Who Are You?
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"Who Let the Dogs Out" is a powerful song for inquiry...
Brilliant 🤩
I immediately hear "Who Are You?", the song by the band The Who. Makes this question unworkable for me so far.
@@joep2796 LOL... I just wrote the same thing before seeing your comment. Can't unhear it... First time I heard The Who I was on LSD, I had awakenings of sorts but sadly it only lasted a short while. 🙏💞
fun fact nobody knows where that song originally comes from and it has many verisons
I immediately thought about the song by Black Sabbath ('Who are You')
There is a just a gap and a curiosity. 🙂
That there is exploration/inverstigation that doesn't involve the mind is maybe the biggest gift i ever got
I just had the realization when I looking around I don’t just have to constantly be in memories like I don’t need to react mentally to my environment it’s great 😊
I like how Paul Hedderman talks about the two Yous. The you that’s being searched for and the one that’s doing the searching. One exposes the other, while paradoxically neither exists.
I’m the sensation of a scrunched face.
as Cohen said, There is a gap in everything, that's how the Light gets in.
It's from the chorus of The Anthem and it actually says., "...there's a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in."
But obviously close enough because a crack does create a gap.
I only experienced this once. I was sitting on a bench trying to do this exercise and eventually I decided to "zone out" like I used to do in maths class. I noticed how my consciousness was awake with no effort. No pushing. Just floating. It was marvelous.
Unfortunately this lasted some 5 minutes before the gears started turning again. And I've lost it since!
You have the greatest high-fidelity true-to-life 'surround-sound' system ever created, it makes Dolby-Atmos sound like complete poo. Listen to every sound around you in detail as it occurs. You'll gradually hear what you've never noticed before. Do it deliberately until it's automatic and just a pleasure. This will progressively grow your sensitivity to a great depth, and appreciation of the endless beauty of the completely ordinary. We're desensitized, purely due to a lack of attention. When you pay full attention it is an obsession, but in a very healthy constructive way. When we are not desensitized thoughts struggle to stick around, or to seem the least bit interesting. It goes quiet much more easily and almost indefinitely. Even if it intrudes, who cares? Keep listening, watching, take in what is here, and thoughts just fade out and will stop, because the natural beauty is far more compelling. At some point you'll hear the textures within sounds, and these will go right through your whole body, quite viscerally, to the point that when the almost unnoticeable fridge engine kicks-on, in another room, you'll feel it, as much as hear it. You may struggle to not freak out from it overloading you at first, but listen and notice this is how you really work, as a human. You are supposed to be able to do this. It is not natural or heathy to lose your sensitivity, nor to not even know you can have it. It's ok to identify what a sound is, that's perfectly normal, but you will eventually stop doing that too and just accept the beauty. It will change your perception.
Lovely comment, very relatable!
*Worth considering:* are you comparing a "peak" experience - a memory (thought) of a specific event, a sensation, an idea about what's "needed", or a specific state - to what your experience NOW "should be" or isn't?
Are you looking for that particular experience again since you've "lost" it? Trying to get those some 5 minutes of 0% effort, 100% floating again?
What if that's simply not here right now besides as just another thought, another desirable fantasy? The push and pull to "not push and pull anymore"...
What if YOU still are here regardless, no matter how much pushing there is or how experience changes?
And maybe rather than the 5 minutes - there's only a few microseconds of 30% effort,70% floating? What if those seconds can open up to more once THIS experience is seen for what it is, once it's welcomed, not dismissed for being "lesser" than the remarkable experience that's being sought after through thoughts?
Writing this for my own sake too, Comparison can be very tricky. Thankfully we're always right here, so we always have the chance to notice it, then notice what's underneath / beyond it.
That initial shift, is it something that happens only once and can't be unseen. Having had a shift many years ago, without any knowledge of such things, I have a hard time finding where I sit in this "process".
I like the question: "Who am I, at zero distance" (and then going there to look).
The sense of you/me has never changed since I was born....the cultural conditioning, parents, muddies the ability to be just that who you are.....For me being in the gap with fetters 4 and 5 can be challenging with all the purging of stagnant energy of resistance and then I settle down into the vastness of what I am....at least for a while.
Is it just me or are you really on a roll atm
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I don't even know if who is the right word. I'm wondering WHAT I am. What is this sense of I exactly? I'm stumped.
It feels more like a what to me, too ❤
yes, who, what, and where are all good; "where" is especially good with "what" because they go right at the assumption; notice that you aren't a perceived sensation and no sensation perceives other sensations
there's so much available right here. the illusion of meaning is only possible when it all gets collapsed into a few discrete parts. Thank you, Angelo.
So much yet so much less than you think
I AM THE SENATE
When asking who are you, there are no thoughts. But there is a contraction in my body. It’s as if that contraction prevents thoughts from appearing, I’m guessing like a freeze response? So it’s deceiving because there are literally no thoughts that come up, so I can’t tell if it is this freeze response, or an actual gap.
