What is Your Primary Experience? 

I adore how Ken McLeod translates Dukkha not as Suffering, but as struggle. It's the push and/or pull on or against what already is.

I appreciate you so much, AD. Still circling the drain in a burning dumpster and no longer certain seeking will ever end, but in any case, you’ve been an amazing presence for me and an incredibly clear herald. So articulate and logical and your rhetoric is alive with examples that bring it all home. I’ve been dry pounding the enlightenment corpse for 25 years now with no fruition and I just wish I would stop already. Please, can I stop now? I’m tired of being in this waiting for life to start mode. I’ve read a shit ton, modern and ancient, watched all the vids, followed lots of teachers. Again, you are the absolute clearest and most eloquent. I had my first non-dual visual experience thanks to you. Six weeks later there came a week of unknowingness I’d never experienced before and just like that, I was back to positions and perspectives. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of mental distraction being generated now so I don’t tune in too deeply to the swimmingly void kaleidoscope of unknowable appearance that blots me off the map whenever I notice it. I don’t know. I don’t know anything. After 65 years of collecting information like a maniac, I’m seeing that the idea of “knowledge” is pretty effing thin. What now, who knows? Hopefully soon, who cares.

The elephant is the main character here

there is only what is and what isn't :D love it - tihs is around 17 min mark it takes a lot of energy to convince ourselves what what isn't is :D

I just listened to this again. I don't think I was fully tuned in the first time. This video is amazing. Everything is here. Everything. Like A.D. says in the beginning, 90% of this is just staying with the primary experience. And that's exactly what I've been avoiding in so many ways. But for the last few hours, there's just this. Thank you.

Angelo, that is some of the most potent and direct pointers and feels so true if you grok it and not try to understand it! So glad I came across your channel back when I did.

Great talk -about the primary experience. Sooo important!!! Most important !!! Worth hearing it again and again!!! Till it clicks !!! Dots ARE connecting more and more now for me 😮 Thank you Angelo

Never an experience of Being outside of Consciousness looking inside ; nor inside of Consciousness looking outside. Only Experience AS Consciousness of JUST THIS.

Superb talk - really helped me deepen

Thanks so much Angelo! You talked about the primary experience so clearly here but I still didn’t get it until the last day of retreat 😆 I will be on it until July retreat for sure! 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

Nitty gritty 😊 Thank you Angelo 🙏🏻

Thank you, Angelo. Very insightful. And something to 'think' about on this Sunday ;)

This was incredible. Somehow I felt like everything about this made sense... To no one. Nothing spectacular. Just happening.

Ah, the purple flower!

Hey Angelo, thanks for all the videos - absolutely love to watch them and they’re always so clear, grounded, and heartfelt!! I’m really interested in this topic and have watched / consumed heaps of the non-dual gang expounding both sides of the consciousness coin, including Tony Parsons, Rupert Spira, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Ken Wilbur, Ramana, you name it. I was also really curious about the science and philosophy of consciousness before learning about non-duality. Anyhow, I’m wondering if you’d indulge me in your opinions on a couple of questions. Firstly, I guess the non-consciousness message I hear in some videos can seem really confronting at first - and having had various ‘awakened’ experiences (seeing thoughts seperate from self, unbound conscious awareness, samadhi states, non-dual visual perceptions of objects, etc.) - I can see how a recognition of no-self or consciousness could be quite readily available / noticeable. I suppose then a couple of questions arise, such as does the illusion of consciousness provide any benefit to a human being, what is it like to not be conscious (is it like nothing?!), is this something worth pursuing, are experiences experienced in any way at all (albeit not combined into a single ‘stream of consciousness’ - i.e. perhaps the body parts feel sensations but they are not combined into a holistic global view)? I hear analogous ideas often used like the cup appearing as as a cup, or the chair is chairing, or it is seen, or it can be noticed, and it is hard to separate the concept of awareness out of these accounts of reality. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!! ☺️ Oh, also I’m sure the use of words like I, or recognition are grammatically incorrect for the circumstance, so please look past those issues unless they do have significance in the answer. Again, love the great content!!

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maybe I just don't get it, but the idea of there being a part of experience that is more primary and fundamental than others feels a lot like division of experience or a duality.

I have listened twice and cannot grok this. Is there something wrong with me? Is listening useful even if I can't understand? I still very much appreciate your efforts to help us awaken. ❤

Whats the fetter?

What small group was this?

What is Love?