What is the Simplest Approach to Awakening? 

1- Don 't believe your thoughts 2- 6:09 Turn toward the mysterious and dont Turn away 3- 9:19 Question all beliefs (similar to #1 but more active): why do I believe that ? 4- 12:14 Just relax and let all experience overtake you

#1-you are not who you think you are. #2-by direct experience start determining what you are not.

"I don't know" can be applied to everything. I don't know what I want, I don't know who I am, I don't know what will make me happy. I just don't know.

Whatever is happening, is the path to enlightenment. - Pema Chodron

Turn towards the mysterious and don't turn away is brilliant!! I'm definitely going to practicing this!!!

In three words: Rest as awareness Compliments of Adyashanti Very similar to your rest as the I don't know, the Mystery. 🙏

This pointing is phenomenal but I can't overestimate the value of going back to listen to all the episodes that ZDogg and Angelo posted at least a year ago.

The practise should be as simple as possible but be applied as consistently as possible. Adyashanti also said something like this. Thanks 👍

❤ love all simple guides, but still tripping over zero distance 😂 when I close my eyes I totally get what you mean but eye open and noticing that I am sitting on a chair can’t convince myself zero distance between me and the chair 😂 but thank you for all your guidance

Freedom from belief/disbelief is bliss

Thanks Angelo - this was great! Pithy and to the point. I’m still looking at a belief that says ‘something is going to happen’ so this helped.

So relevant for what I'm going through atm. Crippling morning anxiety. I do think it is partly due to ssri withdrawal but nonetheless, the fear isn't coming from nowhere. It is enormously challenging to allow these intensely uncomfortable feelings but I find that allowing them, talking to them, seeing that they're rooted in my inner child and speaking to my inner child has been so soothing. Yes, loving these emotions. Hard to do when in the midsts of a wave but it's really the only way...

Mysterious... Let's say I'm listening to a good pop song. It stirs emotions, it seems to open my heart. It also makes me strongly long for something big and unspecific. It can make me bored with what I was doing until I heard it. I may listen to it over and over to stay in that longing. What is it? I always thought of it as a desire/infatuation. But I wonder, if something there comes right from the Source, even if not in a quiet/content way. Been thinking about it for a long time. It's subtle but powerful and has a sense of deep dissatisfaction, longing for something Other.

Really excellent pointers. I spontaneously turned to and recognized "the mysterious" (or the "enormous" or "awesome," another two imperfect descriptions) when contemplating the well-worn question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and marinating in it many times (and letting the words of the question fade away while staying solely with the mystery [sic] and wonder the question evokes, at least for me--other queries or prompts may work better for someone else). This "turning to the mystery" (which is nothing in particular, just extraordinarily ordinary) has been part of my practice ever since.

I'm so glad you answered this person's question. I love love love this video response.

A seamless whole😊❣

Thank you for this, so needed. Still get lost in thought after years post awakening.

So helpful! It answered my question about how to balance questioning beliefs, which goes into thought, with the necessity to disbelieve thoughts. I was getting stuck in that wash cycle!

Hi angelo. Wouldnt it be better to say " don't believe thoughts" rather than " don't believe your thoughts". As the first sentence presumes that thoughts are 'yours', but a huge part of awakening is that thoughts aren't yours, they arise on their own. When they are seen to all ariseon their own, the belief in them can automatically loosen. Rather than trying not to believe them.

Or in Nisargadatta's words: Your Sadhana is To Be But as you say, in the end they all link up.

Your first pointing in itself is a blessing to hear if the heart is ready to receive 💙 At the end, question even the questionner, the true intent behind his question, and as you would most probably say,.. until neither the questionner nor his questioning remains.

How am I aware of a thought? In what way is a thought perceived? How can I determine if I’ve had one? I am not aware of how it appears, but it seems to arise within awareness. Which sense perceives a thought? Where is the thought? It presents as a voice without volume and a visual without an image; is it entirely unreal?

I really like the idea of focusing on not believing your thoughts, I’ve heard that elsewhere of course, but need to take it to heart

Thank you! Super helpful… this morning I sat for an hour and had a stance of “thoughts were just chemical processes in my brain” and kept returning to present moment.. yet shorter/less “thoughts” would be just don’t believe them…which is also a thought tho…? Round I go 😂..

Great video, thanks for making it.

My wife says I have a really short pointer and like you I said “don’t believe your thoughts.” Then I realised she was talking about my dog. My pointer is short because she’s still a puppy.

* notice that consciousness/awareness is prior to thought * investigate your self

Perfect example here of no such thing as a stupid question. Thanks to you and thanks to the questioner for inspiring the video.

I had a major glimpse after the first approach. I have it many times, when I realize all my struggles of the past week, the great deep suffering, is all just thoughts. And when I realize its not me, I laugh uncontrollably. This type of awakening usually is not a permanent shift, but I feel like I am inching closer. I think its paradoxical in that I know all my problems in life are not real and yet I also do need to become the person who can solve them in order to relax into true presence. Sometimes I feel guilty letting go because it is as if I am also ignoring problems in my life, yet in order for me to be the one who can solve these problems I need to be able to let go otherwise I am constantly seeking and unable to make progress in my external life. All of life seems to be a paradox.

