I find it to be a very lonely existence after awakening so far. I'm surrounded by my family that live in the "matrix" and find any pointing I do, to be unbelievable or crazy. I know the truth and will continue to point them to this truth. I find myself pretending to be in the matrix, just to seem a bit more "normal" to them. But, all that said, this lonely existence, being spiritually awakened, is so much better than the suffering mind I used to live in. You are the best Angelo!
wesfitz72 - see if you can find other friends/people who've also experienced an awakening. Maybe online, maybe closer than you think. I am very fortunate in having discovered a few people in my orbit, and we speak frequently about all things related. It dispels some of that loneliness you mention. Good luck.
@@SimonM282I understand your disatisfaction with the present moment. I think you should as the dude above mentioned to find people that you could talk with together. And also try to see that your sadness stems from disatisfaction with the present moment. You could put your awareness on other things that would fulfil your being, and take away the uneccesary identification with your family. Have faith that the universe got your back, because probably the reason why we are un-satisfied with our experience, is over-identification with it. Try to discharge it in a healthy way. I am suggesting that you look for ways of feeling more fulfilled and to transition away from your current negative mindset. I believe that it is important to acknowledge your dissatisfaction with the present moment, but to take steps to try and shift your focus to something that can help you move towards feeling more content.
if you already are completely aware of the TRUTH (which is the same as REALITY) you cannot feel lonely anymore because all there is is you resp. you are IT, without any OTHER that might be missing ... or might be in need of conversion.
I feel you. It does hurt me and a lot of people so much. We feel heavily divided and we can't wait for them for so many life times. To finally start "Awaking" to our Spiritual Level or via Soul Evolution. I use to remember a lot of things before getting caught up in the Matrix. Then Forgot about being in The Matrix. Now being able to recall somethings. Being a Light-Worker for these Sleeper Souls is complicated. You want to help. You want All Souls to be free of these unnecessary Soulless Desires but then you also remember some souls see no point of desiring Oneness. Or Unplugging from The Matrix.
Who am I? I no longer know. I used to think I knew, but that person is dead, perhaps he never existed. Whatever reality that is experienced happens only in your consciousness. You are the Experience. May you sense an abundance of Joy and Gratitude.
Powerful video! I have started notice so clearly at times how its all just thoughts! the past the future, me, my life my opinions and beliefs, even all the spiritual beliefs nothing more than thoughts which often seem to be backed up by an emotion in the body, then more thoughts about what these feelings mean or why they are there and what's causing them and what needs to change. Still just thoughts! Any yet the simulation continues to drag me into its show and it feels like its me and the thoughts have validation and are true again. Thanks for your clarity and for all your content
I've been playing this MMORPG called “The Wheel of Samsara” for over 42 years. It’s a simulated reality with an escape room component. I am hoping my character can get out of the escape room and enter Nirvana this go around. I hear the best winners of the game come back as Bodhisattvas to help newer players.
I think this is my number one contraction or Block… Because it feels painful to acknowledge and more painful at the thought of it being an illusion.. that there is some thing to hold onto, a magic in the spiritual realm that will guide me and protect me and keep me happy and thriving… That there’s a lesson and things that are bad that there’s karma for good and bad… that there is purpose in my doing… That there is a power bringing love into my life and healing me and protecting me… That there is a power guiding me to the right path of happiness and success, and love… The strength of my spirituality, the spine of it the foundation feels built on that belief that there is an inner magic bigger than me but without brings a fear of emptiness and loneliness, maybe
maybe there is. just not "within you". not saying that i know. i honestly don't. i found it very helpful the last days/weeks to work with believes about perception. maybe it can be helpful to look into what there is when you believe that there is a "within me". what comes up when you see also that as a believe?
'the dirty little fingers of the mind'. Love that one. Going through the early stages of your book and, watching the mind, this mind makes 'monkey-mind' look like it's in a coma. Didn't realize just how constantly I'm get transported away in my mind's constant conveyor belt of stuff. Dirty little fingers of the mind seems apt.
