Angelo Dilullo is an American medical doctor, an anaesthesiologist by profession, who began teaching nondual recognition in earnest in the late 2010s after his own awakening. His teaching grew out of years of personal practice across Zen, Advaita, and the Western contemplative current associated with Adyashanti, and his framing carries a clinician’s bias toward what is concretely true and verifiable in one’s own immediate experience.
His central work is the 2021 book Awake — It’s Your Turn, written for what he calls the closet seekers: the person who suspects awakening is possible, has read enough of the literature to know there are stages, and wants an unromantic field guide to the actual territory. The book moves from the recognition of awareness, through the dropping of the apparent self-centre, through the longer process of integration that the simpler nondual presentations sometimes skip, and into the lived shape of life on the other side. He is unusually willing to name the difficult and disorienting phases that follow a first awakening, and to give practical guidance for what to do in them.
Alongside the book he runs the Simply Always Awake YouTube channel, which has become a significant point of orientation for an English-speaking online seeking community. The videos range from short pointing instructions to multi-hour conversations with other contemporary teachers.
Where to start
- Awake — It’s Your Turn — his central book; the most thorough description of the path from initial recognition through long integration.
- Simply Always Awake (YouTube channel) — long-form videos on awakening, integration, and the practical work of seeing through the self-sense.
- The official site — book, schedule, and contact details.
