Why the Game of Thought is an Unwinnable Game

[@jeffatkins1691]

The jokes on my teachers that said I would never amount to anything. I was never anything to begin with😂

[@CasenJames]

😂

[@pchabanowich]

Like, the lights are on but no one is home...

[@kaydekuja]

pls that is so funny😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂😂

Lmaooo I relate! My teachers called me a space cadet, turns out I’m actually a space monkey 😂😂😂

[@tosvarsan5727]

I love this: " a strong barrier to awaking is not knowing that it is possible"

[@Oversampled]

But the thought that says that "I'm better now", that's true, how do you not believe in it when it's true?

[@kennyburch]

Oh my fucking god, Angelo, no one else I know speaks this directly. I’m laughing and in tears

[@AlastairGames]

My favorite thing you say is "that's a thought" 😂 you won't believe how many times I can say that to myself

[@silverhandle]

30 seconds in - already has helped ❤

[@carolinebielby5924]

Hi its Caroline thank you for sharing my story❤

[@riikkavuorijarvi8115]

I realized that pushing away all thinking is not an option either, at least not for me. It led to dissociation and anxiety, without a crucial tool to continue everyday life. I guess I have a strong tendency to spiritual bypassing... The contradiction dissolved as I realized all thought is not evil, just a tool among others.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Exactly right, you elucidated the exact mechanism of disassociation.

[@melissa48]

"They're already dead. You're already dead." I needed that reminder. Thank you! 🙏🏻 🥰

[@Mimi-xs7gi]

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions…very helpful ❣️

[@emilymacgregor4068]

This is such a helpful format replying to comments and reminder of some of the videos I can revisit. I find myself kinda shocked and staring at the screen in a completely different way to consuming other content. Reality is really shocking to my mind. I’m finding myself quite disoriented. But it’s welcome because it feels like a movement I want. Scary but fresh and fascinating. With a kind of “what the F is going on” feel.

[@renko9067]

Regarding your comments beginning at around 5:00: after watching your video from about three weeks ago (What is the Experience of Impermanence), I’ve been experiencing phenomena disappearing, mainly people passing, birds flying, but more and more aspects daily. This generally happens once the image leaves the visual field (it never was and isn’t). I had experienced this a few times since summer, but after watching this video, it’s happening all the time now. The veneer is so subtle. Like the veneer that tricks you into thinking you’re moving a body or deciding what to say. So thin. Appearances coming from nowhere, being nowhere, going nowhere. Beautiful.

[@Ojibwadecendent]

Ki I only

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🙏

[@KimL101]

More and more are being pulled into this to awaken

[@Klazi]

I still go into mind often through the day, maybe more than half of it, but I get restless there, but still go back due to habit. where I used to hear messages like this and they would bring existential fear and seem reality shifting now they seem so obvious and just like its putting me back here where I obviously was and seems so obvious and releasing and the mind increasingly feels like a drag

[@kennyburch]

Always watching your videos Angelo. You communicate the best for me, for many years, haha I’m a slow learner, but once “I” do, hahaha

[@boinkboinkboink]

Brian Shultz 7320 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that absolutely sent me. In tears.

[@missyhope5928]

I listen because I feel ingredients being added to the soup that is "me" and then an amazing concept "frustration is deep samadhi" and its like a pound of something dropped on my perverbial head, ty ❤

[@HiluT]

This is very cool! Thanks for taking the time to answer comments ❤ When is the next QA with members?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

In Feb, not scheduled yet, it will pop up in the community tab

[@plantlove2585]

That's very helpful, thank you!

[@AlastairGames]

thank you, very clear and well articulated thoughts

[@birgit8996]

It's about nothing... it's hard for thoughts, then there is nothing to do for it💭pure „IS-ness“

[@qforlong]

Thanks for this!

[@madamedessert9608]

Thank you!!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Welcome!

[@TraceyRichards-e7y]

Please can you share your understanding of conscious manifestation and the many teachings about how to get what you want from the universe.

