641. 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.

Book: Awake: It's Your Turn

Simply Always Awake YouTube channel

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Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded April 2, 2022.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.



YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction and Background
00:05:38 - The Shift in Perception: From Suffering to Enlightenment
00:10:20 - Becoming Home
00:14:56 - Suffering and Awakening
00:19:21 - The Paradox of Authenticity
00:23:32 - Finding the Gap in Thoughts
00:28:07 - The Structure of the Mind and Perception
00:32:54 - The Unbound Consciousness
00:37:27 - The Natural State of Mind
00:41:59 - Embracing Pain and Sensory Input
00:46:51 - Overwhelming Sensory Experience
00:51:43 - The Nature of Experience
00:56:39 - The Dance of Nature and the Nature of "Ocean-ness"
01:01:06 - The non-dualistic nature of perception
01:05:29 - The Subtlety of the Spiritual Journey
01:10:39 - Shifting Gears, Changing Expectations and Enjoying the Moment
01:15:30 - The Meaning of Awakening
01:19:44 - Attuning to Your Instincts and Embracing Your Awakening
01:24:05 - Investigating the Relational Self
01:29:08 - Escaping Suffering and Dissolving into Reality
01:33:47 - Dissolving Boundaries of Perception
01:38:00 - The Importance of Focus while Driving
01:42:12 - Love for All Beings
01:47:04 - The Paradox of Enlightenment
01:51:51 - Trusting Yourself and the Unborn
01:56:26 - The Length of the Book
02:00:41 - Uncovering and holding discomfort in the body
02:05:12 - Going into the Contracted Area and Feeling Helplessness
02:09:47 - Investigating God, Death, and Reincarnation
02:14:12 - Energetic Realizations and Past Lives
02:18:34 - Wrapping Up the Conversation