Alma Returns! 

“Pleasure isn’t fulfillment and pain isn’t suffering”. Thank you for this reminder Alma and for the wonderful talk (both of you).

"Compulsory participation in the socially endorsed inner world." A brilliant concept in this video

This is the highest level discussion I've ever listened to. I had to strain to get some parts of what they are talking about. And I can sense how hearing discussion that is above where I am, opens a door and plants seeds that can germinate. This video is a good example of how Angelo is upping the game on the landscape of 'teaching' awakening. It makes me wondering if there has ever been anything so broadly and deeply effective as what he is doing and how he is articulating the message. I think he represents something new and desperately needed.

I come back to this interview periodically. such wisdom for someone so young.

18:03 - impulse to avoid, mild turning away... leads to formation of internal world.. wow. ty for this.

This talk fills (me) w awe! Alma looks so young, yet is so realized! I love how she talked about getting to underlying beliefs - similar to how I do therapy, which is increasingly based on principles of realization. You guys are mind blowing. Will listen to this one again and again. Thx to you both!❤ Katharine

Thought seems to be a response to the disturbed emotion. The brain is alerted and goes into problem solving/threat detection mode and then creates further disturbed emotion, anxiety, fear etc. we can just drop into the felt sensation and be with the disturbed emotion with kindness and give it space, and that seems to restore to calmness, without that as an aim

What drives me is the expression of Joy. It is not pleasure and it is not pain, it is Joy. It is my Essence. It is that for which I rise and for which I move. It is the name of consciousness in this experience of living. It is the hum of my world. And it is always there, never diminishes never increases. For me, it is something that I enjoy, no matter the sensation, I enjoy the experience of being. Of being alive in this body

Alma you are so easy to understand your articulation is clear and very helpful. Thank you

I appreciated your comments on instinct as it's something I've been looking at a fair bit recently. I've come to see how my very strong, healthy instincts were being countermanded by very strong, crippling self-doubt, which kept me looping at a massive stuck point. Extremely painful and deeply frustrating when not understanding the dynamics at play. In finally engaging more direct, somatic relationship with body sensations while releasing of identification with thought, self-doubt beliefs are less able to hijack and over-ride the instinctual nature. So wonderful to finally feel I've made a real shift with this old, stuck pattern and to now be experiencing more truly responsive, unimpeded flow of the body's instinctual impulses. Increasing tastes of non-doing and a little free-fall/ vertigo type feeling as the energy can do what it wants much more immediate way, without the doubt snuffing it or trying to head it off at the pass. And I'd actually be really interested to hear you expand more on the instinctual, animal stuff, which you and Alma touched on. It seems the strong disavowal of ourselves as animals is a key hindrance to our capacity to allow the flow of Life/Nature to run through us, as us. Continued gratitude for all supportive videos, Angelo 🙏👍🧡

Remember the love that you are From inside each of us to the furthest star Not a single barrier in this cosmic dance Fear of surrender yet still seeking trance Grounded harmony like roots of the plants Oh lord oh lord how beautiful these scars For without them I wouldn’t realise the love in my heart

Your face at 5:09 . Minds can only join ❤Ive read the world will end in Laughter ( In ACIM ) it is written The World will end Laughter when we realize we’re only dreaming. In AA Big Book it says Don’t take yourself so seriously. Seriousness is silly and silliness is serious . There is no end, only beginnings . Your talks bring me great Peace and I thank you 🙏

Thank you Angelo for highlighting the areas Alma prioritized

Wow Alma should write a book I love the way she puts things

Angelo's giggle tho 🥰

I just love listening to Alma. Don't know why. Just so much stilness. It permeates through the screen almost.

Fascinating, useful conversation. Thank you, both. So love Alma. I really appreciate her authentic, grounded presence, clarity, no-fuss directness. What and how she communicates is very insightful and helpful. I have a strong sense of trust in her.

Once again, this has been the exact conversation present today during sessions. 🐇🕳️

I really appreciate how deeply you both discussed avoidance ❤

She is so potent and makes part of me (ego) very nervous and another part of me awestruck. She seems so blown open. You and her together are so beautiful that I could watch you forever. ❤

this whole talk has had a profound effect on my state of being. i find myself coming back to it and pausing after almost every sentence, and basking in your pointers towards pure reflection. i can't even believe this exists, as on my path of coming into contact with the wisdom of adyashanti, jean klein, gangaji and ramana maharshi, this may be the purest expression of nothingness that i've found yet. thank you both from the bottom of my heart

I had a intense experience today, I felt like I could perceive everything 360 at once. Almost like bullet time in the matrix. I could see everything as if it choreographed. Colors where bright, everything just slowed down, this went on for a half hr or more

This is wonderful! First time listening I couldn't grok it but second time I understood fully. As Alma says we are compelled through our conditioning to believe our thoughts and react to them. So very helpful. Now I practice not just noticing thoughts but also noticing reactivity. I say to myself, "That's reactivity" as well as saying, "That's a thought" so as to notice what I am doing but not suppress it. Next step is noticing and letting it go...letting it all go and then I will be free of it. The thoughts combined with reactivity create and sustain the suffering and inhibit seeing the truth. Presenting the DETAILS of this process and examining it is so very helpful as well as examples of how it shows up in the relative. Thank you both for doing this for us❤

The mind is like a magician being dazzled by it's own magic trick.

