The Ego's Last Stand!

[@AliveClint]

Most of these experiences are flying over my head although I have convinced myself I understand them conceptually. I enjoyed that, because it knocked loose some of the framework of my personal expectations. This sort of conversation felt extremely valuable, even from a place of not being able to relate to it.

[@infinitenothingness]

Yes. [12:44] the ego trying to play the last ace up it's sleeve. ♠️ Screaming "no, I am here, I am significant, believe in me!" But then 🪦, and true letting go occurs, without any doer or doing: the freedom to truly let /everything/ be as it already is and relax into pure spontaneous existence 😌 🙏 beautifully simple 🤭

[@johanbelin394]

"Hands and floors...". Such a relief!

[@arazetteh5376]

"All teachings are provisional." Thanks for sharing 💛

[@innernesss]

I think this is my favourite thing I’ve seen/heard on your channel! Love the depth, also love to hear you exploring his so called ‘position’ to help him see what he is overlooking. Could listen to hours of you and him chatting :)))

[@Lulubear0304]

I’m so excited for the July online retreat!!!!!

[@RosentwigMusic]

This video has been immensely helpful. I've recently found everything to have quiet down a lot and at times the simplicity of it completely takes everything in and there is nothing but that and this complete satisfaction arises that seems to just be what everything is made of, but then sometimes thoughts arise that are still looking for something, alan watts used to call it the golden goodie, it's like seeking wants to continue because "this" is not good enough yet. And in a way life will continue to create new emotions, new situations, but it can never be more than what it is. And there is almost a disappointment there that it's this simple.

[@benmanwaring8260]

This video came at the perfect time for me because i can relate completely to what hes saying. I am at the exact same place so to see this video appear when it did is very bizarre

[@macparker3549]

Really cool to see you working with someone on this level. Lovely. Love watching the responsiveness of your attention. Thank you both… 🙏🫥

[@ronjenks4133]

"As Bankei says over and over again, the unborn mind is immediate. You just hear the bird, you just taste the ice cream. A moment of hearing consciousness or a moment of taste consciousness arises. This is the moment of mind before we conceptualize an experience, before we make a narrative about the experience, before we produce notions of self and other, before we evaluate as desirable or undesirable. This is, as Bankei puts it, Buddha mind. What good is this immediate unborn mind? This mind is free of suffering. Having an experience of unborn mind, let's us know we aren't trapped in the fabricated, reified or “born” mind of words and concepts. " "One might think, “well if an experience of unborn mind is good, wouldn't it be better to abide in the unborn all the time?” The answer is no. First, that kind of attitude implies a certain grasping of trying to make such an experience “permanent”. Trying to cling to the unborn mind, like any other clinging, will lead to suffering. Second, experiencing unborn mind is like taking medicine. It is a cure for delusion. We create delusion all the time. However, through an experience of the unborn mind, we realize our delusions are delusions. Then, in some sense, there are no longer delusions."

[@ronjenks4133]

And I might add: if you make someone the authority, YOU are the authority. ;-) We all need to apply ourselves...investigate....find out.

[@hear-and-know]

Thank you for sharing, I found it very valuable. Do you recall where it is from?

[@katehiggins9940]

amazing video!!! this tracks…… subtler and subtler…… thankful 🙏❤️😜

[@LeftTheMatrix]

Thank you SO much - both of you- for this sharing. Gives me courage to keep breaking through the subject/object split. Although the contentedness already being experienced is a huge motivator ❤😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Wonderful!! Keep at it!!

[@holisticanxietyadvice8549]

I think I heard in him almost sense of disappointment about how things are just about hands and floors? It might just be my projection though. But personally, the experience also doesn't sound so appealing to be honest. No meaning, no context, and not even someone there to enjoy being awakened. Maybe I'm just freaking out s bit because I have glimpses of this non-dual no-self experience myself these days. But I don't see the point in all of it. Why would reality go through all this ego illusion stuff to end up at floors and hands? Where or what is god? Where does love come into play? I'm a bit afraid now that in the core reality is disappointing. I know there won't be anyone to be disappointed anymore,but still. I always had intuitions about profound love and peace at the heart of reality, not sights and smells.

[@macparker3549]

I appreciate the raw honesty of your post. While I can’t speak from the level of experience of either Angelo or the man he is talking to, I somehow doubt that life has staged this whole show just so it could deliver a giant sucker punch “at the end.” But who knows, I’ve been wrong about just about everything else! 🤨🤬🧌😁😂

[@lukaslasso]

Who doesn’t see the point in all of it?

[@eladchone2856]

Love and respect the honesty of this sharing 🖤

[@pandmantom]

:) Def can feel scary before it shows up or if it is resisted passively/actively. Maybe a helpful analogy could be Do you need to say, think or feel "I am seeing" for sight to reach the eyes, hit the brain and form and image? Do you need to say, think or feel "I enjoy icecream" for taste to hit the mouth, reach the brain and have the effect it does? Maybe that helps to relax the idea of losing the someone who enjoys 😉

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It can be disappointing ins certain way, but only to the sense that there should be something to "win the game." when it's clear that there is nothing/noone there then all that is left is a paradoxical profound peace/natural enjoyment. It's a transition period. The illusion of Identity runs deep.

