Awakening | Time, Thought, and Equanimity (Part 3)

What does it feel like to be fully present? Is time real or is it illusory? Have you ever been out of the now? How does peace relate to timeless presence? How does one investigate in direct experience, the illusory nature of time? In the first of three videos in this series we delve into the difference between being present as a practice, and realizing that there is literally no way to experience anything other than eternity.

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[moreinnerpeace]

Mind blown! I can feel so many shifts as I watch your videos and practice. I am actually recognizing the mechanism for suffering and a different kind of equanimity. This really feels like the beginning of the end of suffering. Recognizing the thoughts for what they are and how we are conditioned to give thoughts a special kind of deference. How we are automatically pulled into their orbit, accepting them blindly, unconsciously as true. But even though I still get pulled in (though not as much), I recognize it for what it is. The false self is created by believing thought and its amazing to taste what it is like to not have the burdens of a self or time.

[LukeBayler]

As this process unfolds more and more these videos are starting to "make more sense". Thank you!

[Mevlinous]

This seems to tie back to the ability to completely relax, let go and allow life to unfold and happen. To trust that the body knows how to react to any situation. A kind of wu wei, or action from non action.

I had this realisation today that, although this presence is underlying all experience, there is some monitoring of expectation, which is still a subtle form of control.

Today I have been relaxing completely, not physically, actually I have been working all morning, but I have stopped, and this seemed to remove the sense of urgency which has been like a monkey on my back. A kind of pressure or energy from behind.

I said enough, and just let life happen. I had some subtle active monitoring going on in, which i am trying to release, or rather just stand back and let it happen. Monitoring is happening, but I am not monitoring the body, the face, the head.

As I work, work is happening, I am not working.

[TaniaKozak-mn]

Time is what eternity looks like through the finite mind.

[dennisbeauchamp]

Thanks for consistantly pointing out the crux of the matter.

[amyannes]

Amazing to experience these videos, feeling so light and happy and evoking so much love. 🥰

[anncairns]

Angelo, this is the soul life teaching 😲🌞🫂

[sadokdanger]

Your pointings are so stong and very on point. Thank you :)

[eric-humanappliance]

A challenge for me is to get better at avoiding ego contraction in day to day life, whether the situation is with family/parenting, pressure at work, or engaging a societal structure. I love sitting in stillness, self inquiring, experiencing the senses. But when the vacuum-pull of ego contraction starts to set in, even though I notice it happening in real time, I can't pull out of it effectively. It's like an undertow.

[Truthfull]

Great videos Angelo, but can you do one on sensations. Thoughts desolve when looked at and I’m left with sensation in the face. Muscles contract and I notice this. Need more guidance with sensations. They feel like they make up the sense of I in the face. You have no playlist on sensations. Thanks 🙏🏼

[KK-qdro]

I find myself wondering if you ever get to work on time lol. Then I let that go and allow your words to sink into me. Right at this moment I don't remember what you said. Realization moment and remember are time words . ; o )

[seanmclaren]

This "awakening" wasn't expected or sought. It just happened. But the damaged ego is scurrying around inside that space like a cornered rat in a cage. One has lived decades in a cortisol-addicted fight or flight condition and there is such a seemingly profound well of grief from having lived in that separated state. This creates a Hell realm. Life would have been so different with realization in youth. One asks, "Why didn't I get one single pointer when I was a teenager before so much damage was done? Why didn't I get a copy of an Alan Watts book, or a Krishnamurti book, or one single person to point in the right direction?". This story is a dense structure that ego uses to remain alive. It literally would rather kill the body to remain alive, than surrender. Will it ever give up?

[markzupsic]

When you said time is a complete illusion there is no way to believe in the past I looked in my fridge and yesterday I had two sticks of butter and today I only have one so that proves that there was a past😂😂😂😂😂

[James-mkjp]

It feels like the conceptual structures are like an invisible skeleton dressed up in the clothing of the senses.

[ermiyaswoldearegay]

What ever this is it's nonconeptual higher order is.