What is the Best Technique for Awakening?

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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.

[@JasonMayotteBlum]

There is so much innocence here. There are thoughts that protection of this vulnerability might be good, but those thoughts are like a pebble in a pond- they drop and land nowhere. It’s intense, and so new. Thanks for everything you do Angelo. It is so appreciated and beautiful

[@sachaghozzi1896]

1- A recognition of suffering 11:25 2- Recognizing the nature of thought and doubt 15:18 3- A curiosity that arises, What am i really ? 18:27 4- Recognizing the unknown 20:35 5- Simply instinct 22:25 6- Surrender to the process 23:20

[@jamwall1]

And you've done a lot of videos on this subject, but I love all the pointers. It's like you're saying "what about this pointer?.... what about this one? And this one?...." You provide a wonderful service. Thank you Angelo.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome

[@AiRStrejf]

Small suggestion: the video is very successful at guiding you into the meditative/inquiring 'state' (so to speak) that is hinted at, so it might be nice to leave a bit of time at the end with just the ambience and visuals to let the viewer bask in that space of the present. Also as a side note: I'm glad that you're sharing this with people. This channel wasn't my introduction to awakening, but this honed, simple, and fundamental approach to it is what resonates the most and I imagine there's lots of other people who won't really develop an interest unless exposed to it in this more secular and direct form.

[@MrRaf10]

you are right, formal meditation is not enough, the inquiry has to be there the whole day, and it has to be deep, like an obsesion

[@mkxviii]

Thought and doubt, one and the same. Ouch! That hit!

[@birgit8996]

stop „here“❣️“This it is“

[@MajorCulturalDivide]

There's a lack of confidence, but I don't know what self-doubt could possibly mean. I'm here. I showed up. I can't doubt that.

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Focusing on videos like this one is a good way... Believing this can happen.

[@waynestainton833]

Sometimes I get lost in all this if I’m honest. Wow thank you resetting me this video I’ll keep coming back to ❤️

[@BandiGetOffTheRoof]

That happens to me, too. I seem to see the light, then move back into the worldly state. I think it does take ongoing practice. Being Awake is not like "learning a new fact" and then you know it forever.

[@thewayofnoway]

Just lost for words after this. Reminded me of the song Killing me softly ❤️

[@smashingtwoscoops4999]

I just love DeAngelos face! God bless everyone amazingly and abundantly! 😁🙏❤️🙌😊

[@carstengoldbknielsen1764]

This was incredibly clear and well structured. Very helpful. Thank you. 🙏❤

[@breillard]

Thank you Angelo! You deeply cleared it all. Brilliant masterclass❣️

[@alfreddifeo9642]

LORD, keep me with out this me HERE.

[@paulkennedy4305]

Thank you . Paul.

[@doloreskuechler855]

So grateful for these pointers 🙏🏻☀️🌈❤️

[@Pam74055]

This was beautiful beyond words ❤❤

[@pamelaj1226]

And maybe the best and final advice is to STOP seeking. I’m feeling that it’s time to say so long to the teachers and gurus. I’m reaching the shore. Thank you Angelo for being a lighthouse.

[@bouke7525]

geez, this is potent

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

[@Mimi-xs7gi]

Very helpful 💫

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad it was helpful!

[@solomontruthlover5308]

This was powerful

[@jameswalton9268]

With all love ❤️ Thanks for all you do Mr Angelo. 😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Any time!

[@trandyan]

Thank you, Angelo. I don't think there's another video out there like this one.

[@rain-wanders]

I would really love for you to create an entire guide on how to ask the right questions to ask in inquiry. I feel like I am definitely at the inquiry stage; however, I am not perhaps asking the right questions.... I need to figure out how to ask the right questions...

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for the sharing the love of truth, to help guide us. Love and courage to all to come here. Gratitude, Peace and Love to you and Violet for your selfless very helpful sharing of experiences of life, for the good of ALL.

