The best analogy ive have for what you are explaining is: imagine the universe is a lake, and you are a glass of water. If you put the glass on the lake the water is not part of the lake but simply on it. But when you truly relax and allow the water to be poured in the lake then it is part of it. I like to imagine that the solid edges of the glass are made of ice which is caused by the duality of the mind, the rigidity of our thoughts. If you relax the mind and body, the heat of the universe is allowed to to melt the glass and free the self.
I know this feeling, if you've experienced it before then Frank's ramblings will actually make some sense but as he says it's extremely difficult to describe. I've experienced it twice before from what I can remember and both times were from moments of intense concentration. The exact moment of an epiphany but if you can imagine the "aha!" moment of a realisation to be extremely intense, that's how I experienced the first step. It's very interesting how Frank put a lot of fractal visuals because that's exactly what I was studying both times when it happened: the more you look into fractals the more you realise that literally everything is a fractal even if it doesn't appear to be at first. The very realisation of this concept (to be undeniably true in my mind but whose to say if the universe actually is built this way) sparked that epiphany feeling really intensely, once that happened then the second stage of the feeling set in. The best way to describe it would a [continued..]
Feeling of "oneness" that many meditation masters describe. The feeling is surreal, I've been told that certain drugs can trigger the feeling such as LSD but basically put, you feel as though everything is the way it is and that's okay, everything has its place in the universe and that's okay. A person may have a really angry personality but that's okay too, everything is the way it is and it's as although everything seems perfect exactly how it is and everything makes sense. You feel a part of something really big, instead of feeling like your own person you feel like everything around you, like an observer rather than a human. Frank was saying it feels as though nothing matters at all, a basketballer would hit another one in the face and it's like they are playing. If you could imagine a cell in a body interacting with another one it's virtually significant
+DavidKFZ The other thing that's also interesting is the observer phenomenon, another way you know you're feeling this state is when you look at any sensation and they are all the same. Having sex is the same as getting a nail driven through your hand: your senses are being triggered. The body feels like a vessel that can experience a small number of sensations but in a number of ways, but at the end of it all the feelings are so small and insignificant they don't matter, they are there to be experienced but don't mean anything. It all makes the universe seem so large and you feel so small, you get to use your senses to explore an extremely small portion of the universe where everything has its place and everything is happening as it should. It really does seem that way, you don't need drugs to achieve the feeling but you need to be concentrating on some really deep stuff. Let me know if you've felt this before too and if so, what lead you to feel it?
+DavidKFZ It is like a state of derealization. Everything is their and it feels like you know it. But you feel like you are just a part of this all. Really hard to describe. It becomes boring and your going to ask yourself if everything is real.
+Break the Chain Yes, drugs can definitely trigger the chemical change in the brain to achieve this effect, I'm not an expert on any drugs but the fact that someone can feel the effect without any substance being ingested is amazing. 1st time I was reading a paper on the net about how a specific theory works for the universe, the theory stated that "God" is the universe and wants to learn more about itself, conscious beings are ways it uses senses to attempt to learn more. The piece had very complex writing and difficult words but I was managing to get through it at a slower pace. At one stage I could start to feel my prefrontal cortex (Willpower muscle in brain) start to burn but I persisted reading, it actually felt hot. After a bit more reading (I was absolutely still the whole time) I started to feel less burn but then my vision felt a bit weird and my body went half numb in a relaxed way. About a minute later I sat back and had the feeling described in earlier posts.
What you had is satori, a glimpse of enlightenment. You will have more and more satori experiences until one day it will totally switch and you cant lose it anymore. From my own experience, even after you have permanently switched to non-dual state, the experience will still get deepen. It will be like apple upgrading iOS software every few months. It can happen differently for you though. At one point you will be able to be conscious even during a deep sleep.
+Frank Yang It a long journey that involves zen retreats, usage of psychedelics including ayahuasca, kundalini awakening and receiving shaktipat from a guru...If you need more details i can write you an email or facebook message you about it . I also want to tell you that each person's journey is unique in its own way and theres no such thing as the best way. That intelligence behind everything you talked about in this video already knows exactly what experience you need in order to wake up from this dream called life. Nothing is ever wasted or trivial like all your arts, the bodybuilding, books you have read, childhood experiences, all the people you've met in your life... They all have a role in this. After that it will be like lucid dreaming all the time, the only difference from the normal dreaming is that there will be no "I " in there. The only thing left thats permanent is awareness of the impermanence of everything if that makes sense lol. I wish you all the best and may you attain it soon
"It's really something that can't be shown....each and every one of us have access to this infinite intelligence...nobody is better or worse than another person..." It's weird how you always seem to eventually share my inner thoughts, immature thoughts that haven't been fully developed to the point that I can properly explain it to somebody, through video. One of the main reasons I subscribed to your channel years ago was because I somehow saw we share the same mentality. I'm sure some people in this comment section is the same as well. Keep living Fr0nk.
You're so close to the way, the truth and the life, bro. The one who changed my life forever, it's definitely Jesus Christ. And no, I'm not here to preach or anything, just wanted to share, that's all. I had a beautiful and spiritual encounter with Him. More than once. And I've never been the same since. 4 years since the Holy Spirit came upon me. It's the best thing that has ever happened to me. But okay, I'm done now. You will be in my prayers, Frank! God bless you!
