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Quick takeaways
- Suffering is needless; everyone can attain boundless clarity and intimacy with phenomena.
- Liberation involves disidentifying from thoughts and self, progressing towards profound enlightenment.
- Guided meditation promotes an unguarded, spontaneous experience, transcending duality to embrace mysterious consciousness.
Deep dives
Awakening Path: From Suffering to Meditation
Angelo Delulo, a physician, shared his awakening journey, starting with a childhood marked by intense suffering and a craving for deeper meaning. Discovering transcendental meditation led to significant experiences, indicating a pre-taste of awakening. The process intensified due to emotional repression and anxiety, leading to a transformative shift at 24, unfolding into a portal of profound change.
Confronting Fixations for Inner Growth
Angelo discussed dissolving fixations by questioning one's expectations in relationships and identifying fears. By understanding personal desires and integrating discomfort, individuals may experience newfound clarity and relinquish control over external validations. The process entails embracing discomfort and addressing reactivity, allowing for a shift towards authentic engagement.
Exploring Consciousness and Liberation
Addressing the nuances of awakening versus liberation, Angelo elucidated the initial shift in identity as awakening, followed by a profound realization of no self or emptiness in liberation. He emphasized the process of disidentifying from thoughts and the self as critical in progressing towards profound enlightenment. The discussion extended to considering technological advancements in altering consciousness and the impacts of such explorations on the quest for awakening.
Balancing Intention and Surrender in the Awakening Process
Realization involves a natural cycle of expansion and contraction, where emotional and shadow work play vital roles after moments of growth. Trusting this process and embracing both positive and challenging aspects leads to profound realization. Different modalities, such as psychedelics or targeted brain stimulation, can offer initial glimpses beyond cognitive limitations, igniting the journey towards awakening.
Guided No-Technique Meditation for Cultivating Awareness
The guided meditation encourages observing bodily sensations, sounds, and thoughts without judgment or control. Seeking a balance between attention and surrender, the practice elicits an unguarded, spontaneous experience allowing conscious substance to flow freely. By letting go of labels and boundaries, the meditation leads to an indefinable, all-encompassing awareness, transcending duality and embracing the mysterious nature of consciousness.
In this episode we talk to Angelo DiLullo about awakening, liberation from suffering, and his book, Awake: It’s Your Turn.
• Includes a guided meditation using sound, sensations, and thought to help us to know the undefined, the mysterious, the ungraspable, and the undeniable, just as it is.
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ABOUT ANGELO DILULLO:
At the age of 24, after years of intense internal suffering and an intuition that something about the way we interact with our thoughts causes a lot of unnecessary suffering, Angelo had a fundamental shift in the way he experiences reality. This was a pervasive transformation and was life-altering at every level. It suddenly became clear that thoughts, and the way they "paint" our experience of ourselves, time, and space, are essentially unreal, something like ghosts. What replaced this world of thought, struggle, and suffering, was boundless clarity and intimacy with all immediate textures of phenomena. It became clear that this is simply the natural state of things and that it is true for everyone, even if there is some distortion in experience caused by thoughts.
It became exquisitely clear that suffering is unnecessary among humans and that any human being who has a genuine yearning to wake up to their true nature has the capacity to wake up to this boundless (non-separation) living truth. This led to the writing of the book, "Awake: It's Your Turn." The book is a combination of practical advice to help anyone who is on this pathless path, practice pointers and inquiry tips, and direct pointing (transmission) through language.
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