[@nebojsajovkovic595]

Could you give advice on surrender vs following your passion - If you feel stuck or like you’re in a slump, how do you know if it’s life telling you you need to change certain exterior aspects of your life around such as your career path and pursue a passion in order to start feeling better again. Or if it’s life telling you to simply surrender and embrace and feel what is appearing. How do you navigate between the two

[@NickWatching]

Wow, thank you so much for this video. Love the directness of this one. At the end when you talk about letting go, it almost "defeated" my mind, I feel like I caught a glimpse of The Edge.

[@frankie.m104]

listened early this morning...every word...described my experience of living...wandering & identified almost completely w the reflections of consciousness...missing, not seeing the obvious... here now❤...am being let go

[@cosmicsalamander]

Thank you! Wonderful🙏💕

[@theflarpus]

Thank you ❤

[@em945]

Really helpful, thank you, Angelo.

[@mugaland]

Last Sunday when I watched your video, I was brought to tears. Was awesome. Keep doing videos. I'm in Parker, Colorado. Wouldn't mind bumping into you.

[@82Valgarv]

Thank you

[@BjornSamaritain]

Speaking from the place of truth and wisdom. Thank you!

[@yesUcan2]

Okay it happened and I can explain Elon’s problem with V12 FSD and clearing out all the responses I could possibly have in all situations put there by me and my ego. Elon must have named That blue line, our possible intended paths in FSD. As I solved the problem with my large library of responses (they all marched out together the other night in another of your videos); and in today’s video I realized (because I have been using FSD) having all of Ego’s responses gone, I can see reality as it is, I have a new identity. The solution for V12 is essentially the reverse of this! I would love to take my new self and work on Elon’s team solving FSD, I really think I can see some of what needs to be done.

[@juhamartikainen3050]

So good video gives many answers and makes thing more simple.

[@barryknight9618]

Very clear and helpful, thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You are welcome!

[@ruisoares4515]

Beautiful explanation Angelo! Great video!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad you liked it!

[@annemcvitie4805]

Beautiful ❤ thank you🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome!

[@monifaux]

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I have experience all the pointers you are speaking about, how does remembering take a part? The stronger your memory more understanding? 🙏❤

[@leeriley2880]

Class video ❤ x

[@baronbullshyster2996]

This must be your best video ever. Since your last best video ever.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂

[@curtfrager6846]

Beautiful, thank you…truly only vigilance to the razors edge of just This. Do you still have talks in the Boulder area?

[@hadardhumezbiagi1342]

These are very good pointers❤, the thinking system is so used to see the world through its own system, that it was not imaginable for this system that the "world" is not only subject object reality, yes, it asks how can I see behind objects, behind imagination, behind the world I have created as real... it is totally blind behind in this. It asks how can the world be seen without the tools I have to see it? , behind the thinking or imagination, ...? And the answer comes by itself.. There is actually something else behind this system behind the thoughts, feelings, stories. it can be seen but can't be explained since the only tool we have to explaine it have to go through the system that do not see it 😅.

[@nezen777]

My feeling is that consciousness has been "attached" and ignited onto this happening, and I don't know how it happened.....

[@demogadget]

thanks

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome

[@Jaccobtw]

All there is is awareness

[@MrMrscoffey]

I am alone and afraid… why….. how to get rid of me…why won’t it go

[@nicbarth3838]

