Your Senses Are Gates To Awakening (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

Most of our lives are spent lost in the thought stream. But the senses can be our gateway to unfiltered reality right here and now.
All of our shows with Dr. Angelo DiLullo: bit.ly/3HdpGn7
Angelo's KZbin channel: / simplyalwaysawake
Links to Angelo's book Awake, It's Your Turn as well as podcast version and retreat info: zdoggmd.com/sense-gates
Topics:
0:00 Intro
1:49 Awakening as a process beyond conceptual knowing
4:00 What to do when thought intervenes on unfiltered reality
7:01 The paradox of the personal and impersonal
8:50 The paradox of practice vs. non-practice
11:12 Investigating the sense gates: sound and hearing
21:10 The non-dual experience of hearing (JUST hearing)
26:10 The prerequisite role of Self-inquiry in awakening
27:52 Investigating the sight gate: gazing into infinity
33:40 Attuning to subtlety and refining perception
36:52 The importance of “just stopping”
40:11 The end of suffering and living truth investigating itself
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[@mazzymoo8136]

"Sir. Imagine you are in the driver’s seat of a car. You have been sitting there so long that you have forgotten that it is the seat of a car, forgotten how to get out of the seat, forgotten the existence of your own legs, indeed forgotten that you are a being at all separate from the car. You control the car with skill and precision, driving it wherever you wish to go, manipulating the headlights and the windshield wipers and the stereo and the air conditioning, and you pronounce yourself a great master. But there are paths you cannot travel, because there are no roads to them, and you long to run through the forest, or swim in the river, or climb the high mountains. A line of prophets who have come before you tell you that the secret to these forbidden mysteries is an ancient and terrible skill called GETTING OUT OF THE CAR, and you resolve to learn this skill. You try every button on the dashboard, but none of them is the button for GETTING OUT OF THE CAR. You drive all of the highways and byways of the earth, but you cannot reach GETTING OUT OF THE CAR, for it is not a place on a highway. The prophets tell you GETTING OUT OF THE CAR is something fundamentally different than anything you have done thus far, but to you this means ever sillier extremities: driving backwards, driving with the headlights on in the glare of noon, driving into ditches on purpose, but none of these reveal the secret of GETTING OUT OF THE CAR. The prophets tell you it is easy; indeed, it is the easiest thing you have ever done. You have traveled the Pan-American Highway from the boreal pole to the Darien Gap, you have crossed Route 66 in the dead heat of summer, you have outrun cop cars at 160 mph and survived, and GETTING OUT OF THE CAR is easier than any of them, the easiest thing you can imagine, closer to you than the veins in your head, but still the secret is obscure to you.” A herd of bison came into listen, and voles and squirrels and ermine and great tusked deer gathered round to hear as the bat continued his sermon. “And finally you drive to the top of the highest peak and you find a sage, and you ask him what series of buttons on the dashboard you have to press to get out of the car. And he tells you that it’s not about pressing buttons on the dashboard and you just need to GET OUT OF THE CAR. And you say okay, fine, but what series of buttons will lead to you getting out of the car, and he says no, really, you need to stop thinking about dashboard buttons and GET OUT OF THE CAR. And you tell him maybe if the sage helps you change your oil or rotates your tires or something then it will improve your driving to the point where getting out of the car will be a cinch after that, and he tells you it has nothing to do with how rotated your tires are and you just need to GET OUT OF THE CAR, and so you call him a moron and drive away.”

[@reeyanmaknojiya8921]

fucking brilliant

[@justsomeguy6419]

These are the most important conversations I've come across on KZbin.

[@snakedogman]

Angelo is always wearing the coolest shirts!

[@teddygrizz2538]

The conversations between the two of you are very insightful. I’ve been on what i been calling a spiritual awakening. But everything y’all say, matches everything i been saying for a while now. I’ve had some pretty intense experiences in my growth or awakening, but since not very many experience it, most others tend to think its silly. But everything y’all have said has been very spot on from my own experience. I appreciate y’all guys.

[@SamRoff]

Great listen right before Angello's online retreat. Thanks Zubin and Angello 😂 might see you in the crowd.

[@tyvrymch]

I got the giggle when you started talking about sound. 😂😂😂😂

[@rosinamarie13]

On Angelo's topic about hearing the chirping of the birds differently or through the veil it reminds me of alarm fatigue for those people that are healthcare workers they know what alarm fatigue is that's how I used to hear the birds chirping but now I actually *HEAR* the birds chirping 🙏

[@kristycika5546]

Thank you so much for this series! I can't wait to read the book. I have been at the doorstep of this for awhile and now know what I've been on the cusp of.

