Psychedelics Will NOT Awaken You! (RE: Actualized.org)

But they're great tools :D
Filmed And Edited By / being_frank_yang . Timestamp for the ADHD
0:00 Timestamps
0:47 - DJing the whole universe
2:20 - Why Enlightenment Is Binary (with gradual shifts)
3:11 - Orgasm and Awakening
5:47 - Enlightenment is not Mindfulness
10:52 - Psychedelics doesn't rewire the brain
11:25 - Why You Can't Glimpse Enlightenment
12:18 - What Psychedelics Are Good For
12:55 - Eckhart Tolle's LSD Trip
15:45 - BBQ
16:40 - Psychedelics and Cessations/Nibanna
I also talk about how awakening is in many sense binary, look no further than the mechanism of a cessation/Fruition/Nibbana (many thinks it's the prerequisite to Stream Entry, 1st level of awakening which I go into more details in the end of the video), when the lights of consciousness completely switches off. You can't get any more on/off than that ! Not to mention the "final shift" is qualitative different than all the other previous quantum and permanent shifts. Any psychedelics you take pre formal Awakening is still within the dimension of pre-awakening, thus not a true glimpse of The Thing.
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Here are some book recommendations that really helped me out on the Path:
Master The Core Teachings Of The Buddha by Daniel Ingram
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Contemplative Fitness by Kenneth Folk (the quote at the end about Awareness is by Kenneth Folk)
eudoxos.github.io/cfitness/ht...
Michael Taft (great podcast and guided meditation)
deconstructingyourself.com/mi...
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The Mind Illuminated
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Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young
www.amazon.com/Science-Enligh...
Sam Harris's Waking Up (Send me a DM to receive a free trial of his meditation app)
www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spir...
Jack Kornfield (THE PATH OF THE HEART)
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Ekhart Tolle (POWER OF NOW)
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Jed Mckenna Series
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[@frankyang]

But they're great tools :D I also talk about how awakening is in many sense binary, look no further than the mechanism of a cessation/Fruition/Nibbana (many thinks it's the prerequisite to Stream Entry, 1st level of enlightenment which I go into more details in the end of the video), when the lights of consciousness completely switches off and the brain is permanently reset. You can't get any more on/off than that ! Not to mention the "final shift" is qualitative different than all the other previous quantum shifts. Any psychedelics you take pre "formal Awakening" is still an experience under that dimension, thus not a true glimpse of The Thing. Again resources and book recommendation in the description box! Thanks for watching

[@rasputozen]

How do you know you're enlightened and that you haven't just hacked your brain to make it reset its impressions more frequently? I could imagine that would make one less judgmental and possibly more creative as much as it could be incapacitating, but why do you think that's any closer to enlightenment? And why do you think there's any such thing as Enlightenment with a capital E? How do you know our collective consciousness' plan isn't just to experience a fractional consciousness for a while to relieve itself from the burden of infinity?

[@Droque_tv]

dude I hope you only make your KZbin videos within this same character, that you always play out, because if you play it out 24/7, you are going to end up miserable. I say this because I care for you, not because I feel the need to change you. i'm not in resistance, I can appreciate who you've become... but the way you were coming across, you can spot it from a mile away, it's a façade. come back to Earth, which is what keeps you grounded. it's completely okay to be delusional from time to time. keep ascending in your spiritual path, I wish you nothing but the best. with much love, Daniel Roque.

[@timmytwoshorts4803]

You know wassup bros👍, psycadelics is nothing close and a no for me.

[@alexgruber3527]

As an human experiencer... FRANK, I'm so happy for you and your happiness, when you talk about awakening!!! I wish, that all humans would bee freed of awareness.... I think awareness is another barrier to dissolve. Whats done is done......... My grandpa always warned to not fall into the last sleep.... But for me, beeing awake or awareness is nothing more than faping.... You miss the real thing if you keep going awake... Surrender, to the beautiful interpersonal play of peroples narratives or souls... Upload yourself into the stream of the thoisand narratives... Its more a story than anything else... Its more a dream, than everything else.... Enlightenment is still so far from real shit...Enlightenment is one narrative, one reality tunnel, one parralel with the nazi ideologists, with the gardeners experience. Again.... One of the many colors of the human experience. No different from the others... Enlightenment is still an illusion.

[@alexgruber3527]

For me the most beautiful state is when nobody or no narrative or no logic makes any sense..... I got panic attacks for weeks... Awareness brings me panik attacks... Its over for me.

[@KlausHendryck]

The 360° Camera is the best teaching tool for consciousness I've ever seen 🤣👏

[@tonytaro47]

Wow its crazy seeing Frank's journey through his videos throughout the years. He seems so much happier now, gives me motivation to meditate more.

