Awakening Q+A LIVE w/Dr.Angelo DiLullo 

The rest of the Awakening Series, and links to Angelo's book Awake, It's Your Turn: zdoggmd.com/awakening-explained

Dr. Z’s experience reminds me of what I remember Adyshanti describing. If I remember correctly, he said he was an athlete and used to just going for what he wanted. He was totally committed. Then after years and hours, he hit a feeling of despair and a fear that he would never wake up. He felt resigned… then he woke up.

The thing I like about Angelo is that he balances how accessible awakening is and yet he does talk about a process and work to do to wake up. I hate neo-advaita talk like Anna Brown and the like that just say the message without any practical application of time and effort for realization.

I'm Irish!!, From Dublin..love you both:)

This is such a NOT BORING conversation! Thank you so much. Re: tinnitus- I am a sound therapist and my answer (and prescribed treatment) for people with tinnitus is- listen to that sound. Fall into that sound. It is a profound meditation if you allow yourself to tune into it rather than wishing it would go away.

I am so grateful for these conversations. I had an experience of asking “Who am I?” when I was 17 and I was so freaked out by the lack of an answer, or emptiness that followed, (plus a frightening Vipassana retreat experience with no understanding of how to deal with it), that it took me a long time to get back to this question. Angelo’s book, revisiting E. Tolle, these RU-vid conversations, as well as Rupert Spira and Adjashanti have helped immensely with the deep fear that can arise with inquiry.

I wish that Dilullo will be a regular guest of this channel!!! Please keep it going!!

Love both there hair cuts 👨🏻‍🦲👶🏻😂

Very good interview! I have always said that an interview is only as good as the interviewer. You do a great job getting as much information out of the person as possible. You always seem to be well prepared for the task. Keep up the good work and I love what your doing.

My heart starts racing whenever I listen to either of you talking about your experiences... it feels equally scary and exciting, but as long as I don't physically die trying I'm all for it! 😃

Whilst on mushrooms 30 years ago I had this sort of experience. It very clearly reminded me of how things naturally were when I was very, very young. It also re-opened memories from when I was 2 or 3. Memories of the time when the world was a much swirlier more overwhelming place. Not positive or negative memories mainly just pictures and sensations. Early childhood picture book images. This was overwhelming, but comforting. Later, having gone a bit deeper the sunlight spoke to me and told me that everything is fundamentally well and as it should be. My only concern during this was whether I’d ever be able to return to normality. At the time, this all seemed beyond real and very important, but slowly over the years I have lost the immediacy of the experience. I took mushrooms a few times after, but with diminishing returns. It has however left me pretty confident that underneath all the daily stresses and anxieties there is a place of pure bliss. Whether it’s within me or further beyond I am less sure.

No self. Presence. Emptiness. All check. But that leaves one cold and potentially indifferent. You guys need to talk about how compassion, loving kindness and metta fits in!

These talks are such a lifeline to those of us who live in these questions and have for many years. Thank you for these great interviews. I loved the book as well. You do good work🙏

Really like your hair Dr. Angelo DiLullo.

My copy of Awake; It's your turn, just arrived. Wonderful... I am so ready. Read the preface and so right on! I plan to savor every page.

Not sure where I read or heard this quote but this reminds me of it. “The ego weeps for what it has lost while the spirit rejoices in what it has found”.

As an anesthesiologist, I'd like to hear what Dr DiLullo has to say about ketamine and/or psychedelics in general. Are these useful tools for awakening?

I don't know if this is placebo or just a wish, but Angelo to me seems to describe what is going on in thoughts more clearly than anyone I've looked at (and there have been a lot) in nearly ten years. He seems to encourage whittling away at that in a way that is directive without it seeming formulaic, and clearer than the vague directions on inquiry I've been exposed to. One teacher of mine would always say we had to conduct the investigation of the possibility that there is only one consciousness, but I could never get just what that meant. Maybe I'll hit a wall with that, too, but I have to say though I have great affection for my other teacher, most of his followers do not seem to have had the unmistakeable shift that Angelo is talking about. They get some peace from the IDEA of it, but they never admit to an experience of it. Maybe they are not saying anything because there is a maxim that anyone who says he's enlightened can't be enlightened, but I don't think that's it.

This happened to me in March and it's very freeing because you always tapped into inner peace.

What a blessing to find both of you. The more i watch the deeper the realizations, its like no other.