+C.D. not at all. I am the church. What people call "church", is just a building where believers go to fellowship. But I understand that I AM THE CHURCH. And I love to go out to pray for people and share the good news. Face to face is where it's at. I don't do religion, I'm all about relationship. Religion leads to hypocrisy, and devilish ways, relationship leads to righteousness and a Spirit led life. Anyways. If the church ever hurt you or did you dirty in any way, I'm truly sorry for that. I know there's many Christians that don't apply the fruit of the Spirit to their lives, therefore they don't represent the way they should. I'm quite aware of that, so I definitely apologize for that. I'm trying to clean up anyone's mess, one day at a time, one person at a time. By the grace of God. Much love, man.
Frank, I can relate to some of this. The first and only time where I felt a moment of epiphany (with lasting impacts) was 10 years ago, for a philosophy class in high school. I was researching the basic concepts of perception vs Truth. It was a very deep concept for me, and after a few hours of reading and thinking it suddenly clicked. I clearly recall the disorientation I felt, as if I had suddenly realised that Everything was a great lie. That epiphany was a turning point for me in how I react to and interpret many situations; that nothing was real, yet paradoxically, everything was real. As the years passed, I believe I have simply become more and more in control of judgement and assumption. Everything seemed to become a game. But do I still want to play it? To this day, I still don't know. In emotional situations, I tell myself the words "judgement defeats us." This was a quote from Apocalypse Now. It helps me to detach from the situation and realise, how foolish we all are.
I often think we spend massive amounts of time searching for answers to questions that don't have any answers. People give things meaning where there isn't necessarily any meaning. Religion, philosophy, all of it is just treading water seeking answers to things that might not even have an answer. I think as humans we really want this life, and our experiences to have some type of higher purpose, to mean something more than just "existing" and the fact we can be so observant of ourselves, thoughts and behaviours doesn't help that. It's as if we go around in circles, like an intelligence that's obsessed with figuring stuff out, creating things, improving ourselves in every single way, but actually can't find any real answers to any of the stuff that bothers us. So we settle for what makes "sense" to us. I don't know if any of this makes any sense. I find it hard to write down what I actually want to say but I do feel that we have always been searching for answers to the "meaning" of just existing, and when you look back at our history. We aren't any closer to answering any of these things. Everything we experience is subjective to the individual. If you spend large amounts of time meditating it seems like interesting breakthroughs can happen, like taking dmt. Maybe there is a higher meaning to life. But that also doesn't mean that when your brain stops firing you continue to exist in some form either. But it seems a lot of people have trouble grasping the fact that might be the case.
Frank, What camera do you use? Sometimes it looks like a gopro with the slow mo shots and wide angle lens, but others, the focus pulls which Idk, do go pros even have auto focus?? Do you use a mix of both? would love to know! :]
very powerful video frank. junior year of highschool i started meditating for long hours like you said (10+hours) and listening to alan watts ect. Ever since then, since i stopped, i have felt like my life has fallen apart and i have noticed the more i have become obsessed with music and art. Those sounds at 4:56 really triggered me bac into that state of mind thanks frank i know what to do know.
Will Smith is a good example. look at all his movies. think about how much human hours have gone in to make movies like I Am Legend, Pursuit of Happyness. all the editing, the shooting, the acting, the marketing. And in all of them, its he is the hero. its like his superconscious mind magnetizes those around him to create his art. I think Frank is beginning to enter his sublime self
I'll be honest i havent watched a video of franks for a long time and lately have been feeling the exact same way in regards to escaping the bubble this is crazy.... happy to hear frank talking about this
I really like your videos frank, I watched this a few times trying to understand everything and I feel like I come closer to the answer to all my questions every minute I watch of you, but I feel like I trying to hard to find those answers so I should just go with the flow of the universe.
frank you have to find yourself, find what you want, do what you want, continue until you find the void after you've spent yourself away, but don't stop changing
I love your work frank, i can connect very well with these deep talk videos, as they are very similar to my current thoughts. its funny that youre worried wheather your intention came through or not. your intention to show me that i'm in charge over my reality, and that this power is already within everyone of us definitely got through. actually i had these thoughts before, but i was insecure about them, cause i seemed to be the only one who got that idea, before i discovered your channel. and i also started reading Kant. from all the hundreds of books ive read, this is some real shit. kinda feel like most new modern literature and youtube content is just scratching the surface for quick target group satisfaction, instead of going deep and creating synthetic knowledge, that is may less attractive, but does more good in the long term.
There is duality. On the absolute level, nothing does matter, everything is the same and equal. But in the way we function, nature functions (competition exists), you are not good enough, you need to get better, you need to fight. We function as individuals, we peerceive and build hiearchies. This is recognizable in nature. In global, complex view, everything is meaningless, emotions are nothing, etc, but we still live "in our brains, behind our eyes, feeling the pain, etc.". Its probably not good idea to try completely eliminate this pain and ilussion of self. Im trying to be cappable of peacefuly accepting the strugle that living existence is. Always return from the absolute realm to your "illusion self", because as before you were born and after you die, the illusion will be gone anyway.
Teal swan, Stuart Wilde and Louis Hayes are some great spiritual teachers that genuinely changed the way I see life. You learn to hold a space for multiple perspectives.