Well said good sir🙏

When you trying to expound dharma but your phone is about to die 🤣

So Helpful ❤ THANK YOU

“Don’t believe any of your thoughts” is absolutely profound, both from an awakening standpoint and from a practical standpoint. Nervous about an upcoming interaction? Don’t believe the thoughts surrounding it. Dependent on a particular outcome? Don’t believe thoughts telling you you need a thing. Incredibly freeing. Even the seemingly positive thoughts can cause problems (“I’m a good person”, “I can do this”) - buying into them is a distortion / contraction of the actuality of what is actually occurring. (On the other hand, experiencing them nonjudgmentally without buying into them is experiencing their actuality). Thoughts seem to be fed on belief in them too. Consider someone on a street corner trying to tell you the world is ending or what have you. If you make it perfectly clear that you simply don’t believe them, whatever they say… they’ll give up, and look for someone else, and that interaction will dissipate quickly. Anyways, just wanted to comment that I’ve seen huge benefit from putting that first pointer into practice. Thanks 🙏

What beliefs am i holding onto right now?

Great stuff. 2a Trust the process.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

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So helpful, thank you, Angelo!! I want to watch again and again, for understanding; is this the intellect trying to do the opposite of this teaching you shared?

What is it when you are no longer in your head, and thoughts have pretty much stopped?

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Number one is essentially Ramana's enquire with every thought ...

I have heard thought described as another sense, like hearing or seeing. Can you talk about how this impacts the "practice" of not believing the mind?

Oh boi "don't believe a single thought" is a great beginning for a great great confusion 😄

But if I didn't believe a thought. I wouldn't have thought it.

#2 is a little difficult to understand. Toward what mystery?

I keep falling in and out of non-dual practice and it's frustrating. Sometimes I'm completely in line with this and I meditate and do self inquiry and get good glimpses here and there. But other times I don't do any of that and I just day dream constantly, and I enjoy it very much. I'm almost addicted to creative thinking. But this all seems contrary to what is being said about letting go of thoughts and just be present with what is. I feel a bit confused...

Any tips for unearthing those unconscious beliefs we may be operating under?

Hey Angelo I bought your book and I’ve been doing self inquiry and disidentifying from thoughts consistently for about a week now and I’m starting to get this borderline overwhelming anxiety. Are you sure this is supposed to happen? It feels like I’m going to perish.

Number 1 and number 4 take me into the world of the real.

This is gold thahnks.

This is good for meditation and going to sleep. We as humans need to have thoughts that we believe in. We need to plan things out. We don't want to get into accidents. I couldn't do this most of my day.

Here's another three words: Just let go. Let go absolutely. Simple, but not necessarily easy.

You forgot to mention where you got that shirt

Is focus also an illusion? When something is (sensually) "in focus", is that just a kind of theatre in that sense field to give the illusion of a focus (by providing a "blur" to everything else)?

Any chance you can share the source of the bg music? 🙂

I have been practising not to believe thoughts but not very diligently. But my doubt is that some enlightened teachers say that it has nothing to do with thoughts in fact realisation is an energetic shift. I was wondering whether there was any connection between not believing thoughts leading to opening of this contracted energy. I wanted your take on this

So, if I clearly see that there is no space, that it is just interpretation, and that there is no separation between objects, and no separation between perceptions and me, and thoughts and objects and me - this is it? And everything just appears to be? There is no movement, it appears to be moving?

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Consciousness is an experience at zero distance, with no abiding reality!🤣🤣😂😂😛😍😇🤬😈💥

What does let it overtake you mean 🤔

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So... do I stop believing thoughts, or IN thoughts? Many thoughts seem to require thinking to stop believing them... I mean, how do I stop believing something like "I am a man, men are supposed to do this or that", when men are actually supposed to do that? Yes, it's a social construct, and I myself may not believe that's true, but still...very confusing

What does it mean to believe something? Like literally literally, what is it?

Don't believe your thoughts. This leads to the distractions and manipulation that so many fall victim to. Instead, observe your own thought patterns and behaviors and the behaviors of society and try to find a single catalyst that explains all of it. There is only one cause, and when you find it, your purpose and awakening are delivered to you. Don't attach negative behaviors to people, attach them to the environment. Reality and that environment are perfect. Our inability to comprehend that perfection is nothing more than a bit of missing context that's revealed when we find the source catalyst. Find the source and you see the perfection. This reality was made for you and me, and we are one of the same. Forgiveness is the first step. Forgiveness then evolves into unconditional love. If you want to find your awakening, take care of yourself. Get healthy physically and mentally. Physical health is simple but not easy. It requires good nutrition and exercise. Mental health comes from serving others, and you serve others best when you're physically healthy. Actions that don't serve your health or others will not serve you. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." Logic is what enables you to understand the way your own actions effect yourself through others. Wisdom is what enables you to use that understanding to help yourself by helping others. A leader doesn't give a man a fish, a leader teaches a man to fish. We all have the same purpose: to serve each other. We exist to find our unique expression of that purpose. All I can do is point you in the right direction. Only you can find your unique expression.

I feel attacked! I've been having dzogchen vs zen thoughts all day.

Why should it be simple?

For me ita like yes ok they are thoughts. But collective thoughts, that have some relativ3 truth to the are hard to dismiss as thoughts. Like for me, im aging, and aging women arent really that high of value to men or society. I know i make it important to be liked by men. But. Hey, im still not awakened and i really would love to share my life with a man. So. This is where the dilemma is. 😂

#1 where’s the awakening path end. Death ???

not to believe anything and yet health of body comes up while eating or exercising etc is “ good for the body” etc so let that go too?? Resistance noticed in letting go of this “ concern for survival??”

Angelo, consider first thing about thoughts, its valid ONLY when I desperately want to wake up and nothing else in the world? What I mean, for example, if I sit quietly and some thought arise "I need to plan my project, because if not, I will lose money" or "I need to prepare some gift for my daughter" or "I was so rude with my friend today, how I can be more aware with her" or "maybe I just bypassing world and responsibility with this just_sitting stuff" or whateva.... So, all this types of thoughts just ignore and continue to observe? Or there is time for life plannin and also time for deeds and world and we really can mix it with lay life? Thank you

It doesn't get clearer 🤌