What is the Best Technique for Awakening? 

43 - “fought” depression and anxiety my whole life. I am finally beginning to realize what a beautiful gift it is - to be in touch with the “unsatisfactoriness.” Right now I believe my journey is to look at those feelings deeply, to acknowledge them, to feel them, not fight them. Am I those feelings? Who or what is feeling this? It seems that many people have experienced depression as a catalyst for awakening. If so, what a beautiful gift! And, the more I do this, the less “depressed” I feel. But, the point is not to reduce depression…that is just a bonus. I have a profound sense of standing on the edge of so with amazing - I’m not there yet but it’s close and I can feel it. Your videos and meditations have come at the right time - 5 years ago I wouldn’t have been ready.

There is so much innocence here. There are thoughts that protection of this vulnerability might be good, but those thoughts are like a pebble in a pond- they drop and land nowhere. It’s intense, and so new. Thanks for everything you do Angelo. It is so appreciated and beautiful

Thought and doubt, one and the same. Ouch! That hit!

1- A recognition of suffering 11:25 2- Recognizing the nature of thought and doubt 15:18 3- A curiosity that arises, What am i really ? 18:27 4- Recognizing the unknown 20:35 5- Simply instinct 22:25 6- Surrender to the process 23:20

Through EXTREME luck and grace one may have the karma of meeting and recieve a blessing from a liberated Buddhist Guru.

And you've done a lot of videos on this subject, but I love all the pointers. It's like you're saying "what about this pointer?.... what about this one? And this one?...." You provide a wonderful service. Thank you Angelo.

Small suggestion: the video is very successful at guiding you into the meditative/inquiring 'state' (so to speak) that is hinted at, so it might be nice to leave a bit of time at the end with just the ambience and visuals to let the viewer bask in that space of the present. Also as a side note: I'm glad that you're sharing this with people. This channel wasn't my introduction to awakening, but this honed, simple, and fundamental approach to it is what resonates the most and I imagine there's lots of other people who won't really develop an interest unless exposed to it in this more secular and direct form.

you are right, formal meditation is not enough, the inquiry has to be there the whole day, and it has to be deep, like an obsesion

stop „here“❣️“This it is“

Focusing on videos like this one is a good way... Believing this can happen.

There's a lack of confidence, but I don't know what self-doubt could possibly mean. I'm here. I showed up. I can't doubt that.

Sometimes I get lost in all this if I’m honest. Wow thank you resetting me this video I’ll keep coming back to ❤️

Just lost for words after this. Reminded me of the song Killing me softly ❤️

I just love DeAngelos face! God bless everyone amazingly and abundantly! 😁🙏❤️🙌😊

Thank you . Paul.

Re being in a group. I joined the Headless Way group & soon felt BAD about being there, even tho I had several "realizations". Not saying the group was good or bad, just that I was NOT comfortable there, so I STOPPED attending meetings. I'm not good in or at groups & tend to BOTHER others! 😮

LORD, keep me with out this me HERE.

Re "GROUP EGO". i found that ego in 12 step Recovery groups, every Religion & nondual group, club, communitee, gang, school, family, band, friendship, etc. that i was ever near or part of!!! Group Ego = "We vs them!" ...We are BETTER THAN you!!! IT'S SICK!!!! 😢😢😢

Thank you Angelo! You deeply cleared it all. Brilliant masterclass❣️

This was incredibly clear and well structured. Very helpful. Thank you. 🙏❤

So grateful for these pointers 🙏🏻☀️🌈❤️

geez, this is potent

And maybe the best and final advice is to STOP seeking. I’m feeling that it’s time to say so long to the teachers and gurus. I’m reaching the shore. Thank you Angelo for being a lighthouse.

This was beautiful beyond words ❤❤

Could you give advice on surrender vs following your passion - If you feel stuck or like you’re in a slump, how do you know if it’s life telling you you need to change certain exterior aspects of your life around such as your career path and pursue a passion in order to start feeling better again. Or if it’s life telling you to simply surrender and embrace and feel what is appearing. How do you navigate between the two

I would really love for you to create an entire guide on how to ask the right questions to ask in inquiry. I feel like I am definitely at the inquiry stage; however, I am not perhaps asking the right questions.... I need to figure out how to ask the right questions...