[@kittycatlolzable]

The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He'll never give up. If he'd let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness. - Zen Master Hakuin

[@AaronLyons]

Interpretation?

[@kittycatlolzable]

@@AaronLyons in the context of franks vid, "reaching for the moon in the water" is like confusing psychedelic states or god-realization (or any idea) as enlightenment. when in truth, those states are just mind-made concepts projected onto sensations. the last part of the poem, is just describing what enlightenment feels like.

[@AaronLyons]

@@kittycatlolzable it clicked now, thanks :)

[@gabrieljoseph1447]

You guys should do a podcast together. I'd love to see you guys in nature or something, testing out some psychedelics and having a conversation.

[@personalentertainment2168]

Second this. Leo does his own thing so unlikely, but an interview from each would be AMAZING!!

[@KL-tn1xc]

Can't wait to hear two guys, tripping out of their minds talking incoherently for 3 hours....

[@thisjourney2712]

Leo doesn't socialize with other people on KZbin. He'd probably say "they're not fully awake and wouldn't understand" or something like that.

[@ShaneCooley993]

Gonna say... Leo doesn’t collab

[@algenovese3017]

leo stays in his bubble i love leo but he wont collab

[@MarvinMonroe]

I used to go into this zone on LSD. But only when I was dancing also. I'd call it being "hyper aware" and it was the greatest feeling ever. Then it happened a couple times while I was running. Then I started reading Ramana Maharshi and about a year later I was stuck in traffic and just thinking and then I asked myself something like "who's having these thoughts?" And bam!! I got shifted back into that "hyper aware" zone But this time, since I had read about some stuff about "self realization" I guess I thought about it more than back when I was 18 or 20 years old dancing. I was 34 this time and just instantly realized what "I" really am and started laughing at how obvious it is and how it had always been there. It's that silent, unchanging observer. It's literally the same for all of us. Fear of death instantly went away. I looked out the car window and thought about how that awareness is everything. It all happened in less than a second from having that flash when I asked myself the question about who's observering my thoughts

[@theyogisinger7148]

This was me on a 1000mcg LSD trip, first kundalini awakening, now I’m slowly getting myself back to that “awareness” beyond that of a personality because it’s almost objective. You become one with all and there is no personal experience anymore really, just one flow

[@citizenofterra]

That's so cool man, great story!

[@aleks1980]

you are glowing man, way different energy than even a few months ago, before your awakening.

[@SuperTank121212]

I was gonna say this! Completely in tune with the source, super energetic yet calm, decisively honest and to the point but playful and childlike.

[@R9393b]

It’s been great watching franks journey

[@thesunris]

It's the dildo workouts

[@LiamEllis]

Frank so amazing to see you creating content again, missed it loads, and so fuckin stoked that you made it to enlightenment, really helping to put things in perspective and allow for real help in the community ❤️

[@mikaelkristian]

I love you frank yang! The way you explain with your child like enthusiasm makes my soul smile and i get even more inspired to follow this path further! 😍😍

[@kespikespikespi]

Frank became one of my best friend who I never met. He introduced me to many people and ideas I have never thought about which helped me try to figure out the truth. Thank you friend for helping me starting something that I can not articulate.

[@datboizheng]

see the description

[@kucaposo3642]

Youre a goddamn fool

[@kespikespikespi]

@@kucaposo3642 thanks

[@BIGDRESTA]

Been waiting for a video 💯

[@mohmj6815]

Love these vids dude keep em coming you massive legend

[@jeanvu]

What do I even say? Frank, you are truly amazing. I never want your videos to end because I feel like I am in a different world when I am watching them. It is back to reality once they are over. Never have I ever seen someone so free. This video was very insightful, just like all of your videos. There just isn't a shortcut to Enlightenment is there? Gotta put in thousands of hours into meditation. Love you, Frank!

[@frankyang]

MUCH LOVE BIG BROTHER!

[@kucaposo3642]

Idiot haha. Meditation will get u nowhere. Live in hope tho

[@jeanvu]

@@kucaposo3642 I dunno if that statement can apply to everyone. Look how far Frank has come, ever since he started to meditate. ❤️

[@kucaposo3642]

@@jeanvu and you want to copy someone else's way of life? The only reason u want to meditate is because religion has told u this is something that you should do, otherwise you wouldnt be doing it

[@jeanvu]

