 If you guys have heard Frank talk about the contemplative fitness AI or Bentino and his global enlightenment retreat uses the analogy of raindrops on windshield as you're in the car is that you kind of become sensation proof. So rather than having the sensation trigger a conditioning of separate self rather it's that windshield wiper or this contemplative fitness AI that's constantly running where their gap between a sensation coming and you recognizing how empty the sensation is is immediate it's immediate you recognize that it's all coming empty right away so there's no when you get to the really high levels that there's no even possibility even anymore for it to come and create a elevation of a conditioned contracted identity you what you ultimately that's this what we're talking about it getting to sensation proofing yourself would you like to also unpack this a bit for us Frank yeah so I'm just gonna read a post that I wrote because after I write something down I don't really think writing more so if I yes if I summarize it I'll be all over the place is it on your Instagram can I pull it up it's in my I posted on my story but I didn't make a post out of this I don't think you can see right now but I think it's in one of my highlights but I'll just read it yes I think the most direct and clearest way to put all those different stages of development in labels that we've been talking about under context is the direct realization the nature of sensations now think of sensations as the atoms of your subjective experience both inside and outside what a meditator or a contemplator does is quote-unquote zooming into deconstruct and dissecting and dissolving and shred your reality into sensations at the microscopic level all sensations are aware of themselves exactly where they are all sensations are devoid of both self with a small s and self with a capital s and spontaneously and co-dependently arising all sensations are in equal footing so no sensation cause or own another cluster of sensations different vibratory velocity of sensations gives rise to the difference between clinical air liquid and solid forms and all sensations self-liberate so sensations could be anything from body sensations to emotions to side sound emotions thoughts basically your entire field of experience is made up of sensations so all sensations are non-dual as in sensations in and of themselves can't tell the difference between God poop awareness consciousness emptiness eternity love intentions matter my being sober or being psychedelic or being drunk time space etc etc and since there is only clinical one substance there is no difference between the foreground and the background this is where we talk about deconstructing all the different stages and deconstructing even the background between the context and the content right because all sensations are homogenous therefore phenomenon do not arise and pass into some source that is what clinical real and permanent now the labeling of these sensations and the labeling of these phenomenons into concepts as you guessed it just more sensations you start to see that even concepts are sensations even labels are sensations no different from the things that they're labeling so you don't get attached even concepts so what's the difference between the awakened state in the egoic state now this is very important in the former the knots of perception is forever untied in the awakened state because the nature of sensations is penetrated permanently and experientially now all sensations in your entire field of experience lights up and are where themselves without a delay between the subject and an object between the perceiver and the perceived observer and observe the witness and the witnessing and this is your moment to moment experience of the clinical Godhead of infinity of eternal awareness because when sensations are experienced without a doer controller seer here thinker all 360 degrees panoramic are known and comprehended as itself without the delay between this or that that's reality feels omniscient in the egoic state certain cluster of sensations arise in the center of experience usually inside the head being behind the eyes and in place in some place inside the body that's hijacking other clusters of sensations to clinical take credit for other clusters of sensations in the field of experience and this is all due to conditioning that's what we talk about observer being trapped in an observer because it's taking credit for reality when this happens there's a contraction of energy when awareness or the ego is trying to you know hijack other field of sensations to be my there's a contraction of energy and that's identification that's the feeling of menace that's where the source of separation comes from that's it so when you zoom experiences down to the atomic level with max effort contraction like the paschina where you can no longer divide it this singularity ultimate loops back to the other side like a strange loop it becomes infinitely expensive that's the difference between you know the contraction method of the passionate versus the do-nothing meditation we simply just relax and let infinite consciousness return to its most natural state so all those practices merges one expansion and contraction this is why the practice starts out as dissecting atoms but at the end you end up repartializing the whole universe the very small is identical to the very large like the merging of quantum mechanics and cosmology love and death at the subjective level the parts is the whole and vice versa the atom is the universe now you can get to the same point either by contraction or expansion we talked about that and also you can you know do some psychedelic trips have glimpses of this or do the contraction expansion method you know while you are under the influence of psychedelics but you know I mean in my own path all my insights and in realizations came naturally I mean I've experienced it with psychedelics in my 20s and have viewed the empty trips but the reason why I advocate being doing it naturally is because I'm just biased because I give my natty my older credit anyway so I think that's pretty