[@marandadavis9412]

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known" 1 Corinthians <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="792">13:12</a>

[@rbecerramiami]

Thank you, Z Dogg, M. D. You’re brilliant and entertaining and you also led me to Angelo…. Thanks always, AD M.D. Several months ago, I was fortunate enough to watch one of your videos where you pointed out the non-duality of the visual field. Even though I had been seeking for many many years, that was the biggest breakthrough I’d had to that point. The seeing was immediate, and the impact was huge. I thought I had lost it a few times, and despaired, but now I see clearly that I just had to go through the process of integrating the shadow material. (Just like you said). I can’t say where I am now. As far as being in any sort of process. Or for that matter, having any sort of position. Or for that matter, I don’t know what being is anymore. Anyway, I love listening to you both. I am super grateful. No one would have ever described this character (or action figure as Paul Hedderman would say) as “laid back.” More like, neurotic, anxious, paranoid, controlling…. But as it says in the Big Book of AA, I have ceased fighting anyone or anything. Peace to you, my brothers. Peace be upon the troubled waters of “seeking.” Peace be upon the bottomless pit of “knowing.” Peace to all particulars. This is this. This is Choiceless Love for All. ❤

[@ZDoggMD]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lukystaify]

its so nice to hear the scientific reasoning for the senses and how the science works. Because the experience itself or experiencing is so simple and immediate. Thank you for the videos!

[@johnnywlittle]

Great exchange guys. I won’t even hint at the fact that I know what you’re talking about in any experiential kinda way but something is going on!

[@AshleyStuart]

I had to rewatch this one again. These episodes feel completely different to me than when I watched them when you initially released them for supporters. I totally agree about the senses. I do so much work with sound because I find it such a good meditation object. Next, I'd like to work with vision but I find it so much harder to work with for some reason.

[@keithoyoung34]

Try Greg Goode’s book The Direct Path

[@Sashas-mom]

Thank you to the channel creator for such well organized chapters to locate and relocate specific topics. Great advantage!

[@ZDoggMD]

Glad you like them!

[@kristalea1323]

Finally the ear ringing explained in a way that satisfies ❤

[@therealme1518]

Thank you so much for these talks-mindboggling and rightly so, as it leaves a space with the mind out of the way. There is an ancient Hindu saying in Sanskrit that translates as, 'Liberation(Moksha) is in subtlety(Sukshma)'. The 2D nature of reality you were talking about reminded me about a talk where Buddhist monks described life as a tapestry.... You look at it from so many angles and dispel any myths about what it is all about. I feel, it's as if you have set off a deep resonance within me which would only occur, according to the laws of physics, if our frequencies matched, I suppose! I truly am so grateful for the wonderful pointers that make me pause and look beyond the pointing.

[@LeftTheMatrix]

❤ these practices being broken down so clearly as a discussion w examples! Grateful 🙏

[@andreagiacomettimdfacr4903]

Thanks

[@elg37drexel]

zdog & Angelo thank you. zdogg as an icu rn you gave me such quality non biased non fear based needed information during the thick of the pandemic && more recently these are just spot on what I needed. I got sick of my suffering about a 1.5 years ago and began my journey, now watching these there are so many light bulb moments as well as discussions that really align with my current journey. THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU

[@annettalybecker4712]

The whole experience of this has been a dissolving into being. The tinnitus has been ever present for so long now (can’t really remember when (I) became conscious of it) As I was watching the screen on my phone the images became somewhat translucent and again a dissolving into the experience. Sound and visual became one. This is very hard to put into words but it was subtle and sublime. Thank you for your work together and sharing with us all. This is such a heartening experience. “what was my face before my parents were born” there is always great joy and mirth in my heart each time I hear/think of this. Thank you♥️

[@karenkaren3189]

These discussions are so helpful to me.

[@im5599]

Thank you guys....love it, great format. Unmanifest 😉

[@LunaticAstrology]

Yes.

[@Namaha111]

Fantastic

[@meaganmurray9382]

I can feel it, have been able since I was a kid, it’s almost a blank void feeling and I snap out of it and think wow what was that?

[@lunkerjunkie]

listening to the river while gazing at a wave form

[@milkphish4122]

Wow. My mind is spinning. This whole episode is like Schroedinger’s cat. Did I really just watch this?!

[@tyvrymch]

I feel like this is right where I'm at I'm so grateful for these videos about the sense cakes. Gates lol

[@conniemasiello5252]

Angelo's description of flattening out what your viewing is how I paint. I have to flatten out the 3 dimensional object/scene I'm painting in order to transfer on to a canvass. It's at these times that I am in the zone.

[@janamatheson1995]

At a silent retreat with Adyashanti, we passed each other on a dunes path, our eyes locked ( his are that ineffable blue) and there was a transmission of spiritual energy that lasted for several weeks then faded…During that time I noticed what was once important and anxiety induced faded away. Please discuss these revelations as regards relationship rather than just physical sensations.