[@Ryan-Dempsey]

9:11 - I paused at this point to do something and came back to this freeze frame. I thought spirituality was about love ❤️ 😅

[@Klazi]

26:06 haha it looks like angelo's operating system malfunctions as he claims not to be a robot

[@mickmaverick33]

Run file: humor.exe

[@kkhdeir1256]

Dear Angelo, in your experience, does awakening have a positive physical effect on the body? such as healing capacity

[@nrlrocks9503]

Hi Angelo @SimplyAlwaysAwake I recently emailed you this question and I'm wondering if you could make a video on it: "Why no belief is true" I've heard this said from a few enlightened teachers e.g., Adya and Jed McKenna, but "I" find this difficult to "believe" 😉 For example, here are three of my beliefs that to me seem irrefutable: 1. "2+2=4" 2. "I don't know everything about everything" 3. "Donald Trump either will or won't be the 47th US President" Can you please do a video explaining why "No belief is true" and give examples of why these specific beliefs (and every other belief) aren't true? I've been watching your videos every day and loving them btw. I think you're a great teacher and I've just ordered your book

[@Buddhishgirl]

It is nice to see how open minded you are about this, but I think it's important not to mistake a fact for a belief. You said your 3 affirmations are beliefs. When you say Trump will or will not be the next president, that's not a belief, there are no other options here. He will or he won't be. If he doesn't win, you'll say "Trump is not the new president" and that will be a fact, not a belief, right? I think 2+2=4 is a bit tricky. It is a fact, but it is also a concept we established to represent the reality in some way. But it doesn't feel like a belief, I mean unless you want to challenge the whole mathematical framework we use to relate to the world or venture into some philosophical statements like nothing is true, if I have 2 apples and you give me 2 apples, I won't have 5 apples 😂 Anyway, this could be a longer discussion than we can say in a comment section, but maybe others could add to my comment. 🙂

[@Buddhishgirl]

Oh and I forgot : I don't know everything about everything : that's clearly a fact! 😂

[@nrlrocks9503]

@@Buddhishgirl Academics and philosophers distinguish between "true beliefs" and "false beliefs", Adyashanti and Jed McKenna (and I'm sure many other enlightened teachers) claim that "no belief is true" which "I" don't "believe" so I gave examples of 3 things which I believe are true/facts. It is clearly possible to believe something that is a fact/true. If you dismiss every example of a true belief because it is a fact, then by definition every belief will be false, because every true belief you will call a fact

[@emilymacgregor4068]

Isn’t a ‘fact’ a belief?

[@supersizegud]

A lot of will/energy

[@Hananssm]

5:04 😢

[@just_me_melanie]

What is the video mentioned at the very end?

[@JustDontMove111]

37:37

[@oneom8158]

Angel o, when or if you look at (before pictures ) of you, do you see what is now so evident in the eyes of the one who was searching at that period of your life, or ???? What do you see ? Only the identity ? 💙

[@Awarewolf-sc]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tashiwallace5338]

Sometimes I get the feeling that this doesn't have anything to do with non duality and everything to do with neurochemistry in my brain. This is all the inside of my brain and sometimes there is a tacit kind of perception of this. I am still in the middle of it though but then that's just part of this too. Is this related, or not at all what you are referring to Angelo? Best wishes, Tashi

[@mariobeer5446]

It's interesting when you notice a thought respond to another thought, and then another thought that says wtf was that lol

[@zerkton2648]

Universe…. It’s time to bend over. Zerkton is coming LOL 😂 soooo good 😊 I’m a minimum paying member can I join in on these??? If so when do they go down? Love you All and thank you for All you do❤

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Sustaining members get access to lives and Doublee barrel, twice per month :)

[@debbiemiller163]

Hi Angelo I’m a sustaining member but didn’t get an invite to this ?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@debbiemiller163can you see the announcement under the community tab?

[@carolinebielby5924]

Its a shame we cant just switch a button and turn all thoughts off😢

[@Buddhishgirl]

Yes but when you become able to ignore thoughts, it doesn't matter anymore. Once you accept that there will always be thoughts and you stop striving for that day when you'll finally stop thinking (I know I did that 😅) it becomes much easier.

[@Daniild-ul3pl]

😊❤

[@georgeshepherd3381]

AI is Angelo Intelligence.

[@elonhusk222]

My favorite taco bell manager

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Whew! I was a bit worried about you. We had a special on Dorito Loco Nachos and you didn't even show up

[@elonhusk222]

Finger pointing at taco @@SimplyAlwaysAwake

[@zerkton2648]

Red pill is also the blue pill and vice versa. All the world is a purple pill 💊 😂🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@S-G-E-77]

Is that not a D12 song🤔🤣

[@thegringoscottproductions1699]

Now the trolls are gonna work really hard at not being funny. 😮 Lol

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😄😂

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🎯♥😶 ☮