@@kucaposo3642 I don't consider myself a religious person. But religion can be any form of belief that you subscribe to. So spirituality and enlightenment is basically a religion just like christianity and buddhism. You have a point. I saw how enlightened Frank has become from meditating, and it inspired me to take up meditation in hopes of one day being able to experience cessation. To be fair though, anyone who is born into a society is influenced by literally everything around them. Even if they consciously block out influences, the influences still make their way into your subconscious. And even the things that you consciously are interested in, you did not create that original idea if you get what I am saying. We are living in the realities and dreams of other individuals. We drive cars and did not invent them, we use smartphones and laptops and we did not invent them, we live in houses and pay bills and most of us didn't built the houses and we didn't come up with the idea of paying bills, etc. Everything under the sun is not our own ideas and creations. We are all slaves if you want to see it that way. Freedom is a lie. You are only free if you were born in the wilderness, and even then, you aren't truly free because your body requires food and water, therefore you aren't truly free. You are bound to this body and it has limitations and requirements. Oh yeah, it needs oxygen as well. I appreciate your comment. But tell me if it is not being a little hypocritical? You say that I am copying someone else's way of life. Well, are you not copying someone else's way of life? Is your life 100% original? That would be very hard to do. To be 100% original, you would have to be born far away from society. Never being influenced by humankind. Saying that the only reason I want to meditate is because religion has told me that it is good for me, is the same as saying that the only reason someone wants to go on an alkaline diet is because spirituality told them that it is good for them. Would you not do something that actually yields positive results? Just because you didn't come up with the original idea, doesn't mean you have to avoid it.

[@paulbraunstein2290]

Beautiful camera work. It’s so interesting that after you had that trip now you perceive everything like you’re still tripping. Your soul was ready to experience reality in that way, so it gave it to you so early on.

[@jacobryansr]

Previously I was skeptical of your social presence but this video hit home. Probably one of the most eloquent explanations on the relationship of psychedelics and awakening.

[@eugenepeterside]

Many might not agree, but it had to be said! Great video man!

[@stoneeh]

Thank you especially for the resources in the description. I'm completely new to this whole topic and basically need to know where to start, lol.

[@ethansalley9459]

Thanks for the insights as always! Much love 🤙🏻

[@adamq8216]

Awesome video franky brah 😁

[@leonhardyt]

I love you, Frank. Someday I wanna visit you in Taiwan🙂 Everything you say resonates with me.

[@nookiebjuhr94]

Thank you for all the insights ❤️

[@JPxKillz]

Thank you for posting this, Leo really made me the demotivated and had me question the validity of proper practice. Though oyou reignited that spark in me, and I've been recently progressing through the Jhanas. I've never been clear minded. I can't thank you enough for correcting some of the misperceptions I gathered from that channel. It's a good channel, but as you said it can be very dangerous with the direction he's prescribing.

[@HY-dd6sc]

Really well put Frank, thanks

[@tnygp]

This video is art. Love the laptop to POV transition

[@temmuz9138]

bro some of the best material on youtube

[@lindaszlagowski8888]

Watching you in different Videos Interviews Talks, I am thrilled, confused, puzzled,intimidated sometimes not sure why l'm watching this almost obsessively. This one appears to me on the razor's edge between normal and crazy? It points toward more than I can grasp/digest. Anyway respect and gratitude😮😵😕🙏 Will try this Vipassana body scan. Sounds interesting practicable and potent!

[@JanZamani]

I love Frank Yang but not learned a single actual useful piece of information. More like a super entertaining spiritual and trippy video trip. Nothing wrong with that thought, I do enjoy it.

[@rasputozen]

Imagine you achieve full enlightenment, the holy grail, the philosopher's stone, Christ consciousness, you're the one, you're Neo. This is the video you make.

[@gladman9634]

there's nothing to learn m8. Emptiness is unlearning unknowing,.

[@ApplySkills]

Whether you understand or not, it wasn't your choice to begin with. If you don't understand, you don't understand

[@rasputozen]

@@ApplySkills Also there is no spoon.

[@VeritableVagabond]

@@gladman9634 bullshit. There wouldn't be monks and hundreds of other people teaching meditation.

[@TheSonOfPromise]

good stuff brah

[@doomertube7050]

Havent practiced meditation aside from a short session a few times a year for the last few years but I recall the same experience with mushrooms, much more of a body high and more laughter than any real perception shift. I think this has to do with mindset mostly and how people have a different natural gift to be more conscious and aware

[@Pruane35Forever]

find unity in your own body first , then you will see and feel and understand your unity w the infinite! i recently realized how stress and external factors made my mind so detached from my body, and this was a sick way to live and had my mind adrift and enslaved. connect with your stomach, your dna, the inner power in your bodily vessel, and how it is part of nature. BEAUTIFUL!

[@Cody_1787]

Love you Frank, Love you fellow viewers

[@nickyyortega]

Absolutely loooooove your energy ! T h a n k y o u for ur Beingness 💫

[@leonhardyt]

🙏 awesome to see you here, I know you from Instagram, keep up the amazing content!