Okay it happened and I can explain Elon’s problem with V12 FSD and clearing out all the responses I could possibly have in all situations put there by me and my ego. Elon must have named That blue line, our possible intended paths in FSD. As I solved the problem with my large library of responses (they all marched out together the other night in another of your videos); and in today’s video I realized (because I have been using FSD) having all of Ego’s responses gone, I can see reality as it is, I have a new identity. The solution for V12 is essentially the reverse of this! I would love to take my new self and work on Elon’s team solving FSD, I really think I can see some of what needs to be done.

Thanks for the sharing the love of truth, to help guide us. Love and courage to all to come here. Gratitude, Peace and Love to you and Violet for your selfless very helpful sharing of experiences of life, for the good of ALL.

Very helpful 💫

With all love ❤️ Thanks for all you do Mr Angelo. 😊

Thank you, Angelo. I don't think there's another video out there like this one.

listened early this morning...every word...described my experience of living...wandering & identified almost completely w the reflections of consciousness...missing, not seeing the obvious... here now❤...am being let go

This was powerful

Last Sunday when I watched your video, I was brought to tears. Was awesome. Keep doing videos. I'm in Parker, Colorado. Wouldn't mind bumping into you.

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I have experience all the pointers you are speaking about, how does remembering take a part? The stronger your memory more understanding? 🙏❤

Nice delivery 🙏

Speaking from the place of truth and wisdom. Thank you!

I tried to understand this video but I couldn't, I'm trying to understand what being conscious of consciousness means. I just can"t if finding contentment in thoughts doesn't work then I just need to find that in my experience of existing right? how am I supposed to do that when I have thoughts about how I should have an experience, when it only keeps me from experiencing things without thinking. I cant make it happen but that only is understood from having gotten there from the sense that I was engaging this process so I guess I just need to give in to the illusion that I'm the one doing this to see when I'm not. Was thinking about how old my mom looked while watching this, what's worse is that I have had these repeating thoughts of "what will you do when people start to get older at thirty you better learn how to spend time with them before it's too late, all the while playing video games because I could not stand to be bored since twelve, my family loves me I know that and I couldn't have asked for a better mom, yet I never got any help for these thoughts when they started to appear at six and seven but not till twelve would it start to happen more than once couple a months and haunt me weekly or every other day for maybe several points of the day. By fifteen it be all day everyday and started to get worse up till eighteen till it plateaued, yet this has all been before! i've turned forty five all before the shittiestparts of life that ive spent my entire life worrying about even happened. What will I do thoughts like you said won't help it will only make me suffer more. I had a change half a year ago where I re-had an experience that occurred at seven where I was just in the presence of being, where self knowledge existed ontologically, with an understanding of what I was without any knowledge or thoughts. Unlike at seven this was much more subtle and tame I didn't dissolve like at seven thought my sense of who I am was looser not so much in my thoughts. Yet I cant make that happen, ugghhhhh, suppose I must treat it like sleep where sleeping is not an action but rather something that you can modify the likelihood of occuring by dimming the lights laying in bed and turning the volume down. So I have to influence this process rather than direct it, like with my attention to my attention, softly with a loose concentration that can be sustained through its discontinuity while having it involuntarily return. It feels like theres this awkward spot where its sometimes something I don't regulate whatsoever and other times it feels like I'm doing it all. I just am tired of being in despair, have wondered sometimes if most of the valence from thinking comes from my visual imagination, if maybe I were to be an aphasic then maybe my thoughts wouldnt feel so bad. The more detailed my thoughts are visually the more they sting, and that is unfortunate since my imagination is very vivid it's why I have a gift for painting, although I probably could paint with aphasia if I had it so that's probably not true. Although the part on suffering from thoughts by visual imagination I'm not sure on, wonder if there are any studies on, that's besides the point. I understand this video but only when I'm not the one doing this, which is so frustrating. Maybe I just need to feel everything rather than evaluating my feelings in order to have this first shift. I think as long as I can break out of the habit of thinking about my feelings then ill be ok. That may be eighty percent of what I need to do, oh boy shame here I come!!!

These are very good pointers❤, the thinking system is so used to see the world through its own system, that it was not imaginable for this system that the "world" is not only subject object reality, yes, it asks how can I see behind objects, behind imagination, behind the world I have created as real... it is totally blind behind in this. It asks how can the world be seen without the tools I have to see it? , behind the thinking or imagination, ...? And the answer comes by itself.. There is actually something else behind this system behind the thoughts, feelings, stories. it can be seen but can't be explained since the only tool we have to explaine it have to go through the system that do not see it 😅.