When I put my attention on the contracted body part, it moves to a different part of my body. After five minutes of chasing it around, I got so anxious that it felt like I couldn’t breath unless I controlled my breath. Like I couldn’t let my body breath on its own.
This is wonderful, very vivid description of it. And it may be uncomfortable to experience, but it sounds like a fantastic place to inquire from!
If you don't mind me asking, since I've felt similar things before - What do you feel in the rest of the body, if you let the contraction be after the question, but focus on other areas without chasing it?
And during the chase, what do you feel is the "relationship" with that contraction?
For example, Is it like a "police chase", going after a criminal or adversary? A "play chase", full of lightheartedness and fun? Or is it chasing after a "guide", curiously showing you around and leading you somewhere unexpected?
How would you describe the feel of it, the view of it? Is that view sticky, rigid, or flexible and something you can play with too?
I get the feeling that we often ignore the "view" we add to the experience, when it can affect it VERY strongly in these subtle places. How was the view even formed, what conclusions or beliefs lead to it? Can the view change? And how does that change the experience, or what DOESN'T change when the view does? What's unchanging?
Would love to hear more!
I am... .
Thank you, good video.
Thank you, sir. Love ya so much! It’s almost like a game, isn’t it? There’s much fun to be had. I experience the gap, but I’m one who has that endless wall of thought, which revs up after a bit. It’s like an internal commentary on all that’s happening. I notice it, and find it amusing. Back to the gap! 😂
For a few days, I've been feeling more and more what I really am, beyond thoughts, simply consciousness being conscious of every experience, it's like I am purely and simply here to experience this life, but I am not from here. 😦 and I'll always be ok because I always am, I feel untouched by anything that ever happened to this body-mind form.
I’m this scrunched face that’s happening now
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"I'm using the words to point back to your immediate experience which is more real than those words."
More real than ANY words, any descriptions conjured by the mind to try and force experience into a well-defined box.
Thank you Angelo!
Yep been working with reactivity especially pausing and feeling into the senses. Waiting... Watching.
Hey, question: what about feelings? I've been taught to carry an elevated emotion such as love through out my life...
I can still notice the mind's activity comes and goes while I'm experiencing "carrying" this emotion, but I think it is counter-productive towards total mind freedom. But at the same time, if I'm just always empty, people are literally repelled from me.
What do you think?
This video is like non-duality edging
Thank you!!!
no way to explain❣️☺️
Who is this handsome man we call Angelo really? Can we ever truly know the essence of who he is?
isn’t essence basis of all?Where is your essence….isn‘t it same?Can‘t be named,but ……IS ❣️
…..but don't believe this thought😁…..is not believing….is…….❣️
@@birgit8996 Indeed 😀, essence IS the basis of all. My essence is the same as yours-beyond names and forms, yet ever-present and undeniable…… ❣️
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………❣️
@@birgit8996😊
Does Consciousness require Ownership? None is found.
Nor a Dream Character stating, “I AM.” But One saying, “I AM NOT.”
Consciousness displaying the Universe, without a verifiable Being.
JUST THIS happening spontaneously to No One. Allow the Mind to accept JUST THIS without changing, resisting, or labeling.
Only Consciousness remains Constant. Forms, Shapes, Colors, Thoughts, Sounds are all just modifications in Consciousness.
This and the one titled What is your primary experience? Are two of the most simply potent pointers given. Thank you for all your wonderful content.
I just started a greatest hits playlist for those videos people tell me they get a lot of benefit out of, and put those in
@@SimplyAlwaysAwakeIf you’re doing that I’d recommend ‘What is the Simplest Approach to Awakening?’ for it, very potent direction not to believe thoughts
I'm old enough that whenever I hear, Who Are You?, that song 'Who Are You' by the band The Who automatically begins playing in my head... Lol.
And for the longest time I've had no idea what you and others have meant by 'the gap'... I believe I heard you say in this video it's the space between thoughts. Is this correct?
Thank you for your exceptional devotion to awakening. 🙏💞🕊️
Who, who, who the fuck are you?? (The album version ;)
Simply alway appreciative, thanks.
I have listened to this one 5 times now. This direct pointing, especially the second half of the video for folks (like me) who dont see a "gap" has been really valuable. After sitting with the "find the you that does not change with thought" , I see why I did not (and still dont ) see a "gap" , its because I have formed a concept on what a "gap" is and I am seeking it. Just dropping that notion of having to find a gap as a "success" criteria (which you also called out) has helped a lot. Yes you are right that its ok to not see the gap and something in the way this message was delivered in this video makes me not feel frustrated that I dont see the gap , yet there is a mystery to it. I dont have words to describe anymore. Just wanted to share what helped and wanted to say thanks!
Priceless 👌
I love this sort of exploration. The gap was so obvious and although I was aware of ‘thoughts’, I didn’t actually have a thought regarding who/what I essentially am. Which is the pure presence/the gap itself!