[@nickyyortega]

@@leonhardyt 🥰💗✨

[@user-uw9xm2pi6q]

If you’re going to goenka again... be careful of saying too much to the teachers or staff there. Farrrrr less experienced than you are and will be threatened by your consciousness

[@00wez]

lmao

[@lingy74]

Word. I lie to the instructors all the time. They’re annoying af. 😂

[@lingy74]

@Earth Person I lack discipline. The structure and group meditation environment is encouraging 😏 and also I don’t have to think about feeding myself for 10 days.

[@frankyang]

Hahahh yess I knowwww ❤️🗿

[@jasoncrow6048]

Frank has visualized this meta description of an enlightened monk and acts as representation of it, its super funny. Greatest comedy so far!

[@lingy74]

I have met enough so called spiritual people to know when someone is regurgitating an idea vs someone speaking from direct experience. Frank is in the latter camp.

[@Jajujoo]

Frank, can you explain the exact techniques you've used these 5-7000 hours at some point? Maybe you said it before, you credit vipassana a lot and dzogchen if I'm not mistaken. Have you only done "Goenka"-vipassana and dzogchen? (I don't really know dzogchen hehe.) Never self-inquiry, kundalini yoga or any other meditation (concentrating on breath, techniqes by Daniel Ingram etc.)? How many hours per sitting and how many retreat-hours, and so on. If you could detail this, maybe in a video, it would be really really insightful and helpful! Btw I think you are the best thing on KZbin, and the best artist I know!! Watching your videos must be what nirvana is like!

[@DonPascquale]

😂😂

[@followthehooper]

Thank you frank !

[@kronicz6207]

Finally uploaded hell yes, you should upload more Frank need this content!

[@servitr]

Would you do a Q&A at some point? I have some questions that kind of prevent me from going down the path of enlightenment and I would really appreciate you clearing them up

[@InnerLuminosity]

I would give my left toe to chat with you on a podcast! You have no clue how much your channel has impacted. Thank you!!!

[@Albert-jj8nm]

Everytime I watch your videos its like something always triggers, something feels that. I know a little peak that comes. I feel it, but only for like a half second. Its always here, the best moment for enlightment is now, you dont have to be in a "spiritual" room for this. Its always here, it never vanishes, thats why there are no excuses for not to be.

[@rw4877]

That's why you have to make it a priority in your life, to focus on the moment as much as you can, in EVERY EXPERIENCE. Then in a few years, you will realize that your experience, is widly different from what other people are experienceing, and you will also realize why enlightened people become sensational.

[@ImLehwz]

Goodluck on you’re retreat bro! Let us know.

[@josephjackson3249]

Probably the best video ever made

[@Triggercut92]

They're fun though huh Frankie

[@jeanvu]

Frank says that even 5-MeO-DMT pales in comparison to his default state. It is absolutely wild!

[@storm0fnova]

@@jeanvu yeah and i bench 12 tons

[@jeanvu]

@@storm0fnova Damn Brah.

[@Igelme]

all the shrooms are turning him schizo lmao. repeating the words infinite emptiness and hologram over and over doesn't make you enlightened

[@InfinityCurve]

I had an experience that felt like cessation on ectasy & mushrooms, was sitting in my parking lot w cat in my lap & felt like I was zooming out from my body, kind of like you zoom out on Google maps and what I saw below me was all equally me & not me, the man with the cat in his lap was simply part of the picture as much "me" as anything else. I've been making efforts to have consistent meditation for over 10 years but I'm not feeling like it's about to produce a breakthru. You know when you're going down on a girl & your tongue is getting tired & you're losing heart & losing drive but then you feel her starting to moan & move in that pre-orgasmic way & you have that surge of motivation because you know you're on the right path. I want to hit that point in my meditative practice.

[@kissthesky40]

your body is the door. you are the key.

[@Beyondhumanlimits1]

Last night I had the weirdest sensation ever in my life. I was trying to sleep and my mind was racing because of a busy and stressful day. All of the sudden I felt completely detached and felt there were 3 of me. One was the very loud mind jumping from thought to thought, one was trying to quiet the other down by perceiving and being aware of the arising sensation of thought and the most mindfuck moment there was someone else watching all this unfolding and I felt that this thing was the real me. I could perceive the mouse and cat game between the other two "minds" "I's". Holy fuck.

[@Duck72432]

They are all you and not you. Like your talking voice isn’t directly you is it? But would be stupid to say it’s not you and someone else. But you do have the choice to ignore all thoughts the same way you can just stop talking out loud.