The vacuum that sits inside each of us you are talking about, at later stages it will expand outside of the body and you will perceive emptiness not only inside but in everything around as well. There will be no longer inside or outside, it will all become One.
i think i understand what you're talking about and even if i don't it still made me consider some thoughts in a different light. Are you speaking of what we consider serenity and how life is enjoyable but from a different perspective? to look at the stimulus itself and question why it is so and even how? to look for it in everything and yet nothing, to exist both with and without conscious thought.
omg, yes frank. I've felt this way too. Its like an out of body experience or better worded as, out of existence experience. It's a state of out of existence in a way. I realized the same thing, that "life" or whatever human consciousness is, is insignificant in the grand scheme of things (ie in the universe, the galaxy, and the galaxies). You can take it any way you like. It is the truth though. This can be taken as a relief. Relief, knowing that we are just pieces of a vast "space" we do not even know experience or even can be in. For example, what is "time"? Isn't just a human construct? So in the grand scheme, isn't our perception just insignificantly different from the vastness or emptiness we have not been in? isn't "experience" just a human condition? So in general, Like you said, and similar to a quote I heard, "A centipede cannot walk when it thinks about its legs," can apply here. This state really opens your "mind", or what others say is your third eye, open to non-existence or the "emptiness" that you, others, and I have a difficult time describing.
Makes no sense to most people but in his logic it makes perfect sense. If you break it down and see past the words hes saying, the ideas his words represent are really profound. Its kind of hard to articulate the ideas hes trying to talk about.
This video is really great, I was mindfucked visually and by your words. This shit is very interesting Fronk. I know what you mean by watching something and just observing all the small details and being amazed by the dynamics of it all. Its like a meditative state. Meditation has helped me bring more of that in my life however fleeting it is for me right now (I haven't been meditating regularly lately). Also this video made me laugh man. Now I want to meditate more, thanks man.
very similar situation happened during my last cid trip, lets just say i do not longer have the feel to take cid ever again haha but everything frank is talking about makes sense, the things he is saying and talking about can be very difficult to talk about when not in person but for the most part he is right, love is hate hate is love we all need to get along before its too late
Is this all that important? Are we all important enough to focus on this? What if we didn't ask these questions and just lived good lives, not harming others? Is that enough? Is it enough for some, and not enough for others?
zilcher that's exactly what I'm saying. Why waste your one life finding the "truth"? What if there isn't a truth? Why look for something we weren't made to find?
Hi frank, I know this video has a bigger scope than this. but i can relate to what you were saying in the beginning that everything you were trying to create you were trying to communicate something and this thing cannot even be xplained. anyway i feel like the goal of art is to pursue the truth through aesthetics. and for that i want to recommend to you a book by a filmmaker Sculpting in Time by Andrei tarkovsky. some quotes from the book " But in an artistic creation the personality does not assert itself it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle." "The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act."
Hey Frank, I don't know if you will read this, but, would you say that your recent experiences have left you feeling like an extraterrestrial from another dimension, who has just ascended on to earth and is bewildered by even the most basic things. Who is baffled by every detail on this green earth. I have experienced this recently. It feels like a rebirth. I have seriously considered, not even considered but concluded, that this reality really is a simulation created by some other entities. Almost like computer program...
does anyone get frequent deja vu's? like it feels like its a type of lag in a simulation, that it glitches and shows you a future part of the game you're playing
Dude you showed it really, really well. You show yourself. Read some books of ancient Zen masters, like Joshu, Huang Bo, etc. The void is your mind, your mind is infinite and empty. There is nothing else. It's what you are. I'm not there, but read Huang Bo, Joshu, Linji, Wumen, ancient Zen masters.
Frank, it sounds like you entered fifth jhana through meditation. Check it out and read up on it if you are interested. Leigh Brasington has a talk on TH-cam about the jhanas.
everythings okay, thats it..... words are just words, its just another form of communicative intelligence some people have, combining them and making people believe that what they are hearing is something new and different, but deep inside, its something they already knew.
I didn't understand what message he was trying to get across. Due to his abnormal prose. But what I assume he was trying to explain is the fact that everything in life is a stimulus and nothing more. And that we are all here just experiencing the world together, and that we are all as indulgent and as fragile as each other. Regardless of class or background. So basically. he realised that things he enjoys are a chemical reaction in his brain. And that means the things we think are important and special, really aren't. Maybe that's what he discovered. Who knows. As for when he said that there is a stillness in everything, I disagree with that. Calmness, yes, but not stillness. Nature and the world is always moving, the trees sway and water flows. Life begins and flows away slowly. Even mountains crumble and shrink, wind and water shifts the rock and soil. I don't think meditation is about stillness, it's about becoming almost fluid like. To calm yourself and flow with your surroundings, much like in yoga. When you meditate with an egotistic goal, or sit there thinking about how much attention you are getting, or focus on staying still and holding the perfect meditation pose, don't be surprised that it doesn't work. To be human is to be solid, which is why the ebb and flow of life breaks us apart so relentlessly. but if you learn to move with life's ebb and flow and become sympathetic with your body and surroundings, then you will find that life's movements don't take so harsh a toll on you. Resistance is mankind's biggest enemy and ally.
Seems like a lot of these scientists of the mind are only talking about surface level stuff. I really liked this video frank. Did these experiences come about purely through long periods of extended mediation? I would like to start meditating for my anxiety, stress, general sadness etc. But I just never get around to it and it seems so simple to start.
Do you think I need to experience a state of pure aesthetics and devotion to art before I can start tackling consciousness at its pure form? I just started to explore the trippy and lifting aspect of life, and I was thinking that probably might be the first step on a journey you started a really long time ago.
