Awakening | Self Inquiry Tips 

Here is the video I was referencing: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YWwe8HzUJu8.html

2 years post awakening and been going through it lately. Great video, I watched the Papaji video too and well it took me there. I was crying and laughing along with the questioner. I really needed the reminder. It’s still there, it’s always there.

Great video, thank you. The background reminds me of Giants Causeway, from my home town in Ireland ☘

I was doing self-inquiry by trying to see that there was actually no self! Thank you so much for this pointer, I think it will really help me. :)

I watched the Papaji-student video and ❓❓❓I have absolutely no idea what this shift means 🙂

By far the most helpful video of yours I have seen. I was so close before. I get it now. Immense gratitude bro Edit: Dude it's so silly. Seriously. It feels like I wasted so much time for nothing. But like in a good way. Lol "I hope this was helpful." I'm laughing so hard. What an underwhelming way to downplay the most helpful pointing I've ever heard 😁

There is a sense of I a recognition of Awareness as a facite of experience.There is no recognition I am not my thoughts though they are seen as objects and come and go

Hi Angelo. Thanks so much for this pointer. Its so helpful! So Im one of those people who read a bit too much on anatta too but I was always much more interested in the nature of experience and manifestations. Not " what am i" ? And my interest took me to lovely experiences of vivid, luminious and very "alive" Isness sort of experiences of the world after vipassana meditations. And also I would do these experiments of picking an object, looking at it without any labels, and without the knowing faculty of mind to tell me what it is. And there is just this pure mystery, awe. So Im a bit confused now on how to proceed as realization as ones being as unbound consciousness seems to be absolute step n1 that cannot be skipped. My dilemma is how do I forget all about investigations into pure experience? And ignite my interests in what am I? . I signed up for your retreat in July. Looking forward.

Interestingly this video makes zazen make way more sense. Usually they talk about having a silent mind being unnecessary and I never understood that. But the I Am is present through all of it (thoughts, feelings, whatever).. That's why it's so close and easily over looked. The I AM is happening now, all the time. Feels kinda paradoxical because, at the same time, it gets lost in conception about it?

Your explanation of everything happening within the self and it being untouched reminded me of that line from a course in miracles :Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists.

Omg I can't believe I understand what you're saying 😳 I see it 😳 I'm like this emoji now

This is so good. I was stuck because I've read a little too much regarding Anatta. Thanks dude!

Thanks a lot for this video Angelo. For a while now, I have been performing self inquiry with the objective of realising that there is no self. I've been going like "yeah I see an unperturbed subjectivity that doesn't say I. Only thoughts do. Haven't I got that there isn't a 'person' in here? How much deeper should I look, to be thoroughly convinced that I don't exist?" This video pointed me towards a better direction. But I do have a question: at times, I search the I feeling in a 'place' so to speak, either behind the chest or behind the face, based on where I feel I am at the time, and try to go "deep" as in "farther and farther inside" behind the chest and feel that the I is still frustratingly out of reach. I try to see the thought "okay how much further do I go now?" as just a thought but it feels so personal, so genuine since I'm identified with it. I have tried looking for the one who is searching but it just leaves me clueless at times, with almost no location to look for it. Is this the meaning of going deep, or have I misunderstood something here?

thx, Is awakening liberation from awareness? is there any other way of perceiving other than thinking and senses?

That Papaji video was really cool. Wow, so it all it took was just one really good look. Powerful stuff

Great pointers! Thanks 🙏🏻

For a second I thought you said big aSS self hahaha. I guess it could be infinitely big if it wants to without limiting itself to thoughts and stuff lol

Love the background.

I am melting in Mee ,,inefabil and more,,,,,,,

1:41 "this sense of self with a big ass" - voice to text can occasionally make a blooper!

Thank you for this ❤

What happens to the I am in no self realisation? I am familiar and have many tastes of the boundless I am sence that permeates all experience. But I have only recently come across the ideas of Anatta and I am find it slightly confusing and I have to admit that it brings up some fear for me!

About a month ago I was driving to work listening to you interviewing Josh. I was driving out in the country and a fox ran across the road ahead of me. For some reason that struck me as funny and I started laughing and crying like the woman in the video with Papaji. I had a lot of emotions come up over the next couple of weeks. I also noticed I have fewer thoughts. I do self inquiry when sitting in the morning and through out my day. How would you proceed?

I think the reason or one of the reasons people including me use this is because they are concepts that are easier to follow. While I love your vids some are way to woo woo and out there full of jargon that can’t be comprehended like one hand claps or what’s your face before your parents were born or other lingo that can’t be grasped at

These pointers are SO helpful…deeply grateful

If you inquire the nature of thoughts probably true nature is revealed as with looking beyond thoughts.

This should also be in the playlist) by the way... it would be very nice to have a "primer" video or two on inquiry. Maybe a guided meditation with more silence inbetween points. At least, that's what I've expected to find in the playlist when I first came to this channel after reading the book. Just to solidify. I understood that the playlist won't actually help me to start the practice only after a while)

"this sense of self with a big ass" - voice to text can occasionally make a blooper!

Incredibly helpful!!

Sense Of Self With A Big S 🙏🙏🙏 Nice !

Thanks for sharing the love of truth

That was powerful

Hey Angelo, I'm wondering if the sensations in the body seem makes it feel like a separate self looking out at something else, would you recommend to focus on the sensations more,at least at first,as opposed to the visual field?I hope the question is coherent, haha.