[@yesufabdulhakim9326]

Isavasyum Idham Servem :Isho Upanishad …great convo you too

[@vanshasthana7113]

"I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion" - Kurt Cobain

[@johannahebert1715]

Your description of senses and Gate is pristine. Only one thing might be confusing for people who watch is the description of looking and hearing as a “practice” which in view here, it is not. Very simply looking and hearing are receptive, passive, (they’re already the case) no efforts are necessary from a ‘you’ to see or hear. In a practice there is a subtle ‘you’, someone looking FOR something, an ‘I’ involved. And, no ‘you’ ever makes it through the Gate. Just a thought 😉

[@roanaur7518]

thoughts are also right here right now, they are as intrinsic to the present moment as anything

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

This is great but is the title misleading? Angelo seems to say here that inquiry into the senses is mostly for deepening one’s realization after awakening, not for having an awakening.

[@rmschindler144]

hearing, “...and it’s not a ‘you’ that’s stopping; it’s just stopping...” (around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2296">38:16</a>), made me wish to add: it’s a stopping of being you. i see it like this: what makes you ‘you’ is a like an interlinked network of thoughts. let’s say that along with keeping that network active, the filter is kept active-the filter, ie, which we are playing with turning off. I can divine two ways, at least, of effecting a ‘turning off’ of the network of thoughts that is ‘you’. one, presume that there is some part of your thinking that is devoted to maintaining ‘you’, and with that presumption, see if you can observe *that* this maintaining of ‘you’ is happening. two, presume that you have absolute command over consciousness, and with that presumption, see if you can simply do it. (this second way may lead to the astonishing discovery that much more is possible in consciousness than you ever could’ve imagined, but you simply never played with consciousness to see what it can do).

[@carriea3088]

hell yeah

[@HiluT]

❤️

[@shiranthibandara33]

Sorry for misspelling i wanted to say sound comes and vanish you only hear and that is it no need of investigation. It self will be gone before you know it if you make thought s with it you are creating me and the outside duality

[@spocksdaughter9641]

I have been practicing, on waking-still in bed....to shift my mind taking over, by feeling my little toe (I have a long way to go, grin). The senses as my entry point is wking out doors to. "Be Here Now"

[@zarlok5294]

Just a lot of words to say “ah f**k it”!

[@wowdontcare]

LMFAOOOOOOOO

[@zarlok5294]

@@wowdontcare I got over all that pseudo intellectual horse crap a long time ago. Something bigger than us? Wow? Who’d a thunk! Freaking amazing!

[@goych]

@@zarlok5294 there’s more to this than philosophy, this is achievable, but it’s hard work and requires probably more skill than many realise, the real question is what do you want?

[@zarlok5294]

@@goych Did you have a specific point! If so you didn’t make it. Standing by. Interested. What’s the plan?

[@goych]

@@zarlok5294 perhaps I misunderstood your comment, I was suggesting an end to suffering was achievable, what were you suggesting?

[@devonbonfy2506]

17 years ago after months of ego death I realized as I was looking into the darkness at midnight, I'm looking into infinity. Everything in the center of my visual field had static like an old TV pixelated look to it. I just figured it was another way I had gone completely cuckoo. Ha Seems like I should extend my focus on that a little every day until I lose my sense of separation from the objective visual field?

[@BH-qy7mc]

I find some of this so confusing. How would these senses not have filters? They’re nothing but filters. Our eyes don’t see “reality”, they see certain wavelengths, etc. Cats don’t see what we see. Same with hear, smelling, etc. Aside from the next step of the mind interpreting things, Our senses filter the external world.

[@GetUnlabeled]

When it stops frustrating you, do it some more and THEN ...

[@stephenfosker6066]

Interesting how zdogg relates consciousness to thoughts but not to the senses

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

There's just this...

[@blazingverde]

Have you heard of Daniel Ingram M.D.? maybe he'll have some good transference to share?

[@dairic]

When I listen to you talk, I'm hearing the English language being spoken. If sound is being listened to without thoughts, would those spoken words be unintelligible? Just sounds, with no language or meaning being heard?

[@miket1591]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="890">14:50</a>, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2250">37:30</a>, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2520">42:00</a>

[@jamesstaggs4160]

I've heard the buzzing/hum for as long as I can remember. I've always had to sleep with a fan on or some other white noise to somewhat counteract it. When it's quiet the sound gets extremely loud. I always hear it. It never totally goes away. It seems like a pitch that's so high that it can't be produced by any object or being. I've been wondering lately if it's some feature of reality that gets passed off as a disease or disability.

[@GetUnlabeled]

Turn off the white noise, take a month to explore sound, to the fullest (only one month you can do it) and see what happens 😃

[@GetUnlabeled]

Turn off the white noise, take a month to explore sound, to the fullest (only one month you can do it) and see what happens 😃

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thinking radio receivers are like sense gates...