[@danielmaina4942]

I am finding myself running from this a bit, I am starting to really enjoy being drunk and high more than I did before 😬. Not super proud of this.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Being able to see it is very important. Good on you. Perhaps do sone emotion work around it. Can be deeply rooted stuff but you can certainly get under it :)))

[@danielmaina4942]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Very true, I think some of this might be related to expectations in my current relationship but I'll keep my eye on the emotional work. I am sure there is some content from you I can lean on a bit about emotional work. Thanks.

[@mistihooten2682]

These videos make my experience seem so far away from the reality of it all. Still sorting through life situations and coping with all of the minds perceptions of what to do and how to handle things. It makes me feel like what I’m dealing with is quite trivial to the whole and only significant to “me” it’s an odd feeling.

[@supeshalawithinwithout]

What a wonderful video! Thank you! 🙏

[@VioletSynergy]

A great chat!! I hope to connect with him. =)

[@Phantom.1]

Brahman is not a personal god that cares about humans and their egos. The good news is that YOU (and everything) are Brahman, so ease into that realization.

Kogen ❤🙏🏾

[@anncairns1099]

Thank you ❤😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You're welcome 😊

[@stoicafanel]

Outstanding,,,it îs unnatural/natural simple,,,,,,,But I am still watching You,,,,!

[@hansenmarc]

“Creator. A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.” -H. L. Mencken

[@David-eu1ms]

This was a good discussion, but I don't know if I'm understanding the part about nothing having a purpose or direction, do you believe that our lives have meaning and purpose?

[@StuartJ]

Consciousness has a centre right? I may not be able to fund anything behind the eyes, but it's a focal point, and it hasn't always been there, which fits in with being born. The outlook is infinite, but it's existence appears to be limited.

[@siddharth9]

This apparent centre in consciousness is creating so much of this trouble. It is easily missed because it is sitting in the middle and referencing everything that occurs. I have only recently begun to question it. When some experience occurs the attention habitually collapses around. That collapse gives this sense of the centre. It does need not happen but has become a habit.

[@humanbeing4995]

@@siddharth9 💛

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What is your experience of that center? Look, feel closely. It’s a good place to investigate :)

[@injoyinmyself2018]

The organism creates a model of reality and a residual self image(RSI) of itself. Due to the dynamic nature of reality the model and RSI have to be updated and modified. Before the new RSI and Model is "installed " and after the old RSI has been modified/ deleted , there is a brief gap , where the organism has no model or RSI , these gaps though brief and subtle , accumulate over time and are experienced by the organism as glimpses of awakening.

[@korneliaheidegger3116]

😍😍😍

[@sleepywoodelf]

Is the teaching on something that can't be cognized or sensed (call it Tao) a correction for the tendency to see things rather than appearance, or is there something else to it?

[@prior2yourstory]

Could it not be fair to say that there was not even someone there to care about even 'THIS'? Does one's nature start with 'THIS' or Awareness? Why do you even need to say that the tendencies play themselves out over time? That is not the best of pointers.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

This is a very deep stage realization pointing. Very few people I interact with have realized what he is already realized. It’s easy to miss what we’re talking about here and especially easy to interpret it through earlier aspects of realization (such as realization of one mind which is what you’re referring to).

[@prior2yourstory]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake In any kind of realization, gross or subtle, reality cannot be found, if it could there would be two realities.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@prior2yourstory deconstruction of conceptualities is an important aspect to realization but it doesn’t end there. Though many people fail to see beyond that. It’s ultimately based on conditions. Sone will proceed others will not. Until they do.

[@maryamsh28]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Is this deep realization stage that is talked about in this video, beyond the deconstruction of conceptualities or before that? I want to know after the realization of that nothingness/ emptiness is any deeper stage. Or does it end there?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@maryamsh28 beyond the deconstruction of conceptualities comes non-dual realization in all aspects (doesn’t always come all at once). Then Anatta. Generally speaking.

[@thanelewis4675]

Wow, so there at least two of you…i’ve come to think of Angello as the American School of Enlightenment-simple, straightforward, going directly to the point. Here’s a question though: if each moment arises as a separate entity and then disappears, can you track and anticipate and follow flow as a musician?

[@humanbeing4995]

Zhuangzi has a story about the music of nature. I could be wrong, but I believe this is the pointing you are asking for.

[@thanelewis4675]

Thanks, I will check it out. Fundamentally I want to know whether I can continue my livelihood if i were to awaken in the way these two have done.

[@humanbeing4995]

@@thanelewis4675 Nothing changes, everything changes. Perhaps it means oneness with your art as well as all things. Move when the wind blows, whistle as it finds the spaces. 💛💛💛