Thanks Angelo 🙏
Ahhhhhh so helpful❤❤❤❤
This morning it hit me in meditation: im nothing more than a bunch of tensions and words. Now, keep on investigating. (Just to see if Angelo is lying in his videos 😂❤)
What's the nature of presence?
Presence is noticable, though subtle. It's not something dramatic; it's not gonna hit you over the head like a 2 x 4 with some kind weird sensation or anything. In my current experience, Presence is subtle though noticable when thoughts and emotions aren't too stirred up. Presence is like an energetically neutral sense of well being. It never changes; it's always the same, always there. It is always calm and peaceful. Presence is also called consciousness. Consciousness is Being; Beingness, existence, the "I Am". If you can notice Presence, just notice it. Don't try to do anything with it. You can't, anyway, so just notice it, observe it. It's actually what 'we' are (though there is no 'we').
@@morbb5691 i appreciate your answer but i asked what is the nature of it? I can rest in presence, I've been doing it for quite some time now but he implies there is something beyond that. That's what I don't understand.
I remember a moment right now where I asked "Who am I?" and my mind said "You are nothing without me". And I thought: "Well, that can't be right!" 😂
Thank you! 🙏 💕
Welcome!
Who am i ? ..........
If i'm experiencing the gap,
then that's enough.
....Nice one
“I know that world. I used to live in it.”
The Who is not a Who.
Timing the gap? It’s always here and it’s not within time. ⚫️
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This really struck me hard because the first moment you said who are you? I sat there and there was nothing. I had no answer. I had no thought and it was really weird. I just sat there in nothingness. How interesting. This is the first time I’ve ever been able to really remove thought.
Repeating the question didn't change anything. No gap, no response, no idea. Finishes off morning cup of tea, this popped up on google, scalp is tingling mildly. Cogitates drawing blanks, get instant mental image of black and blank computer screen. Noisemaker wants to review the question. Sips last of tea. Slowly focuses on OP's words again, rewinds video ... rewinds again. Listens some more ... nope. The question may be broken. Second cup of tea? Yep! Makes tea, types this.
Memory vaguely remembers cogitating this decades ago when there was an ardent disturbing enquiry into 'weighty' matters, due to my utter desperation to do more than believe stuff, or accept standard baseline societal delusions of prescribed 'knowledge' as inevitable. I demanded comprehension and insight. Had a genuinely desperate mental desire to be 'clear'. The relative 'relevance' then, makes no sense now, as I have absolutely no idea who I am. If one says I'm God, incarnated as a human, people will look at you funny (may nail you to a cross). The 'truth' comes with a very low social permissiveness. There's no remaining interest in internal or external 'answers' about, "who are you", which answers can only be wrong, whatever the source. There's no way to know, and no one else can ever know, but they will. I'll find out when I 'die' possibly, but not knowing is fine. Believing random myths about it is not.
I remember reading (back then) that J Krishnamurti (who seemed to know a thing or two more than I did), once said his mum told him he had the mind of a butcher, i.e. nothing was safe or sacred, he slaughtered every thought and broke its mystique. "Who are you?" A butcher of thoughts seems a satisfactory temporal 'answer'. Implying we are not our dearest-held pet thoughts ... hey, you asked.
i relate to butcher of thoughts
I know a gap. I know myself as the no gap. I can recognize myself. But until you said that was the realization the first main shift. It didn’t seem like to much. And I got caught up in the next thought. How to stay there. Eventually do we stay there forever?
Thank you. I feel a gap. I have been previously drawn to your explanation of the Mu koan. Am I correct in sensing that the place I find myself when pondering your question "who are you" is where the Mu koan points?
Yes, correct
What is with the “Hoist the Colour” by Miltilda in the Mind Identification Playlist!?!??! I was deep in the list and all the sudden, wait, wtf??? 😂😂😂😂
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@@SimplyAlwaysAwake so good man. Love your humor. Caused a reset in my empty focus 🧘♂️
The second time, when you mentioned a gap, I kind of 'forced' the gap intentionally - I wonder if that is a common thing and what it shows (a habit of force stopping thought when meditating?)
I have lots of disassociation. What could help against that? Anxiety which distances me from experience.
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I don't notice much of a gap, but I don't really notice an answer either. My attention doesn't go anywhere in particular. The question doesn't really land anywhere. Does it even make sense? What is "who"? What is "I"? There's just this experience. There is the thought/feeling of being a me that is the thinker/senser/controller, but I don't find anything if I look for it. There doesn't seem to be anything to find, no special direction I could possibly look. Yet it continues the way it always has, with no conclusive finding, maybe just more skepticism.
There’s more of a gap there than you realize. Good inquiry!
There’s a gap!
Some other interesting question is: where are you?
Is this the same as hua t’ou practice?
Lol and an I don't know lol
But what if there is no gap but there are gaps in the no-pag?
Ah! Same thing! How boring 😂