What Happens AFTER Awakening? | Awakening, Explained Ep. 5 (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

Wanna know how deep the awakening rabbit hole goes? Are you SURE? 🤯 This is episode 5 in our series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book "Awake: It's Your Turn." Get Angelo's book and his awesome meditation app here: https://books.simplyalwaysawake.com/ Full transcript, links, audio podcast, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-5 Full interview series on Awakening: https://zdoggmd.locals.com/content/vi... Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Key Topics: 0:00 Intro: What happens AFTER awakening? 2:37 The honeymoon period after the awakening “event” and the mass of conditioned beliefs and repressed emotions 6:38 How and why we need to address post-awakening fixations and why conceptual thinking fails us 9:08 Surrender vs. Intention in deepening realization, and avoiding fixation on one or the other 11:50 The fixation of dualism dissolving to non-dualism: the experience of space & distance 18:23 The fixation of identity and “self” and non-dual realization, and the paradox of dualistic language 23:31 If there are no un-enlightened people, why do we talk about ending suffering, “Zen Stink” 26:01 The fixation of “agency” and the experience of “No Self Apart” 31:40 The mundane coming alive 34:12 The fixation of the tendency of mind to “frame” reality