[@Beyondhumanlimits1]

@@Duck72432 i didn't say they are not me. I said other I's because it was easier for people to understand my experience. It humbled me. I realize now that self-control is an illusion. My actions are choreographed by a puppeteer(John Malkovic) but I just don't feel it.

[@Duck72432]

Bogdan Anea yes I understand Mooji talks about it like that with the “three birds” kzbin.info/www/bejne/a16lnqKtpcmkmtU

[@Beyondhumanlimits1]

@@Duck72432 Wow thanks for the video it's just what I needed to understand better.

[@joeldixton5627]

I've felt the same way some times. It's always three of them. And awareness of the self in that sense. The great Buddhist monks talk about how enlightenment in one word is impermanence.

[@millerfour2071]

What’s the difference between multi-orgasmic and the organism you talked about

[@GregetarianC]

10:52 - Daytime materialist checking in. They do enhance neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, dendrite outgrowth etc - so psychedelics do 'rewire the brain' but we don't know a thing about how these neural changes are implemented, or if they're implemented behaviourally/ cognitively. See DE. Olsen., 2018 "Psychoplastogens: A Promising Class of Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics".

[@cloudryder3497]

Everything you just said was beautiful

[@InnerLuminosity]

It was amazing

[@cloudryder3497]

@@InnerLuminosity Love You!

[@InnerLuminosity]

@@cloudryder3497 I love you GOD! 😉👌💪🕳️🙌

[@cloudryder3497]

@@InnerLuminosity You're Amazing!

[@InnerLuminosity]

@@cloudryder3497 you bring me so much Joy! Thank you for making me smile😁🌹❤️ Freedom! Weeeeeee!! Just havvvingggg funnnnn😜😜😜😜😜. Creation! GRACE👍 liberation from illusion of seperation, secation of self , blank screen, paradox, blah blah blah WORDS😂😂😂😂 just me talking with me! Weeee hi me👋

[@diepimmelkuh1341]

Hi Frank, what do you prefer: (Eckhart) Tolle or Trolle (german for trolls) ? A girl asked me this question an a dream last night and it was impossible to answer for me.

[@diepimmelkuh1341]

Thank you for your answer. Yes I know she asked me, and Franks opinion wouldn‘t change my uncertainty. Still im curious what he might think. Cause he talks a lot about Tolle but is the troll in Person and the question itself is kind of ˋtrolly´. Also he made some either/or statements like saying ˋi prefer cartoon/anime over real movie, cause its closer to emptyness‘ on which i personally disagree considering movies like ˋlost in translation’. Cheers

[@johnproctor8168]

Maybe you know deep down that both are basically the same? Full of crap.

[@-report1070]

i totally agree with you. this what i realized

[@mmarkymarkk]

Hey Frank, I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to attain spiritual/physical powers/senses. Any thoughts? Love your vids btw brah

[@lingy74]

Yes. Most definitely. But that’s not the point. And by the time you get to the state of mind where you can access these powers you’re like meh, wtever. Coz you’re no longer interested in ego games.

[@mmarkymarkk]

@@lingy74 hm well some people could use their powers for the purpose helping others healthwise or in a spiritual way. I’m thinking more like the stories I’ve heard about yogis with powers. But I think you may still be right, even those yogis might not believe in interfering with peoples lives for the sake of not adding to their ego

[@Ihaveausernametoo]

Sure is. "Siddhis".

[@antonlarm8178]

Absolutely. After my enlightenment I truly realized how my thoughts create my reality. If I want to warp my reality I just decide the thoughts I enjoy and "karma" will manifest whatever I am asking for. So in practise I can play as God and achieve whatever I want, It is hard to motivate yourself tho, since you realise what is of truth worth now.

[@mmarkymarkk]

@@antonlarm8178 well I find helping others grow in their spiritual path as true worth. If I could somehow attain spiritual powers/senses specifically for helping others with that, then I’d really appreciate it

[@Tamer_108]

Thoughts on Do Nothing/Shikantaza? It's my main method currently, with the qualified addition of dropping thoughts/daydreams when they arise (not only 'intentions' as Shinzen says, which are rarer to arise. Seems salient to break the addiction to thought as well, otherwise the 'Do Nothing' is 90% daydreaming and fantasising, hence this qualification). Basically Ramana's 'surrender' technique. Haven't been doing it for too long, but I have tried many methods over the years, and I've come to feel recently that this is the one most suited to my constitution. I don't know, to be quite frank Frank, my response to your videos has been a mixture of jealousy and frustration. Been at this thing for a few years now quite intensely (I am 24) and idk, I feel like I've gotten nowhere, somehow just been ending up in self-deluded or otherwise fruitless places. Was exposed for quite a while to the non-dual scene in London, and that just seemed to worsen things. Just lots of self-deluding, strangeness and some psychological disorder, but no dice. Just feel frankly fed up with the whole thing, hearing spiritual talk makes me sick at this point. Totally fucking over it. Do Nothing/Shikantaza is the only thing of any relevance to me any more: just fucking giving up, offering up the mind. Everything else just feels like more cul-de-sacs and merry-go-rounds.