much it that was so good there's another one last part yeah so when you take to the end point contraction and expansion just lose meaning and this is when absolute infinity and absolute nothingness emerge simultaneously and this goes back to what I was saying about how the natural state is like a permanent secession the unconsciousness of the Banna or the ninth drama but also infinite consciousness of the sichuan now if if you don't see clearly the nature of sensations at all levels as being empty and for the same time and not self one critical level is always going to see more or less real or solidified they're another level that's why you started to identify with awareness or consciousness or this or that God state because just stations has been seen through so one level is always going to be more solidified right so that's when again contraction occurs identification takes place that's cleaning and suffering so if you understand sensation at the experiential level that's it but there's some pitfalls to this as well so the contemplative fitness AI enables cessation at the experiential level yeah and understanding sensation at the experiential level and understanding cessation of experiential level enables the master resides in dow the natty state perpetual yes but but here's a but I was posting this on a forum and then there were some responses saying this is by deconstructing experiences only down to the microscopic level of sensations can be a little bit reductive it's almost like a scientist who only cares about atoms which I don't disagree with because I've seen a lot of people that are really into the view passion on path at all about sensations they see every experience they just reduce it down to a microscopic level of sensations and then they're more in the emptiness side of the equation than the love the affinity in the fullness side but my counter argument is for those people they happen taking sensations all the way that's why there's a problem if you take sensations all the way like I said it loops back to infinity maybe you're taking sensations down to the 99% level but 99% and 100% it's quantum once you the passion I sensation down to the microscopic level and 100% you dissolve everything boom it's absolutely infinity which is Sam is absolutely nothingness yeah so that's why you can get to the same endpoint by either doing the passion at the theravada path or by doing sort of the zochen kind of practices like do the subversion of the ocean because the ocean is full this form is the natural state but there's subversions of where you can do the awareness of awareness practice abiding in consciousness kind of practice like the later form of genres kind of practice if you do that long enough you also lose back to the microscopic level yeah but there are I see a lot of people that sort of lean towards one side of the of the duality of the equation which is really interesting some people are more energetic they're talk about love a lot you know and then they did the way their vibe is it's like you know more more in touch with the Christ consciousness and both the stuff of Pat and some people are more into the emptiness path if you take this all the way you merge the two you do you merge the two if you take this all the way this is this is what this is it take this all the way this contemplative fitness AI take it all the way to see sensations at this most subatomic level if you do that you will recognize what we're talking about which is being sensation proof and enabling you to reside in life itself to dissolve into life fucking itself endlessly yes one more point so what exactly is the natural state that the natural the natural state is just the fact that once you see through how all sensations are in equal footing once you're not attached one club once one cluster of sensation isn't hijacking other cluster of sensations all sensations appear exactly where they are as it is okay I have a question would this would this be like today I'll go through this example and then we'll go to the night okay would this be this I feel like this is gonna funnel perfectly into this example today the trash service came and the other tenants in the building had been emptying some food and drink and whatnot into the bin so it had created a very big stench over the week so I'm bringing the trash bin back after it's already been emptied by the garbage truck I'm bringing it back to the house and I'm realizing that I'm gonna be washing the bin out and as I'm washing the bin out I realize that washing the dirty garbage bin that smells rancid is the exact same made of the same empty in full infinitude as having sex or drinking tea or watching hummingbirds okay it's just how everything is just made up of how scientists will tell you everything's made of atoms you know your God experience is made of atoms so is your your poop right and sensation is just observing and realizing this at the experiential and the subjective level so you don't cling on to any particular state the ego state the ego state is just thinking that all one cluster of sensation is more real more solidified because you haven't seen through it that's contraction if the state of awareness becomes this new cluster of sensations that you get solidified then that's also just another degree it's another degree that's transcended from the ego state but if there's any preference over any cluster of sensations in your field of experience then you cannot enter a state of perfect equanimity that's it that's it when there is no identification with anything at all sensations can just appear by spontaneously simultaneously they all call dependent arising and they just appear as they are spontaneous dependent origination without a contracted conditioned separate self to have preferences right right and this preference could be ice cream or infinite consciousness yes and attachment to those preferences which then creates the craving aversion suffering yeah yeah that's pretty much what the natural state is okay beautiful so let's have you continue defining this for us like with here when in the dock so we kind of talked about this permanent cessation well conscious