Once I started digging into this, trying the inquiry and thought watching, even watching Angello's Dillulo's videos and reading his book is not as easy as it was earlier. I literaly want to run away...

Amazing. Great conversation. Get Dr. DiLullo in conversation with Professor John Vervaeke. He was on Curt Jaimungal's channel twice.

I know I have been there before. Shrooms Halloween Carbondale Il(SIU, 1985?). I was outside myself. had a great time. No one was hurt.

I think I have been doing this for years. The tinnitus stuff, ya that's normal for me. I don't know if I am blessed and had this all along, or just a little different and haven't experienced it yet.

This body-mind is Über-educated w lots of framed diplomas and a Spock-like, logically driven mind. Though profoundly grateful for all my Dharma teachers past/present, listening to you 2 very educated minds speaking w the joy of Being is a relief; I can relax w less concern that I’m “losing it” or merely checking out. This boost of encouragement to embody this realization is a priceless gift to those of us feeling alone but rebellious enough to live a peaceful, contented life at any cost. Thank you both for sharing your satcitananda 🙏

Boredom to me feels more like a craving. As a person who struggles with over indulgence and addictions. Maybe my mind is craving stimulation?

More amazing, mind bending, content guys. Many thanks. Xxx

My most recent "pointer" is my cat.....PURE in the moment Instinct. Thank you and keep going!!

How do we live Awake in our 3D world? I know, very broad question. How do we balance our physicalness with our awakeness. Does our awakeness attract to us a new reality? Do our bills disappear and we have every need met?

Thank you Dr. Z! Love your videos!

thanks guys! love these videos!

I enjoyed listening to you guys. Thanks for sharing.

Baba Ram Dass said: Be Here Now. Same? Dublin rocks, great people. Great food.

I'm curios if Dr. Angelo has ever assisted someone with ADD or ADHD. Given that controlling your attention is such a critical part of finding this space, what advice do you have for someone who clinically has a disability in that arena?

That self-hate, learn to let it go, watch yourself letting it go. The problem is staying stuck on it, believing it and identifying with it.

Yes you can choose when to wake up, and you can choose a thoughtless state too. The whole point of this is greater self-control. It doesn't matter if thoughts are involuntary or not, the awareness of these thoughts is what matters.

Trying to describe outside the box, using only the tools available inside the box just cant be done. The Box being our "Awareness of the Experiential Reality of Duality".

This two folks diluted and disolved into the liquid of illusion, completely and lost!😮 🐸

This is what’s called over thinking, thinking. You exist, so you think. Now you have to fit into society.

Anyone that thinks using psychedelics can take you there should read Ajahn Sucitto’s blog on this. Prior to becoming a Buddhist monk, he used psychedelics for 5 years and with his later high levels of meditation, he was able to clearly see the damage done through taking these drugs and how they set him back. In addition I know a mental health nurse and she says she regularly treats horrific cases of psychosis from patients who took psychedelics and the horrible side effects from the medicines they need to take. There are other ways and in time these drugs cause many more problems than they seem to solve.

No, being is not the space in between thoughts, being is the space between me and my thoughts, and I see that space when I become aware of myself as the thinker. The awareness is all because at that point I am aware that I'm the master of my thoughts, I can control them, I can make an entire new and different stream of consciousness. I can choose more creative, happy thoughts. You know how meditation teaches to let thoughts go as they come, there it is, we don't need to get stuck in any thought, we can let it go and move more freely and creatively and happily thru life, make a new life for ourselves.

Is you is or is you ain't? So many empty "extra" words needed to define reality. As a 6 year old I discovered that I could make myself sleep by concentrating on a blank black board. As an old man I discovered that I prefer to pay attention to my thoughts if they are there. I find them worth paying attention to. When I need sleep, there is always the blank black board. Peace is obtained by knowing God not yourself. We are all too simply complicated to bring peace to ourselves.

What happens to moderate to severe physical chronic pain in later stages of realization? Like degeneration of the vertebrae caused by years of misalignment and neglect? Do you begin to enjoy the pain?

1:28:30 In Angelo's interview with Gangaji, she met Papaji and he told her to sit and do nothing and she did and he told her that, no, you are doing too much. So she settled down and did nothing more.

I had an hour long surgery under Hypnosis with No general or local anesthesia at all, and I didn't even believe or trust Hypnosis, but it still worked. At the end, I accused the doctor of not doing the surgery because I felt nothing, and there was No way he could do that surgery and I not feel it. He did the surgery and I felt nothing.