[@jeanvu]

I can relate. It certainly is not easy being in this predicament. I am really looking forward to December 21st, 2020 in hopes of something BIG happening. I just want to find myself. Whatever that means. To finally be comfortable in my own skin. That is my definition of my own Enlightenment. That enough would make me happy. It just gets tiring being alive. And thinking. And wondering. I want to be free like Frank. I want to appreciate and love the present moment. Be high on life 24/7. But I am unwilling to put in the thousands of hours of meditation. But then there is nothing else that is more worthwhile than that. Why am I "wasting" time doing things other than the very thing that I should be focused on and living for: meditating in order to reach Enlightenment? I have changed quite a bit ever since I first started watching Frank. I wasn't even able to grasp or understand what he was talking about when I first stumbled upon his channel. But now I can happily say that I can grasp what he is talking about. But I want to actually experience it. Be patient, my friend. You don't have to listen to spiritual talk anymore if you don't want to. You just have to meditate for thousands of hours. It is not an easy answer to accept. But that is how you attain Enlightenment. Much love. Enjoyed reading your comment.

[@jeanvu]

@@patrickoliveira8705 People don't really practice what they preach. You should be a master in your field before trying to teach others', or else your attempt at teaching will be in vain. And it might get lost in translation. I appreciate Frank for really being the embodiment of "Practice what you preach". Do you think I am nuts for hoping and thinking that something BIG will happen on December 21st, 2020? All this spiritual stuff can really get to you. Sometimes the spiritual community can feel like a giant cult. Imagine a world where there was a million Frank Yangs. Or at least people that are on his wavelength. If we had a million Frank Yangs as teachers, I can bet that the world would be much more free.

[@drolgaws]

Yo dude trust me look up siftingtothetruth - he specifically has a video on the differences between do nothing and surrender (his interpretation of Ramana Maharshi’s surrender). Myself and friends have had lessons with him and i think he is the real deal.

[@Tamer_108]

@@patrickoliveira8705 Well yes, that's what I was hoping to do during my year-and-a-half of attending multiple nonduality satsangs every week in London. Was looking to make a connection with one of the teachers and move to 1-on-1, but unfortunately I didn't really connect on a personal level with any of them. They were all awake, that much was clear from the energy, but the Neo-Advaita is just so fucking grating after a while, they are frankly speaking inhumane, and so as I say it's not entirely surprising that a deeper connection didn't come about with any of the teachers I encountered there. But yes, as you are suggesting maybe some virtual 1-on-1s in this COVID time, might be a good idea. I've been attending Jon Bernie's satsangs every week (a truly amazing person), but I think specifically organising a 1-on-1 is something I need to do. I shall look into Dhammarato and Alan Wallace; I'm familiar with Ken McLeod. Thanks. I had a 7-day retreat booked in with Igor Kufayev in Germany this month, but alas it was cancelled for self-evident reasons. And yes lol, spiritual groups (esp. the singularly nondual/neoadvaita kind) can definitely be crazy-making. Thanks.

[@Tamer_108]

@@drolgaws Yes, I am familiar with Akilesh. Didn't get too much out of his definition of surrender, everything I've heard him say on the topic as far I can understand it amounts to nothing more than Shinzen's well-known instruction, "As soon as you're aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention." Also, Akilesh's instruction to focus on 'ignoring thought' is vague to me (in practice), it just entails a slight expansion of the Shinzen technique - now we're volitionally dropping all thoughts, not just intentions. But yes, that's just the videos though, I'm aware he offers 1-on-1s too - he's been on my list of potential people to contact as well - so perhaps I should organise a session. For some reason I've been somewhat reluctant to organise 1-on-1s, there's some resistance there, not wanting to be found out or something, there's a feeling that'd be too intrusive. But yes, this month, I shall organise at least one. No point complaining and then resisting this. Thanks.

[@shortmindedbitches]

love to you frank

[@realtoast495]

Hi Frank, does the enlightenment process include intense cycling of pain in the brain? Thank you 🙏

[@lucifvar]

Now that you are 100% enlightened, do cessations still feel like "nothing", like frames are cut? Or is it different?(be it just before or just after a cessation)

[@gratefulFabi]

just curious how many times have you done psychedelics?

[@plom3518]

you did it frank

[@lordhorrorshow]

useful insight... hope your retreat goes well n something unexpected happens. maybe you'll go super saiyan 2...

