Awakening is Hiding in the Last Place You'd Ever Look

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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.

[@leilacarr33]

Dr. Angelo wearing his scrubs and giving us spiritual prescriptions. Love it! 😀❤

[@gregsotiropoulos7929]

If you love it, don't forget to subscrub!

[@orii-raepoole5446]

The prescription thats already here

[@aresrabe3315]

I asked myself this morning "After all this, what is there beyond thoughts and sensations? What am I looking for? Why am I looking for something? Why do I feel this pull to look for something to fix?"

[@WasguckstdudieURlan]

Was waiting in line the other day and then I remembered no matter if I'm at home or here, I always already are so it actually doesn't really make a difference where I am

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

yes!

[@ascohn]

A couple months after my husband of five years (partner of 9 years) dumped me, I remember feeling like I was in a sort of vise of victimhood. Just a total conviction that I had been thrown away like garbage. And then suddenly, this other thought came up that said "I DON'T WANT TO BE THIS." And instead of being angry at my husband for dumping me, I sort of let go of the belief that I had to be this victimized self, that I was required to think of myself as someone to whom anything at all had been done. And I think I knew a little more deeply what it means to be "born" and "reborn" in Buddhism. I don't know if this was "awakening" as such, but it felt like I'd leveled up just a bit. So much suffering and tension is maintained by the continual effort to define and redefine who one is in a conventional autobiographical sense.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Beautiful!!

[@lynbrowne931]

I’ll try to remember this when I’ve dropped my daughter off at the airport. Already the narrative is in my mind, imagining saying goodbye, the tears and feeling anxious for her safety as the miles separate us once again. The long lonely drive home to a quiet house and sadness of wanting things to be different.

[@Steveness100]

I’m on holiday in Thailand at the moment and confined to bed with a flu. This video comes at just the right time as I lie here feeling very sick and sorry for myself! 😊

[@iseemtobelost8265]

@@Steveness100 sorry for who? Haha

[@Jensterkc]

Oh boy, waiting in lines and traffic frustration are great examples for me! One day I realized that I’m part of the “problem” as I am the line and traffic. Lightened up immediately. I almost cheered! Thank you so much, Angelo.

[@user-xh5vd6wt6w]

It's what Michael Singer says about surrendering, right? Every moment is okay, however it presents itself to you. And you get so many opportunities to practise throughout your everyday life. Thank you for this video.

[@josephmitchell6796]

Good sir your videos slap! And sometimes quite literally in the face.

[@iwilltextyouananimal]

I had same thought and similar comment! I've never said "this slaps" to a talk before! 😂😂

[@Pamela_Sinai]

Boy is this true. I was being absolutely dragged down by some kind of dread about talking to a particular person. (A good person who appreciates my support but is also utterly draining.) And I am "robbed" lately of my old coping mechanism of distraction. Going directly, deeply into that dread, as if that dread filled the whole universe, was the only way forward. I did a similar thing with a heaviness that's been on my heart for decades. I let it have full spectrum reign. I let it do and be exactly what it was. Not easy at times. "Wounded animal" is right. But then after a while it loses any sense of "good or bad." I feel a real shift today. A kind of emptiness that's a little intimidating -- the ego abhors a vacuum -- but I feel lighter. Some degree of reactivity is just gone. I feel like I'm on course to blow away on the wind.

[@alexhansen6648]

Oh man I really needed this video today. I've been dealing with some health struggles over the last few months that have led to a lot frustration, discontent, and wishing things were different. Instead I can look at all of it as a portal into the magic of what is. Thank you!

[@chrisfireymusic]

Thank you for these more and more direct pointings. Attending your retreat this week and am excited!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!

[@KK-qd6ro]

Everything is in the last place you look, cos you stop looking.🙏💜

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yepper!

[@instantjp]

There's nowhere to go

[@orii-raepoole5446]

Its a trap!

[@robynwood5204]

Such beauty and simplicity in these words.

[@GraceCoolBreeze]

Your book is so helpful!

[@alchemydragon]

Hey, I dig that, the last place you look... 😸 Once you shift from looking, you are being 👌

[@Kali.245]

Michael A Singer stresses this point all the time….🙏🙏💕💕

[@kas8131]

I was just thinking that, the teachings are remarkably similar

[@Jeronimo365]

This is excellent, I really needed this today, and of course all day every day. A goldmine indeed. How many times in a day does the world deviate from my mental model of it? It is what it is, resistance is futile. This feels like such an important pointing/guidance. Thanks. 🙏☯️❤️

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're Welcome

[@David85364]

I understand that if a person is affected, for example, by a neurodegenerative disease and a form of dementia, his awareness or "what he really is" etc., is still intact, because he is not the mind, the mind is "inside" what it really is. But... can such a person wake up? In other words, is the mind somehow needed to do this? I ask this question both as an analogy and as a real case

[@billromas]

Ahhh..being truly present and welcoming...what a relief❤

[@JordanViv]

Thank you

[@dvdmon]

It's funny, a lot of those every day frustrations, especially ones having to do with getting delayed for one reason or another, unless I'm actually going to miss an appointment or a bus that I've gotten a ticket for, etc, I generally have stopped getting frustrated with. I just figure that it's all just life, i's not like the delay means I become unconscious, and that additional time is just added time for me to appreciate presence. This isn't 100% of the time, but it basically used to be almost never. Mainly I take the attitude that while things are different than my original plan, who's to say that this reality is any worse than my imagined one, it could be way better! But I also worry that a little that this kind of "thinking away" the frustration is maybe, at least in some cases, just my mind's way of avoiding having to feel difficult emotions? I don't know, I generally have a tendency to try to avoid feeling those, so I'm always on the lookout just in case I'm doing some fancy rationalizing that's quick enough to avoid the feelings rather than just feeling them...

