What Do You Trust? -- (Trust and Awakening)

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[@Roland-0-0]

Grief erodes beliefs like waves on sandcastles. In the fading illusion, trust is born, doubt is gone, presence blooms anew. Unbound and clear, our essence is revealed. In quiet truth, we find what remains.

[@karen6778]

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[@garethbishop]

Recently noticed that ‘Awake: it’s your turn’ was published on my birthday - happy 3rd birthday ‘Awake: it’s your turn’!

[@motorhead48067]

As far I know I haven’t had a first awakening but I recently had an experience of letting go of the need to intellectualize awakening. Without even realizing how much I was doing it I was basically trying to think my way into awakening for multiple years. I had the unconscious belief that if I could understand awakening totally, then it somehow would occur for me. You hear about a pitfall like this a thousand times but for whatever reason there was just a spontaneous and seemingly sudden letting go of the need to understand intellectually. I feel a lot more trust and relaxation and patience around the whole process now. I also feel like I have more of a feel for what is actually meant by “direct experience” now. I can tap into it easier and stay longer. Anyway, thanks Angelo!

[@gendespa]

Same here, that's happened over here recently too.

[@spocksdaughter9641]

I reach back to old training....and relax into 'faith' for me same as 'trust'. Just unhook... let go and Be. Very difficult when deeply stuck.

[@renko9067]

Beautiful. Trust became a no-brainer for me when witnessing the authenticity coming out of my mouth: compassionate, honest spontaneity, not inhibited by thought. ❤

[@supersizegud]

This is so beautiful. Thank you ❤

[@introvertedfeeler2215]

Extremely strong pointing. This personally resonates a *lot*

[@birgit8996]

Complete❣️

[@KelleyBell123]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[@dannolest1409]

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[@nicolasnake9819]

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[@nuria.l-l-9827]

Angelo, could you talk a bit more specifically about that kind of transition when the shadow work is ending? That erasing of boundaries, is it always when the shadow work is ending? Can it be at some other time? Also, there is end to the shadow? It doesn't seem to end for me! 😂😭🙃

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@wolkenkuckucksheim555]

Hi Angelo, would you recommend the first shift to everyone (who wants it) ? Or are there people who need more emotional work first?

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🎯♥ Thanks for sharing this.

[@nissniss8006]

❤

[@supersizegud]

Hi Chleo ❤

[@karen6778]

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[@1111Here]

❤🙏🏻👊🏻✌

[@chipjones205]

Much thanks Angelo. I find awakening, or the process, needs to be put in my hula hoop lol by either my own volition or by someone like you speaking to me. Otherwise I am easily distracted away by my thoughts. Not desire. But mental story lines. When you speak of shadow work are you referring to the work some of us do to face and admit the deep pains of traumatic childhood abuse and such things? These deeply embedded emotional scars have often stained relationships with others and of course, myself. Until they are brought into the light and exposed, they can continue to negatively influence my life. Is this shadow work?

[@jdubluffy1959]

Honestly I thought getting really high would help me attune to this truth it did not 😅 just got really hyped and sillly that’s it

[@frediwalker2381]

Angelo, I don't know where to ask but do you offer 1 to 1 talks?

[@zemja]

You can contact him on his website which is in the description. There's a contact page.

[@facsimile-io3dd]

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[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

If the mind is the last thing that we should trust, then what is the alternative? Does the ability to perceive and experience consciousness exist without a mind? Ironically, we can know and trust what perception and consciousness are without exactly and fully knowing all the parts and functions of perception and consciousness. If one goal of the video is to persuade people to trust nothing, believe nothing, and believe that there is no such thing as existence or reality, then the video and the person in the video don't exist. But they seem to exist, and therefore it seems like a contradiction. Personally, I want a belief system that has no contradictions and is perfectly consistent. And the reason I want no contradictions and consistency is that contradictions and inconsistencies cause me suffering, and my goal is to avoid suffering. Also, contradictions are an indication of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy serves to benefit the person committing the hypocrisy and is unfair to the person who is the victim of the hypocrisy.