[@mongopoju]

Frank what are your thoughts on the Divine Feminine as a source or an entity? What part does this dualistic concept play in our perception of reality?

[@n1colux]

Great Video. I´ve done a couple of experiments with LSD and the more i "researched" the more i becoming drawn to meditation and doing the actual work. I think Psychedelics can show you what is possible, and then go for you and do the actual work. Like you said, its about locking it in, even tho Psychedelics can dissolve all Duality, it will come back when the Substance is wearing off.

[@marcelm-meatstatues8207]

I think it’s easy for your personal biases and assumptions to put you in a position. Where you feel it’s important to congratulate yourself on observing the mind “natty” and it’s just as much an ego dick stroke to say meditation is the answer as much as it is to say psychedelics the answer; I just think that psychs give you a greater sample size of awakened beings and has undeniable roots in the cultures of pre historic societies, mainly used as compensatory tools to equilibrate the subconscious mind.

[@cricket62200962]

thank you

[@humlagumma]

I remember when i was suicidal for som years ago. And i watched your video on it ,it really moved me with the quote ”does who are suicidal do not want to die they want to live more then ever” and that really helped me so i wanted to say thanks. But yeah the damage already has been Done. Once i wanted to strangel myself to death, i knew it Dosent work (and manliy for i was affraid of dieing) but i came close and i remember that i falled out of my body seing me laying there, i Said to myself what an fool i am and pulled myself back to my body was that some kind of World? did i create a new world? did i die there? i was wondering what it all meant? Beacasue i have heard pepole talk about different worlds when they Are meditateing or triping

[@humlagumma]

Not looking for an anwser more of a litte closer understanding. And mabye someone has experient the same

[@meloun5798]

How does this state impact Frank's emotional relationship to/ conception of death?

[@StrictlyChosen]

youre awesome ;)

[@whitenozze]

What are your thoughts on taking pyschodelics just to switch up your perceptions, without any real goal?

[@Reppintimefitness]

I'm the greatest ever 😌

[@kuri190]

Although you are so dramatic, funny or even crazy in some moments I see you do know whats up😉

[@Charles2k]

1:07 love that

[@liteball5188]

When is the video of you and James Eugene Carrey getting released?

[@jeanvu]

This needs to happen.

[@KapitalJackGame]

Right, but have you smoked Salvia Divinorum?

[@TripleNippleNick]

I feel like I totally understand both peoples worldviews and think they’re both true and contradictory

[@magickspirituality1291]

Best comment!

[@manuelkanakaris64]

I did lsd , and woke up. 2 months after the trip it lasted. After that due too lack of discipline i fell back into dark night.

[@LaisCordiolli]

I understand your point about enlightenment. But I also think psychedelics can be a pathway for a more aware and loving life, specially for those who have been through trauma, like myself, and tend to have a rigid psychological structure. I agree enlightenment takes more dedication to keep the mind in that state.

[@tablancoo]

I can't really enjoy tripping because I have cardiovascular issues that distract me whenever I take them and it's sometimes painful. Hearing that you can achieve that God state natty is motivating.

[@epicbehavior]

What retreat are you going to? Trying to find a good one.

[@mongopoju]

Does being enlightened affect your ability to make gains in the gym? I'm assuming one wouldn't care about upgrading the meat suit beyond some point?

[@Wataheo]

Thanks Uncle Fronk... Can relate to what you say and understand through experience, I was too chasing my own tail and thinking I reached stream entry through the use of psychedelics and experience ego death by then afterwards for a few weeks somewhat going through the AP & DN, man... loose ends closed after this watch.

[@brandontutors]

0:01 What is the relationship between wind-laden audio and the viewer experience?

[@dennisvvugt]

@#NoCenter #NoWhere #Everywhere what is (your) perspective on satori? can that not been regarded as a glimpse lets say from a dualistic point view, perspective? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori

[@Ph.C]

Guru Battle ! Let's go !

[@vrilmaxxed]

Frank is not a guru

[@cloudryder3497]

It is pretty interesting though when I come out of meditation it feels like I'm tripping on acid. The more awake I become the more it feels like I'm tripping 24/7.

[@leonard0104]

man i wanna have that energy

[@MarvinMonroe]

If you wanna try and think about what it feels like when you realize the self I've got a thought experiment for you. Ok, imagine you are a fish. A type that lives deep in the ocean. You never jump on the surface up into the air or anything like that. And you're talking to another fish and he's trying to describe water to you. He's like "it's all around us! We're always in it" and on and on. But you don't have anything to compare it against so it's hard to get what he's talking about. Now just imagine what that fish feels when he finally realizes what water is. This is the point of the thought experiment. He's like "oh shit, that!?!? That's what you've been talking about this whole time??! It's always been here!" And he can never unsee it. Substitute humans for the fish and consciousness/awareness for the water. Of course its just an analogy. The point though is to put yourself in the fish's shoes and imagine what goes thru his head the instant he realizes water

[@albert1635]

What psychic experiences did you experience? Do you think it’s objectively true?