Why do people just take pictures discreetly and then leave, if I was there I'd at least start a conversation, then ask for a permission to take pictures. People don't value that this days huh
Can someone elaborate on how he looked at things through an artistic and athletic vibe? I think i understand what hes saying by looking at things through those perspectives. While he was looking at things through an athletic vibe it was because thats what he identified himself as, a bodybuilder.
try thinking of where the core of things come from, instead of how things evolve. Existence is "one" or "whole", we will never leave existence, our own memories and data which is our minds and "our self" might disappear. but we was always a part of "a whole". whatever we do it will always have the same ground and core which is the universe and the universe is dancing, we are dancing with it. we can do whatever we want. when two things som this universe meets, differens sides and dances of the universe is shown between those two things, it is simply chemistry. Dont be afraid that there is no meaning with what you do, because the universe and existence has been doing things sens the very first second, whatever you are doing is a part of the dance :)
*smokes DMT* I got the answers to everything in life and will never ever forget and will share this ground breaking knowledge with everyone once my trip ends *15 minutes later* oh it can’t be translated into words. Basically how every DMT trip goes for me 😂
Frank, what do you do after you're out of that circle? I've been going through the same thought process of what's superficial and not, but even then I also find it meaningless because after I figure out that I don't want to fit within the circle I don't know what to do.
from what I heard, people who are outside the circle can freely return to the matrix and pick a human role and play it to the fullest degree, like becoming a master pick up artist or a janitor.
Richard Feynman on fools: “- and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools - guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus - THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!” Frank Yang is a pompous fool.
Jed McKenna, U.G. Krishnamurti (my favorite, he's hilarious), Stephen Jourdain, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Chögyam Trungpa, Adyashanti, Alan Watts, Vernon Howard (shout out to R.S.), Robert Anton Wilson, idfk. There're so many audiobooks and podcasts out there, I'm sure you'll find something.
Eckhart Tolle, Buddhist Geeks (this is a podcast, but it's not very flowy and artistic), Franklin Merrell-Wolff (he's supposed to be very good), Gary Weber, Richard Rose, Douglas Harding, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aleister Crowley, G.I. Gurdjieff, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Frank, are you familiar with Alan Watts? I love the things you are saying. It is very difficult to describe like you said. I feel it is hard to show people these things, at least in a literal term. People will understand it through osmosis through you just being you in your vids.
man, i just want to sit down with you over a landscape view and just talk. I'm literally so like you philosophically. Just curious do you know of alan watts? Just youtube his lectures.
I know what you're talking about. However, left unchecked, our idea that that there is no real distinction between things is as meaningless as it causes everything to become. True-If you deconstruct everything to its constituents then the universe really is one thing. The greatest reasoning and the most base primal urges do occur in the same arena, but so what? Mindfulness does reveal this basic reality and truth of everything/nothing.It's interesting, it's something many people will never get to feel and experience even if they understand.I don't think thats the be all and end all though. I think it is the true meta context in which everything else falls under and into. Without even bothering to get into the likelihood that a strong number of people would become in touch with "The Divine"I don't think ego death or mindfulness will actually cause many people to act significantly differently or is any kind of solution to the worlds problems. It's a great way to not be consumed by them though. Relinquishing opinion and belief doesn't remove our (generally) hardwired need for resources, reproduction, shelter, safety etc. Ideologies are normally just created after the fact as power funneling machines.
Read Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna and you'll find your answers. It goes much, much deeper than you think and communicate in this video. In your meditations you went there, but enlightenment is when there comes here. The ultimate truth of the universe, all philosophies, all spirituality, all thoughts and emotions... they're all meaningless. That's what you're onto, I understood EXACTLY what you meant in this video. Only few people go there, read the book if you want to go further.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I've been coming to same the realizations lately, I especially connect with what Frank says when he speaks about having trouble integrating what he's uncovering. He described it pretty well.
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The scariest and most thrilling thing for me is to realize and know that Frank Yang is actually 100% right and the world is 100% wrong.
Its ironic this was the core of many of the biggest religions in the world. Was.
The best analogy ive have for what you are explaining is: imagine the universe is a lake, and you are a glass of water. If you put the glass on the lake the water is not part of the lake but simply on it. But when you truly relax and allow the water to be poured in the lake then it is part of it.
I like to imagine that the solid edges of the glass are made of ice which is caused by the duality of the mind, the rigidity of our thoughts. If you relax the mind and body, the heat of the universe is allowed to to melt the glass and free the self.
Noice
i think the simulator has just become self aware
Uh oh, someone hit the wrong button somewhere
I watched this video while I washed dishes.
Did you reach domestic enlightenment?
User that was funny as shit!
I know this feeling, if you've experienced it before then Frank's ramblings will actually make some sense but as he says it's extremely difficult to describe. I've experienced it twice before from what I can remember and both times were from moments of intense concentration. The exact moment of an epiphany but if you can imagine the "aha!" moment of a realisation to be extremely intense, that's how I experienced the first step. It's very interesting how Frank put a lot of fractal visuals because that's exactly what I was studying both times when it happened: the more you look into fractals the more you realise that literally everything is a fractal even if it doesn't appear to be at first.
The very realisation of this concept (to be undeniably true in my mind but whose to say if the universe actually is built this way) sparked that epiphany feeling really intensely, once that happened then the second stage of the feeling set in.
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Feeling of "oneness" that many meditation masters describe.
The feeling is surreal, I've been told that certain drugs can trigger the feeling such as LSD but basically put, you feel as though everything is the way it is and that's okay, everything has its place in the universe and that's okay. A person may have a really angry personality but that's okay too, everything is the way it is and it's as although everything seems perfect exactly how it is and everything makes sense.
