Sit Down... We Need to Have a Talk 

Part of the joy of the journey is playing peek-a-boo with the ego! It's just doing its best to survive; be kind. No need to kill it, no need to escape it. It never existed to begin with. 🔥💨

i just wanted to tell you how it continues to amaze me how generous “you “ are. I put that in quotes just because I realize it is isness being generous but your specific way of talking and sharing has helped me tremendously to see very very subtle aspects of what is going on. And yes I agree with you the top down teachings if you will can be powerful but not all the time and for everyone and in fact can seem to cause a lot of distress. So all this to say thank you so much for everything you’re doing. Your kindness overwhelms me at times.❤️

Great video! The process is daunting but the peace is priceless. You just can’t fathom how natural and ubiquitous you become to all that is present.

Yes yes yes, the mind is co-opting everything, this search as well. I am frustrated by this, this search is turned into a narrative and it sometimes feels hopeless. It seems to be thoughts all the way down sometimes.

Angelo, thank you so much for the clarifications! I've listened to this amazing video twice, and I'm sure I'll be coming back to it to reinforce the knowledge. 💯💯💯💯💯

One more thing I'd like to add, based on my very limited experience of all that process, but that can be good to share I think we people in my situation. There's can be a lot of frustration, self-pressure, anger, confusion, etc associated with all this process, and it's good to notice if what we do, have a beneficial effect on people in our immediate surrounding. In the way we interact with them. If yes, enjoy it, it's a great pleasure by itself. Second thing is, to learn to put ourself on the side of the road a little bit, I won't say to forget yourself because there's is no self and all that stuff, but, as a starter, just to be a little bit less self-centered. And really I am doing the same : "This is MY experience" "MY awakening" "MY confusion"...we need to learn to put our attention on the bigger picture from time to time. We are in the picture, yes, but we are not all of it, we are not even in the middle of it. Based on the benefical effect on other people, we have to understand that we don't do this whole process only for ourself. But also for people we like, and equally for people we dislike. Remembering and understanding that, will disengage a lot of self-pressure and have the beneficial effect to bring back the focus on what's going on as a whole. It's easy to forget that it's not only about "us" in a society where's the "me" is king. For what it worth, that was my opinion.

This awakening business is tricky, a bunch of paradox are involved. It feels like a self is going a spiritual path, attaining some stage but at the same time, the whole reality is already awakened with no one there to begin with to get enlightened.

Knew this would be good. So much gratitude.

I am so grateful for this post. It seemed like resistance was greatly diminished but I had a very intense dream last night. In the dream, I was very angry and yelling at someone. I asked, "Who gave us these egos? Who made us separate? Why are we here?" I woke up angry and that feeling has persisted though to a lesser degree. The mind is still desperately seeking to make sense of this existence. The mind wants to make sense of that which cannot be made sense of. There is no sense to be made. I will be listening to this video several times whilst I "flail existentially."

Thanks for the heart-to-heart~

With this post, you might just have given me an insight into the cause of a lot of trouble I've run into with quite a considerable number of people over the years who have shown considerable reluctance to engage in dialogue and enquiry into ultimate reality- namely their very deeply ingrained psychological attachment to notions of humanism. I intuitively feel that this will help to steer clear of unnecessary psychological suffering in future. Many heartfelt thanks Angelo.

This is really appreciated and needed to be heard. Thank you so much. 🙏

Yes exactly😔🙏 🌬

Thank you Angelo, your videos are so right on. This one was especially helpful. I appreciate your kindness.

OK, I’m listening. I’m ready.

I feel personally attacked. 😅😂 I am suffering. My usual self soothing, coping mechanisms no longer work. I’m ready to Be.

No mater how awake you perceive yourself to be, every moment of your life will cause emotions that will make you laugh, cry , hate and be fearful. How does one truly see that life is in movement, forever changing

Excellent

It is now so abvious to me experiencialy that there is no space and time and that everything is happening right here, right now, there is just this pure presence, should I now investigate the nature of thought, sensation and perception, or should I just keep investigating the nature of "I" ? Because even though it's so abvious that there is no time or space, there is still the sense of being a separate being, and that thought occurs inside the mind and others and the world outside the mind. And every thought that appears it feels like I am the one that thinks the thought.

I saw a comment in a Corey Bennett Boardman video saying to check out this channel. Very fortunate that this was just posted yesterday and it's my first introduction to this channel.