The pure sense of “I AM’”….biblical.

I have been hearing something like muffled heat bugs when I sink into meditation for a year or so. I wonder if that is the nada?

Thank you Dr Z

Which chanting of the Heart Sutra were you referring to?

Always good seeing non covid material!

It's not fearful, we just see it's us creating our own lives, if that's scary, then it's time to make changes.

A stroke of insight is a very interesting Book by jill bolte taylor a professor i think of neuroscience who experienced this non dual state for quite some time during a brain stroke and recovery. Her interview on utube is as good as book

Your Ok Dr. Z, you already do this experience out loud in your videos.

I took the LSAT without thought and got a higher score than on all the practice tests I did with thought.

We have to be willing to watch ourselves, at a distance.

It's called 'the force' Doc Vader lol, seriously the first thing I'm thinking is this is the feeling of experiencing closeness with God.

Man, my karma ran over my dogma. Awakening, step by step though.

If I reach a thoughtless state, I fall asleep and take a nap. It's a good time to rest but I prefer Not to take a nap. I'd rather rest staying awake. Sometimes I space out but I don't like that either, it's only a resting space.

The best!

If that guy did the Yoga Alternate Breathing technique throughout the day and before bedtime, he would Not need to do nothing for 4 hours at night just to get to sleep. It might take a few days to take effect, but the trick is to keep doing it every day, whenever you have some down time. It's Magic, will change his life, will get him to sleep when he wants to sleep. It balances the left and right brain hemispheres, if one side of the nose is congested and won't clear up, then do the breathing when both sides are clear, take advantage of the clarity and practice the breathing until relaxed.

Hey I know how to stop ear ringing. When it comes, I put my index finger inside the outside of my ear and gently stretch the ear up and down, L to R, and the noise vanishes immediately.

kewl content on consciousness. When will you interview a woman?

The only confusing thing is finding the words to describe it or thoughts to think about it so I normally don't bother. If I do I use words like merging or going zen but they don't really even come close. I'm not there all the time but slip in and out. It's something that comes naturally, especially with horses or when I do a piece of artwork but it can be at any time really.

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In the end we all surrender.

It Is all energy. That's all there is. There may be some difference light, matter, universal energy. It is every where and ultimately it is a life force. Awareness of self is ego which is the energy. It creates life, but creation of life requires death. Which is where the knowledge of fear come to be.

NO COVID ZONE!!!! 😆😆😆😆😆 Thank you

Imagining the Spinal Tap crew doing a bit on awaking...

Hello can you please do a video on side effects of vaccines like covid arm.

That is a genius graphic!💐

There are many paths to the same destination.

Where can I buy book Awake. Thank you

Love how you feel about clicking random buttons zdogg! #techscaresthisxennialtoo

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Wat about NDE?

Ask Angelo if he looks at life like a video game.. he will know what I’m talking about and tell him I finally made it in the club 😎

Are sociopaths or psychopaths capable of Awakening?

So it would be peeking behind the curtain. Wow.

Invite Weinstein and Kory on your show. That’s the show everyone wants to see! The echo chamber is played out.

Hi ya!

I'm still the thinker in a thoughtless state.

I can do Calculus without thought.

How do I get connected with someone who has been through this? It’s not like there is a FB group or online group 🤣

What is mu? Not much, what’s mu with you?

Dr. ZDogg, get in between YOU and your thoughts, not in between your thoughts. See yourself as the thinker, you are not your thoughts. You are the thinker, take advantage of that space between you, the thinker, and the thoughts. There are actually two spaces, allowing us ample space to make the changes we want in life, where we can be creative, the master of we the thinker and the master of our thoughts.

What if there is a "God" and you're tapping into an area you're trying to evaluate scientifically? Maybe religion is mostly whacked, but not all wrong... Just the fact that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, should at least have you questioning eternity and what that is... 🤔 Easy to reject, but God is that "something" that's beyond the human dimension...

Tao te ching?

You are over covid? What do you mean? Sounds weird coming from you

Yeah really, don't allow words to box us into a non life limited and restrictive, prohibitive.

Dr. ZDogg, stop conceptualizing, it's getting in your way, this is an experience and you already do this out loud in every vaccine video.

Why do you think you are better than people from rural locations? Do you really think living in a city makes you any more or less credible?

Angelo is cool but his hairstyle is a problem...really...

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