Wow, thank you so much for this video. Love the directness of this one. At the end when you talk about letting go, it almost "defeated" my mind, I feel like I caught a glimpse of The Edge.

Thank you! Wonderful🙏💕

I am alone and afraid… why….. how to get rid of me…why won’t it go

Thank you ❤

Really helpful, thank you, Angelo.

Thank you

My feeling is that consciousness has been "attached" and ignited onto this happening, and I don't know how it happened.....

I don't have that feeling of being generally unsatisfied, so I'm not suffering. Is there something wrong with me perusing Awakening when I don't consider that I suffer? I have searched, there is not this type of suffering within me at all. How do I make myself suffer?

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Beautiful explanation Angelo! Great video!

So good video gives many answers and makes thing more simple.

Very clear and helpful, thank you.

Beautiful ❤ thank you🙏

How does being on the other side feel?

Class video ❤ x

This must be your best video ever. Since your last best video ever.

The mind must undo what the mind has created [Nisargadatta Maharaj]

Beautiful, thank you…truly only vigilance to the razors edge of just This. Do you still have talks in the Boulder area?

How do we reconcile the idea that we must not seek with the dopamine system that awards us for seeking?

Just my experience, but the greatest value of meditation (i.e., a regular time of stable attention spent in relative seclusion) comes from experiencing suffering (and joy) right there on the cushion (or chair or mattress). If one meditates to get a reprieve from suffering, a real opportunity is missed to investigate the (empty and fluid) nature of suffering--(gently) turning towards physical and mental pain can be a real game changer. And this approach then needs to be taken off the cushion into daily life--there's no real separation between these settings (or anything at all).

thanks

All there is is awareness

Would you be able to credit the soundtrack to this video? It plays in my head all the time and I’d love to download it

Where did you get the t-shirt you're wearing in this video?

The power of Now?

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I'm very grateful for your videos.

Hey Angelo - not sure if you've had other people ask this but practicing both mediation and inquiry has released energy through my body that causes intense body shaking and physical pain. The phenomenon is directly related to mindfulness. It feels "blocked" at my throat. I've had this energy blockage issue for 3-4 years now and I don't know what to do with it. Can you shed any light on how to navigate this as I have no idea what - if anything - I have to do about it.

Thank you!! ❤ I have a hard time getting my head around the kind of suffering I go through which is based in OCD. I almost feel like it’s outside the suffering that spiritual teachers talk about which is more inherent in life itself. Mine just seems like there’s no purpose to it and it just reeks havoc on my life without serving this spiritual path. Just wondering what your take is on mental issues based on say, brain chemistry. 🙏

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I used to be a Christian. I am pretty much convinced that the awareness of being "Saved" is similar to becoming Awake. I think the story of Jesus is the pointer, or vehicle that people use to become awake. So the question is, is it ok to use a somewhat fictitious story to achieve the state of being Awake? Can truth come from something that is not true?

Traditions can easily be taken for a belief, a lot of hindrance I would say, too many fixed concepts too.

So what is the best technique?

have you heard the song from drake called "gods plan"? Its music video is soo good. It encompasses exactly what you were saying. Great music video about life and identity. Truly profound

Going to sleep😊 Is the best technique for awakening.

Super beautiful poignant, I wish I could hire a “closer” someone to just nudge me over. Specks of fear❤

As long as you BELIEVE in god, you are not awake. Simple.

watch MOOJI

No Technique ... 🙏🏽

I wish you had included psychedelic drugs on your short list of things which are merely experiences however profound they are.

I wonder if this is why I have never been able to assimilate to groups (I’ve tried many different times many different groups) because there was always the feeling that there was little authenticity to the group dynamic and noticed I was acting a type of way depending on the group. This really doesn’t end does it 🫠😂🙏🏾

The last place you’d ever think to look is where it is! Ahhhh 😅🎁💎🪷

Finally i came to my right sens; I can’t do it, I surrender. Then I said to the core; I’m fine, not perfect, but okay - so now you can use me, I’m yours ❤ That changed everything 🕳🫧💫🌬️✨🌈👁