Wow....I just received an uppercut that knocked me out! ........this video should carry a warning! Half way through I had a vision of a black hole at the back of my head that was calling me out of the limited personality, I tried to be sucked in to it but couldn't quite get fully out. But I will be watching this many more times.... and trying many more times

Wow. Highly appreciated this one. It felt like.. something within me got touched, like something pierced trough.

Holy crap I needed to hear this!

Everything that seems to exist, consists of thoughts💭....also the "you" and the "I" "I am" everything, all apparent appearances... everything apparently separate... unseparated.... both equal.... with and without knowledge... no opposite⭕ Absolute and relative💯

I had this same understanding come to me the other day while questioning the source of my thoughts per my own practice of self inquiry aided in part by your videos pointing the way to your understanding. I realized that every thought arising was some kind of reasoning, excuse, or justification of why this or that thing was the way it was or wasn't going to happen whatever way etc. and it came to me to refer to my mind or ego as "the justification machine" and how, as your mentioning here, it will co-opt anything available to it - any little thing I've heard one time or thing that I think I know about something.

While in the throes of ego-stripping, the last thing I had time for was commenting on RU-vid.

It's strange, there is this memory from childhood, a story that a lot of us learn, and that is called the binding of Isaac. So, God say to Abraham, go there's and take your only son Isaac with you and sacrifice him there as a burnt offering. Abraham built an altar, bound his son Isaac and laid him on it, then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But an angel appear and everyone ends up fine but a random ram. Anyway, this story show the commitment and trust that Abraham put in this own "let it go" process and that, in the end, your own let it go process it's all in your head, it won't change reality (Isaac never died right) and you will ends up fine. But you have to go deep inside, and as deep as can go your love, equally deep goes your fears.

Getting anything from “it” seems illusory. The mind keeps trying to get a foothold, but there’s nothing to get. Almost as if presence just obliterated these types of questions. There really is no ground to stand on lol

Like some Dharma teacher said, the purpose of Dharma is to transcend samsara, not to improve it.

What I hear is that we should not carry any expectations or delusions of “what we think this is ?

At the end of Jon Levi's videos, he has a bonus section where he talks about different stuff and the one at the end of his "Artic Reset" video he talks about a technique he learned recently about handling emotions when they pop up in situations. I was working when I was listening to it but he talks about identifying the eomtions and letting it go through you and the first time he did it and had an overwhelming sensation of pins and needles and poking and proding all over his body. I don't think this is a new technique and i definitely didnt do his description any justice but I really just wanted to bring up Jon Levi lol His videos are extremely well done, thought provoking and are along the same lines of awakening. I think there is a mental/spiritual something going on and we're both at the center and periphery of it.

Oh, I love this directness! Wasn’t it Rumi who said, in describing the path to freedom, “The doorway there is devastation?” My own experience was like finding myself caught in the middle of a forest fire. Not only was there no doorway out, there was no way to avoid having “who I thought I was” consumed by the fire. Thanks for speaking truth, yet again. And thanks for knowing that the voice of truth has many tones, and ultimately doesn’t much care how “we” feel about what’s being said. 🙏🔥🤪🦋

Ty Angelo

whew! thank you💞

Bye bye self suit!

The mind can't figure it out and often comes through the back door. For me, the biggest obstacle in conversing can be misconstrued in comments. Words are not particularly nuanced. I remember when I first found you mentioning the word intimacy and that rang exactly. To me, it's like being the universe experiencing itself. And further still, presence is not who I am ultimately either

im glad.

I’m way ahead of you on this one, brother. After a life time of lies & deception - I celebrate living in the realm of the senses. > I feel very ALIVE ✨🤩✨

what or why are laws of nature? I guess this is a gut response to saying there is nothing that can be predicted, or just the wonderment at the transition between awareness and the habits of nature, and awareness AS a habit of nature.

How can I or we be happy when this is all a distorted play? I've learned way too much and it angers and scares me! Most don't know! It makes me feel alone! Well, I know you'll say just play my part but I keep thinking what's the point? Be happy, do good, help others?

This felt very much like being hit with a bamboo stick, as per the popular Zen metaphor. Or rather being punched in the gut ) Very awakening 😂🙏 Why is it that the fewer things you have left to grasp on, the harder the grasping becomes?

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What role does faith play in this process. Sometimes I lean back into the knowledge of experiencing a world beyond my misperceptions. A world of expansive love and peace beyond time. And the minimal amt of times I’ve experienced this leads me to re-remember what is true when my mind and emotions get “jacked up” by my misperceptions. Is my decision to step back into this believe/knowledge a hindrance or a help? Definitely helps my immediate distress.