About the nervous system, it is a dynamic system beyond what we can imagine. I see this nervous system as an energetic field that is larger than the body and is continually in flow. We can activate movement in this field by, for example, breathing. By initiating breath techniques. We can also activate this energy field by willing movement or by sound vibration. There seems to be a need for ebbing and flowing of energy, so in that sense I can appreciate the word Alma uses, to relax the NS, but it's really just entering a quieter phase. By our choice, we can help ourselves to rebalance, to be able to handle life in manageable bursts of energy.

Some of this seems over my head, but always love dives into thoughts and suffering. Also a nice opportunity to see Alma's considered, ancient-feeling wisdom. Thank you both!

The clarity here is remarkable! Thank you Angelo and Alma.

"I don't even know if anything happened."is putting so many things into question. Thank you for this conversation.

Brilliant conversation, THANK YOU Angelo & Alma

Yes!!!! I have been waiting for this one. ❤

Would like to hear clarification on how the avoidance as recursive mirrors metaphor is different than the will metaphor. Our brains as error reducing top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top mechanisms seems to afford this standing wave metaphor.

I like her sobriety.

She is amazing, representative of Buddha family in tibetan budisme, the natura of the mind, space, silent , stilness and white color signifies spaciosness. ..

This was so clear like a mountain spring, thank you two for sharing your exchange!

35:20 What does it feel like when unconsciousness happens? It feels like a subtle trancestate born from a grasping or pushing away . It is alluring and always have a promise bound into. It feels like the autopilot of habit. It feels like a thin veile being pulled over my eyes. And attention been drawn into a thought stream......and even though it might be an uncomfortable space or pleasurable for that matter ....it feels so close and familiar that the idea of stepping out of it could feel like you might miss out on something very important..... and that if you do not get intangled with it you are doomed.

A fulfilling kind of conversation and exchange with all thoughtful pauses here and there that made it all worth listening to. Thank you.

I Am enjoyed this conversation.

ALL of this rings so true! Deeply helpful. Reassuring, also clarifying. Thank you both so much!

OMG Yes, on sooooo many levels. Thank you Alma and Angelo🥰

Powerful conversation and liberating- grateful 🙏

thank you. very helpful

Awesome talk❤

Maybe it would be helpful to see avoidance as a defense, but to recognize defenses do what they defend against. Avoidance of self created fear is the mechanism of its continuation.

Tnx. ❤

Tnx again

Good dialog....thanks!

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Holding space sounds good 😅

So if thought is based in reactivity, is it a kind of seeking some other reality via creating a watered down version? i.e. "i dont like this, let me inch towatds that" (inching towards would be simulating what you're after in your mind, a thought)

Without thoughts I am unborn.

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Thank you very much ❤. What does reactivity mean?

It's interesting....in listening ,there are only words without meaning...nothing has meaning....

Life allows for everything to be , there is no " mistake " "Nothing 's really happening " is misleading in the sense that there is a reality to everything , only not the reality of our interpretation of it .There is a reality to an illusion otherwise we wouldn't need to do these talks , we just would remain silent .

Does anyone know which version of the Heart Sutra Angelo refers to here at 14 min?

Alma using the expression "being in a body"......I wonder if this an accurate or useful way to concepualize things.......I feel like I am (trapped) "inside" a body....but is this true?

"The thing that doesn't exist is the loudest thing in my experience" HHAHAHHA Right?!!!!

Thanks for sharing this great talk Angelo. Could you elaborate on intuitive movement, if i wanted to practice that on my own. Thanks!

can I get in contact with Alma? Don’t see her info. thank you!! ❤❤

Some approaches advocate "letting go"......after seeing through.....other approaches advocate inviting suffering in and embracing.....not trying to escape....... I guess depends on the person.....

Hi Angelo. You said that instead of interacting with the world, we're reacting to an inner world. Maybe the inner world of thought and the outer world are both defenses perpetuating each other--kissing cousins in collision.

Yeah there has been so much confusion around this for me …. When I hear radical non dualist say there isn’t any awareness nor consciousness???🤔

how about a-void-dance

Does Alma guide?❤

When Alma is talking about no self... Is this more like the no self of the first fetter, or the no self of the 8th fetter?

Does Alma have her own channel?

Reactivity is more thought.

Mona Lisa

She is more humble than he

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Obfuscated.

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