[@pignut9361]

Howdy. Do you equate the discovery of 'consciousness unbound / I am state' with 'first awakening', or is this simply the staging ground in which awakening 'event' happens.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It is first awakening. Though depending on people’s background they might not use those words

[@pignut9361]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks 🙏 just to clarify, when one has been inquiring into their true nature, perhaps working with an enquiry such as 'who am I really?' and they finally make the breakthrough to 'consciousness unbound', is it blatantly obvious? I mean, there's no doubt that one has 'awakened' - there's no second guessing, there's no questioning their awakening, the revelation is as clear & as obvious as a sledgehammer to the nose 🙏 Big thanks.

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

Does that which is transcendent of all form and thought know that it exists?

[@birgit8996]

what is „that“ and what is „it“?…..If you don't think about?….Does „this“exist at all?

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

@@birgit8996 Which do you prefer, to exist or not to exist? If you are reading this, then your brain is active, processing words and assigning meaning to the sentence. That indicates thinking. If thinking indicates that a brain or mind exists, then the act of reading this sentence indicates that you exist. Maybe you can cease to exist through the act of not thinking? For example, when we are asleep and have no conscious thought, do we cease to exist?

[@birgit8996]

@@FairnessIsTheAnswer what I mean is ,whether an “it” or “that” exists at all…where do you find “that”…other than as a word or thought…show me an “it”…where is it?…and who knows anything about existence?…does a thought know anything at all?

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

​@@birgit8996 Does a thought know anything? I currently don't know the answer to that question. I may not know the answer, partly because I don't know how to design, configure, and program a brain or mind. I can't create a mind, and I don't have complete knowledge of how a mind works. There are many questions that I can't answer. My personal preference, which minimizes my suffering, is not to assume that I know the answer. If I assume an answer and my assumption causes me suffering, then I am causing myself suffering, which conflicts with my ultimate goal. In order to avoid suffering, I choose to accept that I don't know the answer. If my ultimate goal is to maximize happiness and minimize suffering, then there is a threshold at which the cost is greater than the benefit. I currently don't have an answer to that question that would totally satisfy my desire for a perfect solution. My personal preference is to live in a system that maximizes happiness and minimizes suffering for all living things. So the answer that I would accept would need to promote what I want as the ultimate experience. My personal preference is to believe that I exist, even if I experience some suffering because of that. If the amount of happiness that is caused by my belief that I exist is acceptable to me, then I am content with that state of mind.

[@nat998]

​​@@birgit8996​ Hello Birgit! ☺️ How are you keeping? I'm really enjoying this convo! "Does that which is transcendent of all form and thought know that it exists?" I've asked myself similar questions, and for me, this _asking_ is deeply rooted in the philosophical inquiry into the nature of reality (space/time dimension, what we perceive as our 'physical reality') beyond this limited perception I have of it. Is there something greater than my limited perception that is self-aware in a very sentient all-knowing way? Irrefutable sentient self-awareness/Knowingness of Self. I am and I know I am. I exist. I. I realise two things : 1) As you say, this type of question can only ever be asked (and answered) within the mind/psyche... It (questions/yearning to inquire, to know) appears _within_ this reality (_within_ my field of perception) as thought... and only a thought will be its response. Can a thought offer any known truth? It is all conjecture. My answers and questions arise together here, and always have. I feel my curiosity is pure self-conscious sentience and a spark of my true nature, which transcends even my mind. There's something else here driving me, and I feel it intuitively. It's an inner knowing. 💛 The burning question, for me, is... can this limited, lack of understanding (about the fundamental nature of ALL OF THIS, our very REALITY, and the mystery of our being alive here) be transcended by a 'higher' omniscient Awareness. Can the big questions about the nature of reality itself be answered by the mind? Another way of asking this is, "What IS happening here, and how are we here perceiving this reality?" The mystery isn't resolved by any conceptual scientific models about it (although these are exciting to hear about.) WHERE exactly IS This✨, where I am? It's such an unknowable mystery once you really sink into this unanswerable mystery about where in the heck we even are and how we came to this point of seeking out its mysterious source. Life is so strange sometimes. It's beautiful and perfect, and there is nothing needed to concern ourselves with really, aside from simply being alive and experiencing life as it comes... but, it's still pretty amazing nonetheless how everything is happening on its own. We really are along for the ride! 2) I have temporarily forgotten my 2nd point, or maybe I accidentally included it in my first point. I've lost my train of thought and forgotten where I'm going with this message to you 🙃 Right now, there is comfort in my life being as it's meant to be. I feel I'm where I'm meant to be and that life is unfolding for me perfectly. I look around and all I see is perfection. I feel at ease these days. It's wonderful! I'm getting some lines from that Lennon tune I love: "Oh, I see the trees Everything is clear in my heart I see the clouds Oh, I see the sky Everything is clear in our world" That's how I feel 😊... content! I hope you are having a lovely evening, and I wish you a restful night (and a relaxing and fun weekend! 🥳) Take the very best of care, dear Birgit! 🤗💛 P.S. We are here, and what we are is about as real as it can be. Of this, I have zero doubt. What we truly are, our essence already is. Here always ALWAYS! Can't not be this aliveness and this being, I am always here. Here it all is... It's here always. It's beautiful 😊