I tried to understand this video but I couldn't, I'm trying to understand what being conscious of consciousness means. I just can"t if finding contentment in thoughts doesn't work then I just need to find that in my experience of existing right? how am I supposed to do that when I have thoughts about how I should have an experience, when it only keeps me from experiencing things without thinking. I cant make it happen but that only is understood from having gotten there from the sense that I was engaging this process so I guess I just need to give in to the illusion that I'm the one doing this to see when I'm not. Was thinking about how old my mom looked while watching this, what's worse is that I have had these repeating thoughts of "what will you do when people start to get older at thirty you better learn how to spend time with them before it's too late, all the while playing video games because I could not stand to be bored since twelve, my family loves me I know that and I couldn't have asked for a better mom, yet I never got any help for these thoughts when they started to appear at six and seven but not till twelve would it start to happen more than once couple a months and haunt me weekly or every other day for maybe several points of the day. By fifteen it be all day everyday and started to get worse up till eighteen till it plateaued, yet this has all been before! i've turned forty five all before the shittiestparts of life that ive spent my entire life worrying about even happened. What will I do thoughts like you said won't help it will only make me suffer more. I had a change half a year ago where I re-had an experience that occurred at seven where I was just in the presence of being, where self knowledge existed ontologically, with an understanding of what I was without any knowledge or thoughts. Unlike at seven this was much more subtle and tame I didn't dissolve like at seven thought my sense of who I am was looser not so much in my thoughts. Yet I cant make that happen, ugghhhhh, suppose I must treat it like sleep where sleeping is not an action but rather something that you can modify the likelihood of occuring by dimming the lights laying in bed and turning the volume down. So I have to influence this process rather than direct it, like with my attention to my attention, softly with a loose concentration that can be sustained through its discontinuity while having it involuntarily return. It feels like theres this awkward spot where its sometimes something I don't regulate whatsoever and other times it feels like I'm doing it all. I just am tired of being in despair, have wondered sometimes if most of the valence from thinking comes from my visual imagination, if maybe I were to be an aphasic then maybe my thoughts wouldnt feel so bad. The more detailed my thoughts are visually the more they sting, and that is unfortunate since my imagination is very vivid it's why I have a gift for painting, although I probably could paint with aphasia if I had it so that's probably not true. Although the part on suffering from thoughts by visual imagination I'm not sure on, wonder if there are any studies on, that's besides the point. I understand this video but only when I'm not the one doing this, which is so frustrating. Maybe I just need to feel everything rather than evaluating my feelings in order to have this first shift. I think as long as I can break out of the habit of thinking about my feelings then ill be ok. That may be eighty percent of what I need to do, oh boy shame here I come!!!

[@user-mm1qu7yb5h]

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[@Trinesmb]

How does being on the other side feel?

[@watcherofvideoswasteroftim5788]

I'm very grateful for your videos.

[@RobbeyT1]

I don't have that feeling of being generally unsatisfied, so I'm not suffering. Is there something wrong with me perusing Awakening when I don't consider that I suffer? I have searched, there is not this type of suffering within me at all. How do I make myself suffer?

[@oerantia9126]

The mind must undo what the mind has created [Nisargadatta Maharaj]

[@BandiGetOffTheRoof]

I used to be a Christian. I am pretty much convinced that the awareness of being "Saved" is similar to becoming Awake. I think the story of Jesus is the pointer, or vehicle that people use to become awake. So the question is, is it ok to use a somewhat fictitious story to achieve the state of being Awake? Can truth come from something that is not true?

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

☺️ 🙏 ❤️

[@martinspiering5817]

Just my experience, but the greatest value of meditation (i.e., a regular time of stable attention spent in relative seclusion) comes from experiencing suffering (and joy) right there on the cushion (or chair or mattress). If one meditates to get a reprieve from suffering, a real opportunity is missed to investigate the (empty and fluid) nature of suffering--(gently) turning towards physical and mental pain can be a real game changer. And this approach then needs to be taken off the cushion into daily life--there's no real separation between these settings (or anything at all).

[@DamnitJerry11]

Would you be able to credit the soundtrack to this video? It plays in my head all the time and I’d love to download it

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Just something I made

[@filipsigur6179]

How do we reconcile the idea that we must not seek with the dopamine system that awards us for seeking?

[@Morgan-hn9kh]

The power of Now?

[@James-mk8jp]

Where did you get the t-shirt you're wearing in this video?

[@dhammaboy1203]

Hey Angelo - not sure if you've had other people ask this but practicing both mediation and inquiry has released energy through my body that causes intense body shaking and physical pain. The phenomenon is directly related to mindfulness. It feels "blocked" at my throat. I've had this energy blockage issue for 3-4 years now and I don't know what to do with it. Can you shed any light on how to navigate this as I have no idea what - if anything - I have to do about it.