[@SuperFrankieKimm]

thank you. ❤

[@gregivanov]

Perfect timing… lately the futility of all mind-based living feels actually obvious/intuitive vs just conceptual. The magnetic pull of just sitting, being, feeling… it’s precious. so much gratitude for you 🙏

[@DPSAX95]

What leads to teachers speaking from their direct experience saying things like "its right infront of your face" but neglecting the steps often needed to get there, despite having them selves followed a specific form of practice for years?

[@walteradams3094]

Blaming the outside for a problem inside is fruitless

[@achilpal6900]

The title reminded me of Antony Di Mello’s: “You know exactly where to look. That is the reason you fail to find God.” 😊

[@advaitadzogchen]

spot on 🥰

[@ChrisTina-yc5fh]

Great video! 👏🏼The last weeks of self investigation l noticed to be mind identified is so bad! 😢 creating all the suffering. I don't want that anymore! But who is the one who doesn't want that? 🤔

[@dontwantafnchannel]

Same sensation with the feet on the floor at home or at work. The taste of salt pervades every drop of the ocean! Love this video so much

[@jdubluffy1959]

Fuck man this is freaking me out I’m really scared right now

[@cptgarfio19]

Tozan replied, “Why not go where there is no cold and heat?”🙏🙏🙏

[@Mimi-xs7gi]

🎯

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Rush "roll the bones" Why does it happen Because it happens

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Why are we here Because we're here

[@Disappearance287]

Sorry man i feel like this awakening journey ... And what i understood when I saw your video tittles it made me feel like Awakening need so much hardworking isn't natural? For me I always feel like Hot and cold about awakening Questioning about who's being real about this. Because i didn't want to fail or mess up and watch my time line gets destroyed because i chose a wrong path maybe Or listening to somebody on the internet. To be accurate i feel like a ping pong ball between these spiritual teachers. But some of them are truly touch something in me made me agree deeply like ur channel and so many others I'm aware that there's something bigger but my survival instinct still running in Auto pilot. End of seeking? Let go and surrender to unknown? What to do in life I learned so much about mind and soul for like 1 year and half ago maybe less But there's always something inside me telling me There's something wrong about me. Anyone can mislead me easily because i trust so fast Excuse my Random thoughts this comment i know it's messy

[@martukisaenz]

❤❤❤

[@Toopoint-O]

The thing I struggle with is how to tune out my mother in law.... she speaks in a high pitch voice preaching self-limiting beliefs that shes spoken to her kids.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Do you dare me to make a video on this topic? OK challenge accepted 😂

[@kiryubelmont3222]

More pieces seem to be falling away, more insight, more enjoyment in feeling instead of avoiding. The good and bad thoughts, only thoughts. It feels very auto-pilot and doesn't feel to have an approach.. this is just 'happening,' or is it? Without thought, who knows? Haha! It is so obvious, how was it ever so enrapturing? Every reaction/emotion/concept is obviously fabricated. The walls were made of paoer, just needed a little push to get through, excited to see whats further in!

[@hemispheres500]

❤️🙏RW

[@drSamovar]

Of course it is.....that is its nature.....how could it be any other way?....

[@ChrisTina-yc5fh]

This comes through realization. I only had a glimpse of that when the future fell away. I finally got that sentence: how could it be different? 😅

[@IAn0nI]

Construct awareness.

[@GBCobber]

Fun fact: Whatever it is you're looking for, it's always in the last place you'll ever look. Well ok. That's assuming you can see it.

[@johnpienta4200]

Strange timing. Just going back over the Kevin Shanilec videos. It's time. It's really interesting too. I kinda wonder if from a certain perspective (or at least internally) 4th and 5th Fetters are really the bulk, if not all of "shadow work". Recognizing that this can hold anything and needs nothing. Ultimately it doesn't matter but my inner mathematician and poet likes finding alternate ways to say the same thing. 😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I will say that it definitely isn't (all of it, tho it will be the bulk for many). However it is an ingenious way at getting at something that is very easy to overlook.

[@johnpienta4200]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yeah as I said it I realized there's the whole of sorta building positive interpersonal structure etc. But so much can be faced this way.

[@payt01]

Ok but who is doing the setting aside? Isn't it just trading one story for another one? Havinf said that, I think there's value in bringing you back to here and now. There's no need to accept it or to have your mind tell you where that feeling you just had came from (that would be another story), but to just be here without the need to change anything whatsoever. Things are the way they are. We're looking for that which is here right now, but seek the answer in the past or the future in the stories our mind tells us, thus overlooking the most obvious thing which is staring us in the face all this time ;)

[@nangfadhli4152]

bullshit, i really am aware when im in uncomfortable situation. and im anchoring the moment to focus in my olace here and now. when it past, its still feel relieve. i dont know what youre talking about

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I dont know what you are saying

[@SophiePoosch]

What If i Love to Honk around in Traffic?😡🤬

[@chrishayes4732]

I’m guessing this may sound silly but how do I set it aside?

[@mikeyfinn2]

a possibly useful metaphor, or not: your mind is bigger than that particular ring of your circus; what's else is going on in the big tent? what's outside in the fresh air?

[@toyotaprius79]

Nope, i checked and it's not in the bible

[@renethomas5757]

As if you had to check !

[@anthonyw1499]

You did not check . It's in there if you look....

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I’m not sure you’ve had time to check the entire Bible since this video was released. It’s only been a few hours.