[@purplooney1332]

I know it might sound too specific, but have you or someone you know come across this thing where if you “dissolve” into non dual sense experience, with eyes closed especially, some time later, when you open your eyes, you have like this little circle around the point you look at which looks a bit like when you experience eye migraine but a little like those jellies that you see when you look at the sky, except this one is, as I mentioned, occurs only in a small radius around the point you look at? I’d like to mention in advance that right now I don’t have resources to do some serious ophthalmological examination “before” proceeding with the realization because I’m sort of at the point where I don’t have much agency at it

[@malapropist]

My understanding of these is they are psychic connections to other individuals' awareness. One dot, one person.

[@spocksdaughter9641]

The blk spots not tiny... possibly you do need to see a Dr. Sometimes harming medications effect Neurological. Not eyes nerves

[@purplooney1332]

@@spocksdaughter9641 haven’t taken no pharmacy further than valerian, had my eyes checked about 5 months ago and didn’t come across no emergency, although my neuroticism might induce thinking “what if doctor missed something” type of doubts which are fed by people’s reassurements of my most of the time illusory concerns

[@spocksdaughter9641]

@@purplooney1332 sounds like your fine. The blk spots thing happened to my partner. What you discribe sound like what I imagion aura seem like. With eyes closed I watch the colors behind my forehead when mediation or getting energic therapy. Over the yrs I have a representational relationship to the few most common. Sort of research of one.

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

The shadow can not be perceived by the mind?

[@mikeyfinn2]

the very most subtle bits, as I heard it

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

@@mikeyfinn2 You heard it, are able to remember what you heard, and then communicate what you heard. Hearing is a perception. What you heard was stored in memory, and then your memory was recalled. Then your memory was communicated here in a comment. Are perception, memory storage, memory recall, and communication functions of the mind?

[@birgit8996]

Remember a difficult event…..(thought,emotion)!….Where is perception?

[@FairnessIsTheAnswer]

@@birgit8996 I don't know where perception is. That is a mystery to me. This subject matter seems to cause my brain to ask the following question: Does a thought or a perception exist at a particular location in space and time? I don't know. Sometimes I choose to believe things that I can't explain because, as a practical matter, I experience perception and thoughts extremely often with great accuracy and reliability. The hope that I will experience a mind that knows the answer to these questions appeals to me. If I focus on what appeals to me, maybe my happiness will increase.

[@birgit8996]

@@FairnessIsTheAnswer what perceives…..and what chooses to believe?…..Can you show me…..where is that?…..Where is hope without a thought about it?…..What, if all these thoughts are not true?