[@James-mk8jp]

Do you really need to address emotions if you know what you’re looking for with awakening? Can you not just go the direct path if you are willing to un identify?

[@shiranthibandara33]

What you are talking is shunyatha experience it beyond mind it comes with Vidya

[@dduffy1133]

Remember the boy who saw by clicking?

[@deborahminkoff7526]

If clicking leads to better vision, Simply Always Awake will give you x-ray eyes. It's the most click-bait "awakening" out there.

[@RichardBoyer]

Thank.. you guys so very intelligent without being intelligent, not sure what I am writing hahaha

[@johnnywlittle]

Experience-less!

[@aureliafox2924]

Not 20 minutes into it… You guys are talking about tinnitus and the fact that it’s always there… The sound… And through the process of adjusting to the sound unfiltered it just becomes apparent. That’s just my intro comment I hate when I do that. The impulse to comment came because one of my favorite songs (of the millions of my favorites:) speaks of this, or at least it seems so to me!!! It’s an old hymn called This is my Fathers world. The whole song I think really speaks of opening the sense gates … which I would not have described that way before hearing you speak of it. I probably would’ve said it speaks to resting (abiding) here. Went off on a tangent again… 🤓😐😐 Anywho there is a line in the song referencing “the music of the spheres” and I always imagined that at some future time I would be hearing angelic music or voices or whatever, and Hearing you say this noise is literally always present… From where I’m standing it seems just as accurate to call tinnitus “music of the spheres :)) - either way 👏👏👏🙏🥰 but especially so for me because I don’t know if it’s like this always but at this point I hear in what feels like a spherical shape but “Tinnitus” is probably less socially awkward lol! Loving the conversations you guys record! 🌊🙏🙏💕

[@johnfiorello1931]

Lmao this is my formal invitation to both of you into my basement studio to talk about the universe and smoke 💨

[@richardbakowski8313]

It’s me l don’t get it

[@shiranthibandara33]

Isnt sound it sekf us a thiught. According to budhhism it is caleed sruthe sruthamatthan which sound is heard and observe the cessation

[@shiranthibandara33]

In Buddhism duality is called sakkaya ditti which is me concept If you look inwards investigate the inner self and the false representativeness of duality you are called stream enteter

[@spocksdaughter9641]

I am here perfect kismet sp? Timeing 4 me! I need this thank you.... consuming next.

[@bw162]

Makes me want to puke!

[@enlightenup4520]

I’ll say it here a bit differently than I did in another one of these videos. Non-dual understanding without a solid grounding in deep psychological introspection and development leads to gross oversimplification. It also leads to spiritual bypass. Just one example: “Thoughts aren’t the problem” is entirely wrong. We can learn to create space from both rational and irrational thoughts. But once we’re out of a non-dual space, irrationality continues to thrive. Meditation DOES NOT “dissolve” beliefs. Challenging, reframing, and re-engaging through authentic emotional intelligence “dissolves” irrationality.

[@ShinyNix86]

Lol. I definitely do not feel like something "higher" is running anything. This sounds culty-woo nonsense to me, but to each their own. We're all just trying to get through this shitshow somehow.

[@susanbizeau9936]

At some point, you need to just be quiet. All this talk!!

[@saraazar223]

I love how Z has fun with this man, but I do not. He doesn't present his ideas in an honest way. He uses hypnosis and NLP techniques to soften his audience to accept his ideas or suggestions. And his message is very much that of an authoritarian... but his "higher authority is in control of you" rhetoric is wrapped in language that's seemingly apolitical. I dread these episodes because I've caught a lot of this anti human-agency messaging from this man. It's not only him, either. A lot of rhetoric around consciousness, that's promoted by social media platforms today, is saturated by messages about escaping reality & discounting agency/free will. Consciousness is a political issue. I'm worried about @ZDoggMD and his fans.

[@jamesthomas1244]

​@@saraazar223 They are simply pointing to the reality which is here before thought. The reality that is always here. It may help you to see first-hand that just like the thought of a tree, is not a tree -- no thought is reality. So what is real? This is what they are discussing here.

[@dduffy1133]

@@saraazar223 Actually REFRESHING an MD we met during COVID, speaks about this. I needed this exactly now. Thank you.. that’s what this is for.

[@dduffy1133]

@@jamesthomas1244 Walk barefooted, touch a tree. Close your eyes….

[@geoffreylevens9045]

Too funny! Focusing on "just sound", picking the sound of your voice, I can do it for only a fraction of a second. Great fear arises and shuts it down because without thought, your voice is "quackquackquack" i.e. no meaning. Somehow I find meaningless voice sounds quite disturbing. LOL

[@GetUnlabeled]

Sound that isn't you

[@ramonrodriguez4372]

you guys are dancing around dzogchen. for a non esoteric version of it i recommend waking up app by sam harris

[@saugyat]

❤