[@hugostiglitz_]

Fronk, why dont you do those brain scans to see what comes up. It would be a fun video seeing the doctor talking about it. Not saying that your sick or something, because you wouldnt care either hahaha. Just curious. Much love

[@JennaLilyAussie]

Thanks babe

[@-PureRogue]

Can you tell what ego defenses you had when you reached peak before Enlightenment, did you start to get any understanding of reality that was completely different from what you had thought of it before?

[@kevinmadison2088]

Do you have a posture you prefer for sitting?

[@benplant7119]

What about mahasamadhi?

[@StrawberryDonutKing]

I think psychedelics can help people to believe. They cause your mind to think "oh so this is how I can think, this is how aware and present I can be". Psychedelics don't do anything your mind isn't intrinsically capable of, besides MAYBE hallucinations, but perhaps with awakening even that becomes a choice. With this, you don't simply KNOW that if you meditate enough, practicing genuine contemplative fitness, your mind can be like how it is when you're tripping, even better probably: you will BELIEVE it too.

[@bqfilms]

agreed, it can be the pill, you know an arising and passing as frank says, then you know the possibility of what the world jhas to offer

[@asura8495]

beef in the spiritual community! when's the boxing match?

[@theglobe793]

Leo vs frank, one round boxing one round mma

[@Duck72432]

There’s no two spiritual teachers that agree with each other 😂

[@asura8495]

@@Duck72432 so a battle royal?

[@solalacrima7814]

i like this channel 😂

[@siriusBhive]

Correct... There is no perceiver,,, only perceiving. No outside No inside (;) only the outside inside wholeness ~ as a hive bound bee

[@nickpumpeth]

So observing the ego is the same as observing your arm or leg? It’s just there but it’s not “you”

[@rotmgdabeatz]

Yeah thats what he said about observing and detaching yourself step by step. First you observe your leg, arm, muscles and detach yourself by self inquiry and the last step is detaching yourself from the ego and observer. There was never a standalone observer or an ego. They are as codependent as anything else in this world. An equal part of the absolute as any other part

[@Doxographophobe]

no separation

[@Tombalino]

Enlightenment brah

[@brambroccoli4414]

In Leo's last 30 day retreat he said that he almost had a cessation of consciousness, but he was too scared to permanentally leave his body.

[@leonidas4998]

Do you think you will still feel the same when you are 80 and have 50 more years of meditation experience? Do you think you can reach a state beyond where you are now? If not, whats the point?

[@lingy74]

This is the part of the journey I’m most looking forward to. What happens to frank after this. 🌸💫

[@InnerLuminosity]

@@lingy74 he will prolly disintegrate into thin air

[@violetli]

Alan watts provides an observation, the perception of observer is tied to the focus by which the thing is observed, the zoom or magnification to which we see things makes us believe that what we are seeing is separate to what the thing actually is. We see the tapestry and its marvelous, ordered and interpret-able, zooming in we see the thread, a messy tangled mess of fabrics, zooming in we see the marvel of the atom, beyond that a mess of electrons and neutrons... and on and on. I wonder if the scientific approach to magnification will one day render the cells of the body the exact universe that we are the observers of. like a mirror of a mirror. Explaining such states of observation and the observed are difficult to communicate, because the language fails to communicate it, how can you communicate everything, and nothing at the same time? the explanation, is of itself universality. Psychedelics seems like temporal magic, an aide to bring you beyond externality a sense that the observer is somehow integrated from the idea or concept prescribed to us, that anything of of our self is of the other. If an observer from space observed the earth from space would they be of the opinion that we are part of the organism cell or atom know as the planet earth, and from the observer on earth the observer on space would appear to be an organism, cell or atom of the universe. The difficulty of explaining this, is in having attachment, to the feeling, that someone can receive not the words, but the experience. Maybe there is a language being language, but how do we communicate that? I feel your struggle in being able to express the words but not the sensation. I enjoy your video Frank. I watch them when I feel my mind start to silo information and get too involved in the prescribed reality. Is the sense of presence and non-judgement in the inebriated state of psychedelics, the mechanism by which the experience is felt? And is the release of the bind that keeps the observer in the state when the drug wears off brings them out of the present? I don't know. Science is just magic that we understand.

[@VangKevinCatfish]

When you truly believe. Congrats you are fully enlightened and no body care