A question I’m interested to see the response to: If it’s not about feeling better in some essential sense, why pursue awakening?

Hummm, the first 'rush' of my 'this', abt 3-4 mo ago ...was literally in 'word thought' at the time, "nothing matters" is that close A? It was transit but in memory very dazzling. Then started getting your transmissions. Which actually sort of make me sad for the lonelier out of place I get. And I was weird enough already!

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Ouch. But thank you

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right now I don’t feel like I even know why I’m here or what I’m doing. The concept of the “goal” feels like a cloud appearing as an image from afar, but revealing itself as non-existent once close enough to touch. I’ve been here before and I swore it off once the Truth of it hit me-the absolute realness of it sent me running back to distraction. I’d imagine that’s because I still (at some level) believed I was separate from it. But how tf am I here again? I find myself pulled to it like a crested wave drawn back to the ocean-but there’s a strong part of this wave that wants to remain perceptually individuated. 👴🏼👴🏼👴🏼

I don't know if I'm ready for this one. I don't wanna throw Buddhism out the window. I feel called out... Honestly, with most of your videos, I try to square it with Buddhist teachings.. and I usually can. With this one I'm kinda left with, what now? Ugh...too much thinking I guess

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Ooof, I just came here after consuming another set of extreme long guided meditations that came to the point of “pure knowing”; at that point I broke. I realized “I” don’t know sh1t, fooled myself for years. Twelve hours later I see this video, in which you talk as if you observed me this morning. Well. I did not want to see it. This understanding of nonduality became some kind of nasty trick inside a trick my mind played, trying to pull me leg or something. Another believe system. Game over.

I have kind of expecting that

Is it fair to say that the average person’s day to day reality IS a thought? That the thought is the entire filtered experience, not just something that COMES WITH unfiltered experience? And if that’s the case, then isn’t everything a thought (combination of sensations)? And some create the idea of an identity and some don’t?

Question based on this video. You say (and with you many liberated beings) that all knowledge should go and yet "Angelo" has knowledge he needs it in order to operate in the world, in order to read this message. Most probably I will never understand I just need to continue to do the exercise and find out myself.

Fredom,courage,dignity,,,,,,renounciation,,,no time no space,,,,,no World,,!It îs just beautiful from my point of View,,,,finnaly I found aReal partener for,,me,, Death and Life at the same time,,,,,All ,,I,, have to do îs just keep going or keep be stilnes,,,Why??!,,,cause I have kind a feeling - I am already There -

Is contentment not the answer? The ego can't co-opt that right? The ego requires discontent it seems.

Do you want me to show you my cat? :)

Can eating disorders like anorexia make your mind like it was before?

This was "randomly" suggested to me and I gave it a fair shake. Not that many would listen to or care what I think, but it's best to not take this so seriously. This is Eastern rubbish repackaged for the thousanth time by a Westerner for a Western audience. There's wisdom in the East just as in the West, but the only Eastern teachers who teach this way are cult leaders who want a classroom full of vegetables hypnotised by words. The ego is real, the absolute is real, this experience he calls "awake" is real, but you're being sold a load of nonsense by being told that "always awake" is a thing. You'll be chasing that dragon forever and that time will be wasted, while guys like this tell you they've achieved it and you only need to listen to them more to get there. You'll know it's a load of old nonsense when either you or someone else reacts to what I'm saying with raised blood pressure and raised voices - that would be the ego defending a phantom it's clung onto. It's the only evidence you need. The truth doesn't need defending. It survives on it's own just fine without us. If you're a Western person you're best off reading something like Being and Time by Martin Heideggar - a tough slog, but worth it. The path of the Westerner is to embrace the world for what it is, not run away from it. To authentically interface with the moments falling through your fingers like grains of sand. The guy is right, this isn't something you can buy and install like a computer mouse or a computer game add-on, there's undressing involved, but you actually have to work for this unless you're content with random periods of enlightenment that strike out of the blue. The careful cultivation of Thought (proper noun, capital T, Thought, and not the mundane crap we experience automatically). You're still you at the end of this process and you'll still experience uncomfortable moments, because that's part of the deal of being human. If you haven't noticed already, you'll notice eventually, that people busy deleting themselves from reality are selfish, unaware, irresponsible, (ironically) self-centered people. Especially when they're convinced they've achieved a permanent state of enlightenment, which makes them intolerable to be around.