Yes this is so good.. as a devout "born again christian" for years and then having the experience of pure consciousness I actually felt like the wind got knocked out of me...sad and terrifying for a moment, knowing the longing for God would never be satiated, that no object out there would ever be found. It was a tough paradigm shift. But once realized I became less of a someone devoted to god and more of an experience a movement a happening.. a merging of something haha, i still don't know really.. "it's " all inside, that's all I can say about it. Is it weird that I can "feel " those lights in your background? and I wouldn't mind getting a link to your shirt-maker 😏
I thought the question was more directed towards say the physical reality of how you see things and the way you go about each day ... And are you only actively thinking while doing a task or at work? Just stillness,calm ,spacious inside ? What does your visual field look like if you don't see objects separate from one another .......?
There's only our experience and nondual can be clearly seen for sure, but you can't agree with anybody that say they know the truth beyond our experience. This all blabling of "everything is one and the whole universe is consciousness" is just exactly that, blabling as noone knows the truth to the universe. We can see our experience only and within our systems we can clearly see how things work, but that's about it.
I am the embodiment of Love was told told to me by my God (Truth is God) who came into the world to reveal Truth; that is what you and everybody else is also (the embodiment of Love).
I do BELIEVE you are on to something here ;) Thank you, for pointing me to the undeniable. I just love that this resonates so deeply without much investigation. It's all here.
Thanks for this pointing Angelo. To me it seems like most ideas, beliefs and social structures are just blindly followed and just made up. Social control has also shaped things. Religions similar. There is something I feel in the background of this life. Commonly called consciousness or awareness. My interest is to connect with that. More understanding. Why I'm here and where I'm going when it's over. This life is very strange.
“arising with and dependent upon” ding ding ding and i don’t know where to look to find out who holds beliefs either 🤷♀️ i don’t even know where the one is who would say if i’m awake or not……. there just is awakeness…… maybe i’ve missed the boat lol but i can’t find a boat or a passenger…….. just blissfully lying in bed with a cold :) or so they say……🫠
I've been very inspired by your teaching/pointing, Angelo. Grateful. I'm interested in recognizing beliefs that are so ingrained that I'm not even aware that everything's being run through this or that particular belief-filter (if that makes sense). It's pretty cool when an uncovering happens 😀 (Ok, so where might I get ahold of the awesome tee shirt exactly like the one you're wearing in this video? 🤩)
Hi Angelo, I thought it might be helpful to draw your attention to the ideas of the German psychologist Erich Fromm, who suggested that there are two main ways in which the human brain operates. He called them the ‘Having Mode’ and the ‘Being Mode’. When language is used in the context of the ‘Having Mode’, difference within the understanding of division occurs. In the ‘Being Mode’, difference is expressed merely as a distinction, an aspect of verbal communication, and not in terms of division. It is this division that leads towards friction and ultimately violence, whereas if difference is seen merely as a verbal construct, employed by those truly wishing to communicate, then what he understands as ‘the art of loving’ has a chance to unfold. I would wonder exactly how loving the root of questions such as ‘what are your beliefs’ would be? Perhaps the way forward is to be openhearted with energies such as these and to allow awareness to lead the way.
My money is on that life is somewhat of an experiment and some entity is trying to figure out how to utilize human beings or the soul to attain something valuable, some metaphorical gold. We definitely do not exist as some nihilistic/random accident of the big bang. Something definitely wants us to be here, living
I like to think of it as cells, each cell has its own individual purpose, they have a goal that they themselves cannot understand or conprehend, but its still their lifes, and the goal could be only utilzed on a collective level
Is what you point to in your videos simply the position of “just being here now” without adding or subtracting anything to experience? Another description could be “resting as awareness”? It feels as though self inquiry and looking for the “me” is a very active “doing something” process, whereas “just being here now” is a dropping of doing anything.
I think the question about your take on reality is sincere especially for those who are listening to you and regard you as some kind of teacher or at least looking some guidance. It's not to start argument or things like that but just to know where you actually stand on these very common spiritual matters. You don't seem to answer that though. Instead you turn it around back at the questioner with so many "I want you to ..." Take for eg The world is a dream which is very commonly expressed in spirituality. Do you agree? If you do is it just intellectually or really felt and experienced as such. Another related one is for eg Ramana's question that he sometimes ask some people, Are you in the world or is the world in you? How would you answer that? Honestly answering such questions is very good for self-reflection.
Sometimes these pointings are really a matter of timing. If it doesn’t land now it may later. This is deep stage realization I’m pointing to here. We’re way beyond beliefs.