You feel a part of something really big, instead of feeling like your own person you feel like everything around you, like an observer rather than a human. Frank was saying it feels as though nothing matters at all, a basketballer would hit another one in the face and it's like they are playing. If you could imagine a cell in a body interacting with another one it's virtually significant
+DavidKFZ The other thing that's also interesting is the observer phenomenon, another way you know you're feeling this state is when you look at any sensation and they are all the same. Having sex is the same as getting a nail driven through your hand: your senses are being triggered. The body feels like a vessel that can experience a small number of sensations but in a number of ways, but at the end of it all the feelings are so small and insignificant they don't matter, they are there to be experienced but don't mean anything.
It all makes the universe seem so large and you feel so small, you get to use your senses to explore an extremely small portion of the universe where everything has its place and everything is happening as it should.
It really does seem that way, you don't need drugs to achieve the feeling but you need to be concentrating on some really deep stuff. Let me know if you've felt this before too and if so, what lead you to feel it?
+DavidKFZ It is like a state of derealization. Everything is their and it feels like you know it. But you feel like you are just a part of this all. Really hard to describe. It becomes boring and your going to ask yourself if everything is real.
interesting stuff.
+Break the Chain Yes, drugs can definitely trigger the chemical change in the brain to achieve this effect, I'm not an expert on any drugs but the fact that someone can feel the effect without any substance being ingested is amazing.
1st time I was reading a paper on the net about how a specific theory works for the universe, the theory stated that "God" is the universe and wants to learn more about itself, conscious beings are ways it uses senses to attempt to learn more. The piece had very complex writing and difficult words but I was managing to get through it at a slower pace. At one stage I could start to feel my prefrontal cortex (Willpower muscle in brain) start to burn but I persisted reading, it actually felt hot. After a bit more reading (I was absolutely still the whole time) I started to feel less burn but then my vision felt a bit weird and my body went half numb in a relaxed way. About a minute later I sat back and had the feeling described in earlier posts.
all i got from this video was "theres no need to be mad"
yeah. no offense but all these psuedo geniuses are verbose
.. lol
Justin Ejimah still entertaining. I watch these old videos nearly every day.
Always love your videos, Frank.
What you had is satori, a glimpse of enlightenment. You will have more and more satori experiences until one day it will totally switch and you cant lose it anymore. From my own experience, even after you have permanently switched to non-dual state, the experience will still get deepen. It will be like apple upgrading iOS software every few months. It can happen differently for you though. At one point you will be able to be conscious even during a deep sleep.
please tell me more about your experiences, how did you come to a permanent state ?
+Frank Yang It a long journey that involves zen retreats, usage of psychedelics including ayahuasca, kundalini awakening and receiving shaktipat from a guru...If you need more details i can write you an email or facebook message you about it . I also want to tell you that each person's journey is unique in its own way and theres no such thing as the best way. That intelligence behind everything you talked about in this video already knows exactly what experience you need in order to wake up from this dream called life. Nothing is ever wasted or trivial like all your arts, the bodybuilding, books you have read, childhood experiences, all the people you've met in your life... They all have a role in this. After that it will be like lucid dreaming all the time, the only difference from the normal dreaming is that there will be no "I " in there. The only thing left thats permanent is awareness of the impermanence of everything if that makes sense lol. I wish you all the best and may you attain it soon
Its insane how differently you looked after enlightenment and your glow.
Even the way you articulate things went over 9000.
So beautiful, thank you for your videos Frank.
"It's really something that can't be shown....each and every one of us have access to this infinite intelligence...nobody is better or worse than another person..."
It's weird how you always seem to eventually share my inner thoughts, immature thoughts that haven't been fully developed to the point that I can properly explain it to somebody, through video. One of the main reasons I subscribed to your channel years ago was because I somehow saw we share the same mentality. I'm sure some people in this comment section is the same as well. Keep living Fr0nk.
You're about to LEAVE HUMANITY BEHIND
You're so close to the way, the truth and the life, bro. The one who changed my life forever, it's definitely Jesus Christ. And no, I'm not here to preach or anything, just wanted to share, that's all. I had a beautiful and spiritual encounter with Him. More than once. And I've never been the same since. 4 years since the Holy Spirit came upon me. It's the best thing that has ever happened to me. But okay, I'm done now. You will be in my prayers, Frank! God bless you!
Amen brother!
+adabo2 hey, I just wanted to share my experience. That's all. Not here to argue or anything. :) Much love! ✊
+C.D. not at all. I am the church. What people call "church", is just a building where believers go to fellowship. But I understand that I AM THE CHURCH. And I love to go out to pray for people and share the good news. Face to face is where it's at. I don't do religion, I'm all about relationship. Religion leads to hypocrisy, and devilish ways, relationship leads to righteousness and a Spirit led life. Anyways. If the church ever hurt you or did you dirty in any way, I'm truly sorry for that. I know there's many Christians that don't apply the fruit of the Spirit to their lives, therefore they don't represent the way they should. I'm quite aware of that, so I definitely apologize for that. I'm trying to clean up anyone's mess, one day at a time, one person at a time. By the grace of God. Much love, man.
did Jesus touch you
Is it the same Jesus that promised eternal hellfire for non believers? Or Jesus the ascended master
Frank, I can relate to some of this. The first and only time where I felt a moment of epiphany (with lasting impacts) was 10 years ago, for a philosophy class in high school. I was researching the basic concepts of perception vs Truth. It was a very deep concept for me, and after a few hours of reading and thinking it suddenly clicked. I clearly recall the disorientation I felt, as if I had suddenly realised that Everything was a great lie.
That epiphany was a turning point for me in how I react to and interpret many situations; that nothing was real, yet paradoxically, everything was real. As the years passed, I believe I have simply become more and more in control of judgement and assumption. Everything seemed to become a game.
But do I still want to play it? To this day, I still don't know.
