freely and behave in any frickin way possible!! Can you sense that? That's where I wanna go 🤩 my intuition, which really is me, my authenticity, tells me that I should go there. And I mean I trust it, it's like a natural movement, it's perfect, it's authentic. How is it Angelo that my mind is against me?

[@adamtaylor5166]

In the sublime experience of unbound consciousness you refer to is that something you experience continuously after the awakening or does that feel more like a memory now?

[@hansenmarc]

4:38 I’d like to read the sutta you alluded to where the Buddha starts by saying that the beliefs that there is/is not a self are both fixated views. Was it the Water-Snake Simile/Alagaddūpama Sutta (MN 22)?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

yes exactly

[@chipjones205]

Hi Angelo, I understand the word "Nirvana" to mean "without notions". Is this what you refer to with the word "view" or "without views"? Thank you

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The direct translation from Pali “Nibbana” means “to be extinguished” or “blown out.” The word would have typically been used to talk about something like putting out a fire or candle.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Can also be translated as “cessation”

[@lindadeakin]

❤🙏

[@Kali.245]

Deepest gratitude for everything you do Angelo however noticing that I have become addicted to your videos and shorts and listen to them all the time even whilst eating etc. Is this a form of distraction from doing the “ effort” of self inquiry etc … am I trying to mentally grasp what you are talking about etc or is this resistance to doing the exploration. Can’t seem to put my finger on it and can’t stop watching the videos. Would appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Sone people tell me this , like it is their practice. Most don’t see it as a problem. I’m not concerned bc it is a transitional phase. As insights clarify you’ll probably become less interested in hearing someone point to it and more interested in living it!!

[@Kali.245]

Thank you ever so much for replying to this. Have been pulling my hair out so to speak as to what to “ do”. Got your book and audiobook and also the kindle version and yet hooked on the videos than looking at the book. 🙏🙏🙏💕💕

[@rlynn6658]

"nothing in the world offends" makes me think of whoever said, "no place for death to enter" - would you agree

[@jamesm5192]

@11:46 You say, "there's nothing moving from moment to moment, not even a continuous energy, really." My experience is the opposite. The more awake you become the more continuous it gets and the more you see the one major thing that is moving from moment to moment: the Self or soul. If you disagree, then I would be very curious to hear why that isn't correct. 🙏

[@CasenJames]

Hi Angelo! I'm curious; you mentioned you were reading a suttra recently. How come? I realize it's kind of a dumb question. I'm fond of the "just because" type of reasoning related to spontaneity, so if that's the answer, I'll gladly accept it, but what do you get out of these beautiful texts? Thanks for all you do! ❤️‍🔥

[@pedrosilva-im2kk]

We want part 2.. Where can i find the great way text? NAMASKAR

[@PinkyBar374]

❤💕

[@Ballsmasher69420]

Bro can you not make the no self so scary

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

🎯✋️😀

[@creativewingsstudio2766]

Is the luminous everywhere as light or more subtle?

[@yesUcan2]

Balance is critical in being a Teller; imbalance is bad...

[@gentleeventful]

I think the diamond sutra can be understood by people like you.

[@CasenJames]

LOVE the Diamond Suttra.... even as i type these words, i must take them back, for they are just that: words in a conceptual space. ❤❤❤

[@EddyDJIMini3Pro]

Ah look ma an actor or is it a non player character 😁🤣🤣😁