[@renakmans3521]

Thank you!! ❤ I have a hard time getting my head around the kind of suffering I go through which is based in OCD. I almost feel like it’s outside the suffering that spiritual teachers talk about which is more inherent in life itself. Mine just seems like there’s no purpose to it and it just reeks havoc on my life without serving this spiritual path. Just wondering what your take is on mental issues based on say, brain chemistry. 🙏

[@rhondamurphy4494]

@renakmans3521-bless you for being vulnerable and sharing your experience. Has shadow work helped you to explore your ocd and why carry it ?

[@renakmans3521]

@@rhondamurphy4494 Thank you for your response! I suppose Angelo didn’t have an answer:-) I don’t do shadow work but I’ve done a lot of ERP and it didn’t work well enough. Who or what would you recommend for showdown work? 🙏

[@vaenskapelsen]

Hello! I have suffered from both what could be diagnosed as OCD as well as Genaralized anxiety disorder. Much less so these days. Should add that Im a licenced clinical psychologist. There are a couple of key insights that I found very helpful on my own healing journey. 1. There may not seem to be a purpose with the e.g. intrusive thoughts, and there may well not be. However. At some point, whatever started the chain of "karma" or just mind patterns, came from a place of trying to help. This may have been at some point in childhood or in our adolescence or even in adulthood as a response to a situation where peace and happiness was not possible. Often, there has been some form of trauma or overwhelm involved. An example of this innocent response can be found in my grandfathers story of his childhood. His mother died when he was just 8 or 9 and his father was extremely abusive. His mental system, in order to create some form of experience of control and meaning, created thoughts in his mind, which convinced him that if he did not collect at least 8 blueberries from the forest where he lived, his brother would die also. He did this for some time. When my mother asked when he stopped, he said he didnt remember stopping. This can happen to any of us in situations where a sense of control is involontarily removed from us. Since as sense of control is what is necessary for any ego-identified individual for survival, our mind does what it can in order to create a sense of it. Even if it is only to provide this experience of control alone, with no bearing on external reality. Can you see how deeply we need compassion for such a predicament? Such suffering is completely innocent. Founded in a need for safety and feeling taken care of. Every single one of your thoughts, as well as your reactions to those thoughts have been attempts at peace, love and happiness. They are deserving of respect, love and care and so are you

[@renakmans3521]

@@vaenskapelsen Wow, I’m going to read it in detail tonight but you are an incredible person for shedding so much light on this in a post! 🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@vaenskapelsen]

@@renakmans3521 no problem. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

[@milagrosencasa]

😍

[@NancyBenda]

Traditions can easily be taken for a belief, a lot of hindrance I would say, too many fixed concepts too.

[@inforestsweheal]

So what is the best technique?

[@hamburgerjungs1149]

4:04

[@gimoo77]

have you heard the song from drake called "gods plan"? Its music video is soo good. It encompasses exactly what you were saying. Great music video about life and identity. Truly profound

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I’ll check it out thanks

[@user-kp5di1ot5s]

Super beautiful poignant, I wish I could hire a “closer” someone to just nudge me over. Specks of fear❤

[@user-kp5di1ot5s]

I’m joking of course❤

[@TerryOldfieldYoutube]

No Technique ... 🙏🏽

[@stardotter785]

Going to sleep😊 Is the best technique for awakening.

[@steveboudreauquebec]

As long as you BELIEVE in god, you are not awake. Simple.

[@bkbk1184]

explain

[@Loganworthw]

​@@bkbk1184this is not about believing, it's beyond belief

[@stationary.universe.initiative]

watch MOOJI

[@sanekabc]

I wish you had included psychedelic drugs on your short list of things which are merely experiences however profound they are.

[@n-xsta]

I wonder if this is why I have never been able to assimilate to groups (I’ve tried many different times many different groups) because there was always the feeling that there was little authenticity to the group dynamic and noticed I was acting a type of way depending on the group. This really doesn’t end does it 🫠😂🙏🏾

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I can relate

[@christinaforras]

The last place you’d ever think to look is where it is! Ahhhh 😅🎁💎🪷

[@pencilcase46]

Finally i came to my right sens; I can’t do it, I surrender. Then I said to the core; I’m fine, not perfect, but okay - so now you can use me, I’m yours ❤ That changed everything 🕳🫧💫🌬️✨🌈👁