Nisargadatta Maharaj says that we are not even the thinkers of our thoughts. If we were, we would know what our next thought is going to be. We would also choose only those thoughts that make us feel happy.
OMG I've been looking for myself in the reflection of others! Everytime I see inauthenticity I forget it's a reflection! Mind blown I am a bloody human!! (edit) Oh I didn't mean you. I'm watching other stuff. Iam deeply grateful to you. ; o )
@@nat998 Hi Nat It's been a very experiential weekend. Yes resting in being video hit hard. I was finding nothing with who am I or what am I. So resting in being the thought came where is karen? The thought was barely there and weirdness lol. It felt like I was forcefully expanding out in all directions. Like falling and flying at the same time!!! Then more layers of old stuff would come up ( lots of tissues) and then more ahas. Still feeling a bit raw, but this is what I signed up for. "In this world we're just beginnin' To understand the miracle of livin' Baby, I was afraid before But I'm not afraid anymore" Heaven Is a Place on Earth Belinda Carlisle Have a great evening Nat
When I saw the title of this video I suddenly realized how odd it is that one would even ask this question. It shows just how deeply entangled the sense of self & thought really is. Love the pic of the woman thinking about whether it’s a thought 😂 Great video as always 🙏🏼🫶
Thank you Angelo. Your massages about thoughts really helped me to go deeper into self consciousness. Yet, i still have this thought repeatedly that is I cannot catch the beginning of my thoughts. When I’m aware a thought, the thought has been for a while. Thank you 🙏
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake amazing.the first time i tried this, the brain said “next thought”, then waited and waited. The next thought didn’t appear for a while,,,the following thought was “Dr Angelo, this works!” :) I found the body is a little in tense though.
The lady(thumbnail)thinking about the thought, is the thought. So a thought can be stored in memory? ( thinking about what I was thinking) Irrespective of the content of a thought, whether the content is true or not, can be identified or acted upon or not by some separate self/a.i , it requires mental energy to create and sustain a thought. When the brain switches of the tap providing the mental energy to that specific thought = doubt. Waking Up= switching off of mental energy taps by the organism over time.
Reading your book, and I have reached the thoughts chapter. Loved so much the spectrum analogy describing the link between thoughts and the sensation through emotions. And adding examples helped tremendously ❤️🙏🏻
Damn thought. It pretended to me until it got caught. Then it tries to be my best friend, “alway there to be helpful”😵💫 shows up uninvited… Got tricked way too many times 😡
you're a very good teacher,one can feel you emanate what you teach,which is not even something personal but Consciousness itself.The only thing i would do differently is use the term awakening as the ultimate realization,not just as a glimpse. I know in this time this word has been abused,same for enlightment so it would be nice return it to its real meaning,it makes even things simpler and clearer plus it does not feed the ego,because we know how the ego is cunning and will use this awakening-glimpse as a badge or even fool the person into believing that now is illuminated,ahah funny because we know the person cannot become illuminated,awakening is impossible for the person,because is the very thing that prevent it from happaning,so it is what is needed to be trascended . (sorry if there are some errors this is not my language) many blessings to everyone and may we all realize what is Real .
I'm currently having this exact issue with my thoughts leading me down the unhappy path, and lo and behold I woke up this morning and saw your video and it was exactly what I needed! Very grateful for you and sooooo love your videos!
@Simply Always Awake Thank you for your tireless work. If it is possible, could you comment or make a video on cause and effect. It's a sticking point in me, I've recently dropped the seeker but this keeps floating to the surface, the quandary is if its just this, how can there be cause and effect that requires time? Love you dude, even if you do nothing 😁
I'm now reading the chapter on thoughts in your book. The initial questions you pose to us on thoughts, while seemingly presented as kindof a warm-up exercise not meant for deep analysis, was very powerful for me. Very accessible and enjoyable but also challenging. In particular, I found looking into positive thoughts intriguing and elusive. I realize how much easier and more common it is for us to investigate "negative" thoughts. Exploring "feelgood" thoughts becomes quite mysterious and difficult to explore. So, just wanted to say thank you 🙂
The most resisting thought is the "singing thought" in my mind. Regarding other thoughts I can simply direct my awareness to them and they disappear but the singing in my mind resists, even if I keep asking myself who/what is aware of this singing... :-(
Hearing this I see an image of a child whose thoughts gather in the hand and then again play out. Over and around themselves they spin, made to perform interesting tricks and stalls. It's all so terribly interesting and distracting that the little one forgets that it is just a game and has made a serious pursuit of the yo-yo of doubt. 💛🤟
@@nat998 I am certainly in awe of childlike wonder. I made the ego a child in this comment, for that is how those thoughts seem to me. An unending series of questions and thoughts. All the mental hoops and tricks we play on ourselves thinking that life is so serious, that we must do this or that. I guess it's difficult to accept. At least in the beginning, don't we all yoyo between peace and that which is not?💛
When trapped in these thought loops, we circle endlessly. for an example: The blame loop. We see, we reason, we blame, we see, we reason, we blame etc. the off ramp to the blame loop is to take an introspective. to realize your part in the loop that you've previously left out of the blame. once you see your part, you can accept it and forgive yourself and blame falls away. The thoughts of doubt can be mollified in a similar technique. I don't know how to stop thinking so I've learned to classify my thoughts in a more honest way. like everything else they just are.