In emotional situations, I tell myself the words "judgement defeats us." This was a quote from Apocalypse Now. It helps me to detach from the situation and realise, how foolish we all are.
I love you and this comment
Please never stop uploading Frank, you are amazing.
Frank gradually getting unspooked.
This is your best video, and i have been subscribed for 3 years.
I often think we spend massive amounts of time searching for answers to questions that don't have any answers.
People give things meaning where there isn't necessarily any meaning.
Religion, philosophy, all of it is just treading water seeking answers to things that might not even have an answer.
I think as humans we really want this life, and our experiences to have some type of higher purpose, to mean something more than just "existing" and the fact we can be so observant of ourselves, thoughts and behaviours doesn't help that. It's as if we go around in circles, like an intelligence that's obsessed with figuring stuff out, creating things, improving ourselves in every single way, but actually can't find any real answers to any of the stuff that bothers us.
So we settle for what makes "sense" to us.
I don't know if any of this makes any sense. I find it hard to write down what I actually want to say but I do feel that we have always been searching for answers to the "meaning" of just existing, and when you look back at our history. We aren't any closer to answering any of these things. Everything we experience is subjective to the individual.
If you spend large amounts of time meditating it seems like interesting breakthroughs can happen, like taking dmt. Maybe there is a higher meaning to life. But that also doesn't mean that when your brain stops firing you continue to exist in some form either.
But it seems a lot of people have trouble grasping the fact that might be the case.
This is the most positive video i've seen in my life.
Frank, What camera do you use? Sometimes it looks like a gopro with the slow mo shots and wide angle lens, but others, the focus pulls which Idk, do go pros even have auto focus?? Do you use a mix of both? would love to know! :]
WOW. So grateful to have come across your channel 🌹
very powerful video frank. junior year of highschool i started meditating for long hours like you said (10+hours) and listening to alan watts ect. Ever since then, since i stopped, i have felt like my life has fallen apart and i have noticed the more i have become obsessed with music and art. Those sounds at 4:56 really triggered me bac into that state of mind thanks frank i know what to do know.
Will Smith is a good example. look at all his movies. think about how much human hours have gone in to make movies like I Am Legend, Pursuit of Happyness. all the editing, the shooting, the acting, the marketing. And in all of them, its he is the hero. its like his superconscious mind magnetizes those around him to create his art. I think Frank is beginning to enter his sublime self
I'll be honest i havent watched a video of franks for a long time and lately have been feeling the exact same way in regards to escaping the bubble this is crazy.... happy to hear frank talking about this
Life is playful and a game, thank you for reminding us Frank Yang.
I really like your videos frank, I watched this a few times trying to understand everything and I feel like I come closer to the answer to all my questions every minute I watch of you, but I feel like I trying to hard to find those answers so I should just go with the flow of the universe.
frank you have to find yourself, find what you want, do what you want, continue until you find the void after you've spent yourself away, but don't stop changing
I love your work frank, i can connect very well with these deep talk videos, as they are very similar to my current thoughts. its funny that youre worried wheather your intention came through or not. your intention to show me that i'm in charge over my reality, and that this power is already within everyone of us definitely got through. actually i had these thoughts before, but i was insecure about them, cause i seemed to be the only one who got that idea, before i discovered your channel. and i also started reading Kant. from all the hundreds of books ive read, this is some real shit. kinda feel like most new modern literature and youtube content is just scratching the surface for quick target group satisfaction, instead of going deep and creating synthetic knowledge, that is may less attractive, but does more good in the long term.
There is duality. On the absolute level, nothing does matter, everything is the same and equal. But in the way we function, nature functions (competition exists), you are not good enough, you need to get better, you need to fight. We function as individuals, we peerceive and build hiearchies. This is recognizable in nature. In global, complex view, everything is meaningless, emotions are nothing, etc, but we still live "in our brains, behind our eyes, feeling the pain, etc.". Its probably not good idea to try completely eliminate this pain and ilussion of self. Im trying to be cappable of peacefuly accepting the strugle that living existence is. Always return from the absolute realm to your "illusion self", because as before you were born and after you die, the illusion will be gone anyway.
You truly are a great inspiration to me. Thank you for sharing your work.
Teal swan, Stuart Wilde and Louis Hayes are some great spiritual teachers that genuinely changed the way I see life. You learn to hold a space for multiple perspectives.
This video made me feel better about life. Thx frank👍
Thanks for sharing your insights, as always.
eckhart tolle calls this feeling the unmanifested, interesting to hear your experience on this, thats cool
The vacuum that sits inside each of us you are talking about, at later stages it will expand outside of the body and you will perceive emptiness not only inside but in everything around as well. There will be no longer inside or outside, it will all become One.
Very interesting video frankie boi. Thanks for uploading.
i think i understand what you're talking about and even if i don't it still made me consider some thoughts in a different light. Are you speaking of what we consider serenity and how life is enjoyable but from a different perspective? to look at the stimulus itself and question why it is so and even how? to look for it in everything and yet nothing, to exist both with and without conscious thought.
omg, yes frank. I've felt this way too. Its like an out of body experience or better worded as, out of existence experience. It's a state of out of existence in a way. I realized the same thing, that "life" or whatever human consciousness is, is insignificant in the grand scheme of things (ie in the universe, the galaxy, and the galaxies). You can take it any way you like. It is the truth though. This can be taken as a relief. Relief, knowing that we are just pieces of a vast "space" we do not even know experience or even can be in. For example, what is "time"? Isn't just a human construct? So in the grand scheme, isn't our perception just insignificantly different from the vastness or emptiness we have not been in? isn't "experience" just a human condition? So in general, Like you said, and similar to a quote I heard, "A centipede cannot walk when it thinks about its legs," can apply here.