On the contrary, Angelo *did* provide an answer (even if tacitly/implicitly; perhaps even "unknowingly", as he eventually stated that the question made no sense and that there was no answer). I agree that at first the attempt to answer seemed evasive, but the answer is there: anything viewed from a frame of reference, defined through labels, is relative. Including notions of "reality" individuals may have. In this context, an antonym of relative is absolute. And only that which is Absolute (not depending on reference points or reference frames or paradigms based on definitions and labels) is Real. Therefore, all relative things are only partially real, at best (everything is real, to different degrees, within the boundaries of paradigms). Only the Absolute is absolutely Real. Regarding "Are you in the world or is the world in you?" Think about this: would it make a difference? How does it matter? All "you" "have" is your *experience* (sorry for the quotation marks around so many words; language is often... restrictive, insufficient, imprecise, inadequate, unclear, presumptuous). How you define or label your experience ("the world in you" vs "you in the world") wouldn't seem to change whatever is Fundamentally True about experiencing (*that* which Angelo points to), would it? And Angelo wonderfully says he's not concerned with "view" or "reality", but with *you*. Recall the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland: WHO *ARE* *YOU*? [Meditating on that, "Who AM I?", or simply "I AM", can be helpful to gain insight as to the questions you ask]. I don't know whether this has been addressed in other videos or not (I've only seen a few, rather casually, starting sometime last year), but a few quick questions I would pose for Angelo are: 1) "Where" "are" we (where is the subjective, "individualized" Consciousness we experience as "self", where is Experience) when we're "unconscious"? (when the body is sleeping without dreaming; or knocked out by sedative drugs, or in a coma, or after death). 2) Is sleep a spiritual need or merely a requirement of the physical body? 3) How much do you sleep?
The question wasn't clear: was the person who asked it referring to what they experience and label as *their* (local, subjective) "reality", or were they enquiring about the illusion of a shared, "objective reality" concerning things within specific paradigms? Or were they enquiring Absolute Reality, free from reference points and reference frames? Indeed, what did they mean by "real" and "reality"? "Existing" (being perceivable, thinkable, knowable, *experienceable*) within the subspace of possibilities that the average, ordinary human has access to (physically, and/or mentally, and/or spiritually? Either way, there *is* an answer to the question and you gave it yourself: all views (thoughts framed by perception), from any possible reference point and within any reference frame, are relative. Therefore, things confined by paradigms are only "relatively real" ("relatively true"), within the confines of the paradigms that define them. Everything defined through references and frames is "real", to different degrees. Only that which lacks labels and transcends all references and frames [which you point to often in your wonderful videos] is Real (in this context, as you've said, one might entertain labels for practical purposes, such as the All, or the Absolute [or perhaps even Nothingness?]).
I might ask what you believe about reality to see if you are on the same path as I and maybe we can further each others knowledge. I am all about learning the highest truths I can handle in this world we find ourselves in right now.
I'm not very interested in this anymore... it all seems unnecessary- so what is going on? When does it stop? How does it stop? On what accord? Mine? Could I just phase out? I've gotten a glimpse of what it looks like and it just seems like death... Is this all there is to fulfill that empty state? Am "i" constantly trying to achieve a state of fullness within my existence to satisfy this void? And then I'm reallllly into life. Just distracting myself- following this whole mechanism that retracts me from what I have found... that emptiness is freedom. So then meditation seems positive to the cause... but I am bound by this existing... I have to end mediation.
What a shot,,! Yes ,,,this îs the relative World from thounsands of years,,,,,,,it does mean that I am apart from this world,,,,no,,,it mean that I am just I am,,,,,___
I'd be curious to know how you think reality works. Not just you but anyone's ideas or musings. Damned odd set of circumstances we find ourselves in here. I can't think of a more unlikely occurrence than the ongoing unfolding occuring here now. Difficulty swallowing a contemplative being not having been curious about it. failure in my imagination, I suppose.
Ok, I'll ask the same question. I want as literal of an answer as you can give. Reality is as it is. If one doesn't know what it is, then one should say such.
Depends what you mean by religion I suppose but sure, the origins of what we call Western religions did all originate in the middle/near East. Native American religion?