@@nat998 😀 It's hard to relate. Even as I examine how it all works, I am also light of heart. I confess I never went into the specifics of dual and non dual. I just go with the feeling, yeah? I am both and that is more than the sum of it's parts in a way that is so beyond me and simple that it is hilarious and I can only live in sincere and not insincere. hehe
@@nat998 It's hard to relate that in a very real way we all have found what we are ultimately seeking. If there is a there and that is where we are headed, then that implies a here in which we are presently. Like the crystals we unearth, we have everything we already need provided to us by what is. Even this SENSE of separation, like the walls of a geode, provides the environment needed for crystalizing. lol "I'm your brother nature" - Bootsy Collins. "We are stardust, we are golden we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" - Joni Mitchell. Happy, sad, good, evil, these are the energy in the wave and it's our "job" to be this, it must be because that perfect energy already truly exists in infinity.
Do you have any recommendations for resources for the athlete's mind? It seems like the most difficult path to traverse realization through electronic sports: an art of deconstruction (any sport; the art of a warrior), rather than the soothing art of construction (typically music/graphic art), all happening on a screen and in a human mind simultaneously.
Do you have vids/could make one about disassociation/depersonalization? Been in the loop of that + a lot of daydreaming and then occasional glimpses of what seems really really normal and true.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake It feels like there's an effort that keep the thoughts flowing. Like there's an effort behind every attention and every deriberate thought.
Can questioning the emptiness in the mind and telling yourself that you have thoughts refill the mind with stuff? Im really looking for solutions, because with this empty mind i do not have a perspective on the future.
Who am I? Freeing my mind from thoughts has been quite the journey… and who is leading me on this journey? (Trust intuition!) What am I willing to believe? Who do I thank for leading me along this journey of self discovery, mind exploration, life experience? Who is the inside instigator? Who am I? When I look at these words I want to put a caveat… I’m not done yet, boundlessness is still an experience for me… But who am I justifying? To whom am I proving my authenticity? What exactly do I mean by authenticity…? If I say I’m not there yet or not always there or not fully there… To whom am I being truthful? Am I speaking the truth? Am I even saying what I intended? Is the status quo what I thought I believed? Or what I’m removing belief from? Who am I? When I post this comment who am I posting it for? “Just in case”??? And why is it such a stressful event (Sound reasonable! Be authentic! Be reasonable! Sound authentic!)? Why am I pleased with myself? Why am I ashamed of myself? No. Those are thoughts. Don’t trust thoughts. Trust this. Who am I? Ah.
Great inquiry. Also important that at whatever point one clearly sees / experiences the “answer” to “Who Am I?” They realize it’s important not to use questions to lead yourself back into doubt/into thought. Even if it is thoughtless thought. But rather to lean into vivid experience right now more like “What is this?” The experience itself being the answer. Can you sense this distinction? It becomes irrelevant who or what is making this happen , because happening is making it happen, so just let it overtake you ❤️
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake i’m not sure… about the distinction of who/what/when/where… But then again I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever been able to sense a distinction when referring only to my perspective or experience or whatever. As a matter of fact… all the question words seem somewhat the same and sometimes asking who and sometimes asking where and sometimes asking when and sometimes asking what… i’m never really sure which word will be applyable to point me toward the actual. I often feel like I’m spinning to find which will allow me to settle in - away from thoughts. “I’m curious…” and “I like to reverse-engineer truths cuz why should I just believe..…” so thoughts get momentum pretty quickly. It’s been only recently that I feel any sense of attention away from thoughts… perfect convergence of how you point and what I can feel into from your pointing 🙏 Thank you. I take a lot of comfort from knowing the happening is making this happen. Perfect words! 🙏 Right up until the point that RU-vid delivered you to my feed I could not fully believe I would ever fully escape the world of thoughts. Thanks to you and clarity of your words I don’t constantly feel “why is this happening? what’s wrong with the world? Why am I hearing all this? how do I stop it? What am I not getting??” So I’m in uncharted territory and at this point I’m rambling and trying to sound both reasonable and authentic and starting to panic and shame spiral so I’ll suffer just for a second while wondering if I should post reply or not or edit then post or scrap it blaahhhhh cuz I know I’ll do it :) Thanks Angelo 🙏🙏🙏 you’re amazing