This state really opens your "mind", or what others say is your third eye, open to non-existence or the "emptiness" that you, others, and I have a difficult time describing.
The more you understand art, the more you become art
What the fvck happened? You energy is completely different!
Makes no sense to most people but in his logic it makes perfect sense. If you break it down and see past the words hes saying, the ideas his words represent are really profound. Its kind of hard to articulate the ideas hes trying to talk about.
I just got in to the deeper but the void is all.
Commenting before the end of the video crew
This video is really great, I was mindfucked visually and by your words. This shit is very interesting Fronk. I know what you mean by watching something and just observing all the small details and being amazed by the dynamics of it all. Its like a meditative state. Meditation has helped me bring more of that in my life however fleeting it is for me right now (I haven't been meditating regularly lately). Also this video made me laugh man. Now I want to meditate more, thanks man.
I get what you're saying. I've had experiences of non-duality and Truth, so I feel ya.. It's tough though
If you forget the date you filmed your clips on, you can go to the file properties and find the date and time there.
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very similar situation happened during my last cid trip, lets just say i do not longer have the feel to take cid ever again haha but everything frank is talking about makes sense, the things he is saying and talking about can be very difficult to talk about when not in person but for the most part he is right, love is hate hate is love we all need to get along before its too late
First video I watched before reading the comments
Is this all that important?
Are we all important enough to focus on this?
What if we didn't ask these questions and just lived good lives, not harming others?
Is that enough?
Is it enough for some, and not enough for others?
zilcher that's exactly what I'm saying. Why waste your one life finding the "truth"? What if there isn't a truth? Why look for something we weren't made to find?
IDon'tTryAnymore perhaps to look for a chance to evolve, to pay evolution itself a tribute for once.
Hi frank, I know this video has a bigger scope than this. but i can relate to what you were saying in the beginning that everything you were trying to create you were trying to communicate something and this thing cannot even be xplained. anyway i feel like the goal of art is to pursue the truth through aesthetics. and for that i want to recommend to you a book by a filmmaker Sculpting in Time by Andrei tarkovsky.
some quotes from the book
" But in an artistic creation the personality does not assert itself it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle."
"The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act."
Looks like you took the pill neo ;)
Frank is gonna zero sum in his quest for chim one of these days
Hey Frank,
I don't know if you will read this, but, would you say that your recent experiences have left you feeling like an extraterrestrial from another dimension, who has just ascended on to earth and is bewildered by even the most basic things. Who is baffled by every detail on this green earth. I have experienced this recently. It feels like a rebirth. I have seriously considered, not even considered but concluded, that this reality really is a simulation created by some other entities. Almost like computer program...
same conclusion happened to me lol
does anyone get frequent deja vu's? like it feels like its a type of lag in a simulation, that it glitches and shows you a future part of the game you're playing
+Break the Chain I don't any. But Frank is definitely one of those people who has the potential to transcend.
guys check out "akashic records"
i have experienced this twice after waking up in the Middle of the night, mindblowing experience
one of your best vids, thanks
As Terence McKenna quotes the self-dribbling jeweled basketball machine elves as saying: don't give in to astonishment.
Dude you showed it really, really well. You show yourself.
Read some books of ancient Zen masters, like Joshu, Huang Bo, etc.
The void is your mind, your mind is infinite and empty. There is nothing else. It's what you are.
I'm not there, but read Huang Bo, Joshu, Linji, Wumen, ancient Zen masters.
Wow. This is a simulation. How crazy I've had the same experience
Frank Yang talks the real deal!
Frank, it sounds like you entered fifth jhana through meditation. Check it out and read up on it if you are interested. Leigh Brasington has a talk on TH-cam about the jhanas.
everythings okay, thats it.....
words are just words, its just another form of communicative intelligence some people have, combining them and making people believe that what they are hearing is something new and different, but deep inside, its something they already knew.
I didn't understand what message he was trying to get across. Due to his abnormal prose.
But what I assume he was trying to explain is the fact that everything in life is a stimulus and nothing more. And that we are all here just experiencing the world together, and that we are all as indulgent and as fragile as each other. Regardless of class or background.
So basically. he realised that things he enjoys are a chemical reaction in his brain. And that means the things we think are important and special, really aren't. Maybe that's what he discovered. Who knows.
As for when he said that there is a stillness in everything, I disagree with that. Calmness, yes, but not stillness.
Nature and the world is always moving, the trees sway and water flows. Life begins and flows away slowly. Even mountains crumble and shrink, wind and water shifts the rock and soil.
I don't think meditation is about stillness, it's about becoming almost fluid like. To calm yourself and flow with your surroundings, much like in yoga. When you meditate with an egotistic goal, or sit there thinking about how much attention you are getting, or focus on staying still and holding the perfect meditation pose, don't be surprised that it doesn't work.
To be human is to be solid, which is why the ebb and flow of life breaks us apart so relentlessly. but if you learn to move with life's ebb and flow and become sympathetic with your body and surroundings, then you will find that life's movements don't take so harsh a toll on you.
Resistance is mankind's biggest enemy and ally.
i needed to hear this today thanks
Happiness is faked while sadness prevails.
Seems like a lot of these scientists of the mind are only talking about surface level stuff.
I really liked this video frank.
Did these experiences come about purely through long periods of extended mediation?
I would like to start meditating for my anxiety, stress, general sadness etc.
But I just never get around to it and it seems so simple to start.
I did acid last night for one of the first times so this was pretty clutch. Enjoy playing the game.
Do you think I need to experience a state of pure aesthetics and devotion to art before I can start tackling consciousness at its pure form? I just started to explore the trippy and lifting aspect of life, and I was thinking that probably might be the first step on a journey you started a really long time ago.
Super cool video. But i have a couple questions....😮😂
Why do people just take pictures discreetly and then leave, if I was there I'd at least start a conversation, then ask for a permission to take pictures. People don't value that this days huh
I value two way communication
Frank was busy. It would be rude to interrupt his interaction with the Dong.
Can someone elaborate on how he looked at things through an artistic and athletic vibe? I think i understand what hes saying by looking at things through those perspectives. While he was looking at things through an athletic vibe it was because thats what he identified himself as, a bodybuilder.
really great vid fronk
try thinking of where the core of things come from, instead of how things evolve. Existence is "one" or "whole", we will never leave existence, our own memories and data which is our minds and "our self" might disappear. but we was always a part of "a whole". whatever we do it will always have the same ground and core which is the universe and the universe is dancing, we are dancing with it. we can do whatever we want. when two things som this universe meets, differens sides and dances of the universe is shown between those two things, it is simply chemistry. Dont be afraid that there is no meaning with what you do, because the universe and existence has been doing things sens the very first second, whatever you are doing is a part of the dance :)
Frank, can you recommend any books about meditation? Or anything to help a beginner?
You need to do a meditating for beginners series
he did a video called how to meditate, it's useful enough
Best video yet
*smokes DMT* I got the answers to everything in life and will never ever forget and will share this ground breaking knowledge with everyone once my trip ends *15 minutes later* oh it can’t be translated into words. Basically how every DMT trip goes for me 😂
When you recognize a True Living Master, he may well be consuming Popeyes® and fresh milk from a Corelle® Livingware™ Old Town Blue 28-oz Bowl.
Frank, what do you do after you're out of that circle? I've been going through the same thought process of what's superficial and not, but even then I also find it meaningless because after I figure out that I don't want to fit within the circle I don't know what to do.
from what I heard, people who are outside the circle can freely return to the matrix and pick a human role and play it to the fullest degree, like becoming a master pick up artist or a janitor.
Richard Feynman on fools: “- and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools - guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus - THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!”
Frank Yang is a pompous fool.
I've been having the exact same thoughts Frank, is this what is called synchronicity?
Beautiful
Where can I find hours of rants like this? Like to listen while I work.
Jed McKenna, U.G. Krishnamurti (my favorite, he's hilarious), Stephen Jourdain, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Chögyam Trungpa, Adyashanti, Alan Watts, Vernon Howard (shout out to R.S.), Robert Anton Wilson, idfk. There're so many audiobooks and podcasts out there, I'm sure you'll find something.
Eckhart Tolle, Buddhist Geeks (this is a podcast, but it's not very flowy and artistic), Franklin Merrell-Wolff (he's supposed to be very good), Gary Weber, Richard Rose, Douglas Harding, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aleister Crowley, G.I. Gurdjieff, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Frank, are you familiar with Alan Watts? I love the things you are saying. It is very difficult to describe like you said. I feel it is hard to show people these things, at least in a literal term. People will understand it through osmosis through you just being you in your vids.
this is some deep stuff!
man, i just want to sit down with you over a landscape view and just talk. I'm literally so like you philosophically. Just curious do you know of alan watts? Just youtube his lectures.
be at peace frank.
and dont do anything rash.
Fried chicken shows up quite often in your videos.
Have you read Kierkegaard? You have similar ideas to him.
There's no need to get mad!
Frank you should listen to a guy named Alan Watts (TH-cam him). He talks about such mystical experiences.
I think there is a big chance that Frank is familiar with the works of Alan Watts. Great suggestion tho :)
I appreciate you
i was gona get mad at this video but i finished it ahahahaha.... great video have you read any of osho books think it would help.
Hey Frank, have you checked out Joseph Campbell yet?
What's on the bench
You would meditate 10+ hours?
good video. Have you considered Ayahuasca?
I know what you're talking about. However, left unchecked, our idea that that there is no real distinction between things is as meaningless as it causes everything to become. True-If you deconstruct everything to its constituents then the universe really is one thing. The greatest reasoning and the most base primal urges do occur in the same arena, but so what? Mindfulness does reveal this basic reality and truth of everything/nothing.It's interesting, it's something many people will never get to feel and experience even if they understand.I don't think thats the be all and end all though. I think it is the true meta context in which everything else falls under and into.
Without even bothering to get into the likelihood that a strong number of people would become in touch with "The Divine"I don't think ego death or mindfulness will actually cause many people to act significantly differently or is any kind of solution to the worlds problems. It's a great way to not be consumed by them though. Relinquishing opinion and belief doesn't remove our (generally) hardwired need for resources, reproduction, shelter, safety etc. Ideologies are normally just created after the fact as power funneling machines.
You should write a novel Frank
check out the 'iceman' documentary on vice, fronk
Read Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna and you'll find your answers. It goes much, much deeper than you think and communicate in this video. In your meditations you went there, but enlightenment is when there comes here. The ultimate truth of the universe, all philosophies, all spirituality, all thoughts and emotions... they're all meaningless. That's what you're onto, I understood EXACTLY what you meant in this video. Only few people go there, read the book if you want to go further.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I've been coming to same the realizations lately, I especially connect with what Frank says when he speaks about having trouble integrating what he's uncovering. He described it pretty well.
bruh i feel you
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