Hello! Welcome to the Awakening to Reality blog.
For all new to Awakening to Reality blog, I highly recommend reading the 'Must Read' articles on the right panel, such as
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"Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Exploring a series of experiential awakenings and insights into the nature of pristine consciousness.
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"On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Delving into the subject in more detail.
If you are interested in realizing and actualizing these insights, do read the following (free) e-books:
1) The Awakening to Reality Practice Guide by Nafis Rahman:
- Update: Portuguese translation now available here
2) The Awakening to Reality Guide - Web Abridged Version by Pablo Pintabona and Nafis Rahman:
Special thanks to these individuals for their efforts in making these compilations. I trust they will greatly benefit spiritual aspirants.
3) The Awakening to Reality Guide - Original Version compiled by Soh:
- Feedback: "I also want to say, actually the main ATR document >1200 pages helped me the most with insight. I am not sure how many have the patience to read it. I did it twice 😂 it was so helpful and these Mahamudra books supported ATR insights. Just thought to share.", "To be honest, the document is ok [in length], because it’s by insight level. Each insight is like 100 plus pages except anatta [was] exceptionally long [if] I remember lol. If someone read and contemplate at the same time it’s good because the same point will repeat again and again like in the nikayas [traditional Buddhist scriptures in the Pali canon] and insight should arise by the end of it imo.", "A 1000 plus pages ebook written by a serious practitioner Soh Wei Yu that took me a month to read each time and I am so grateful for it. It’s a huge undertaking and I have benefitted from it more that I can ever imagine. Please read patiently." - Yin Ling
I would like to thank Vu Huy Le and Cao Khanh for offering to help with the translation and ammendments of the Thusness Seven Stages of Enlightenment article in Vietnamese and On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection article in Vietnamese. Cao Khanh had a breakthrough into anatman realisation shortly after helping with the translation while reading the book that Yin Ling and I recommended: Cracking the Walnut: Understanding the Dialectics of Nagarjuna by Thich Nhat Hanh https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Walnut-Understanding-Dialectics-Nagarjuna-ebook/dp/B0BKKR3N74/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GY6R5K9F7ZCF
I recommend the book by Thich Nhat Hanh above, find it a good introduction to Nagarjuna's teaching and quite accessible for beginners.
Another good beginner book to Madhyamika is How to See Yourself As You Really Are by the Dalai Lama: https://www.amazon.com.au/How-See-Yourself-You-Really/dp/0743290453/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.W4OQeCmEgwQUBmvVBERo7uDFxQwdFP_x3jd9lDpOW70exXT17ayTLA9gyu4K4FRF.r9TVFi5KTJ62Ic8lnfSgyUvfx6IQqDT3t0yh1T14VAQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=how+to+see+yourself+as+you+really+are&qid=1710781621&s=books&sr=1-1
Part 4 is now out:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qr9yfLyl8qpcSNGECVxKGPKNzUBnDWK0g5rJLwLHugo/edit
John tan commented a decade ago that Kyle’s writings are very insightful, no less insightful than buddhist masters and advised me to take the pointers seriously
Note: When the text is in larger font and formatted as a question, it's from someone else. Kyle's responses are in smaller font. However, if there's a long citation from the master's text in large font, that's also Kyle's reply. So, Kyle is replying to people, with his responses typically in small font, except for long citations.
Also see:
Also See: Zen Master Ven Jinmyo Renge Sensei's Teachings
This guide provides instructions for downloading and listening to PDF files from the Dharmawheel Post Scraper on iPhone, Android, and Windows devices, utilizing text-to-speech features.
FOR IPHONE USERS
Download the PDF files:
Open Safari on your iPhone.
Go to the provided box.com link with the zip file of PDFs.
Tap the zip file to download, then tap again to extract the contents in the Files app.
Add PDF files to the Books app:
Open the Files app.
Find the folder with the extracted PDFs.
Select the PDFs, then tap "Share."
Choose "Copy to Books" to add them to your Books library.
Listen to PDFs using speech control:
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
Enable "Speak Screen."
Open a PDF in the Books app.
Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to start the speech control, which will read the PDF aloud.
FOR ANDROID USERS
Download the PDF files:
Use Chrome to visit the box.com link.
Tap the zip file to download, then extract its contents using a file manager app.
Add PDF files to a PDF reader app:
Open the file manager.
Locate and open a PDF file with your preferred PDF reader app.
Use text-to-speech features:
Download a text-to-speech app like Voice Aloud Reader or explore the latest options on Google Play Store.
Open the app, grant permissions, and choose a PDF file to listen to.
Alternatively, use the built-in text-to-speech feature in Accessibility settings, if available on your Android device.
FOR WINDOWS USERS
Listen to PDFs using Microsoft Edge or Adobe Acrobat Reader:
Open Microsoft Edge or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Open the PDF file.
In Edge, click the book with speaker icon; in Acrobat Reader, find the read-aloud option in the View menu.
Select "Read Aloud" and use the controls to manage playback.
Adjust reading speed and voice in "Voice options."
Stop the reading with the "X" button in the control bar.
Note: The "Read Aloud" feature is optimized for text-based PDFs and might not work as expected with PDFs composed of scanned images.
Soh Wei Yu+1
Also posted this recently in AtR Blog:
Seamlessness
John, Yin Ling and I enjoyed some writings I shared from Soto Zen teacher Anzan Hoshin Roshi, who is also Ven Jinmyo Osho's teacher.
“When the ten thousand dharmas move forward and practice and realize the self, this is awakening.”
Just for this moment: be right where you are, be just as you are. Release all of this pushing and pulling, this subject and object. Don’t fall into pushing against the pushing to get rid of it. Simply don’t push. Just sit. Release this pushing and pulling even slightly, for just one moment, and you will find that something begins to happen. The moment begins to exert itself as the sights and sounds, touch and taste, smells and thoughts and feelings.
You will discover that seeing has its own intelligence which presents itself as the green of leaves, the grey and blue and white of the clouds, the vast blue of the sky. Hearing has its own intelligence. All of the senses are open and the body is alive and knowing itself as the world.
Stand up and take a step. Another step. Each step exerts itself completely and then is gone. The moment exerts itself completely and then is gone, without a trace. There is no trace of that step in this step. There is just this step. There is just hearing, just seeing, just knowing. The ten thousand dharmas exert themselves completely and without effort.
You can grasp at whatever you want to, but there is nowhere that anything is separate from you so that you can take hold of it. Everything arises within the seamlessness of experience. If we enter yet further into this moment and enter directly into the exertion of these ten thousand dharmas, enter directly into how Awareness displays itself as what it is aware of, then something else begins to make itself clear. There aren’t “ten thousand” dharmas. There isn’t even “one” dharma either. There’s just this. This is the moment of dropping body and mind.
Well, where are these “bodies” and “minds” now? Someone, please, show me your body. How would you know about the body if not through the mind? The “body” is perceived by the mind. Is there an itch? A colour? A sound? You look at your hands, you move your thumb, wiggle your fingers. These are all just perceptions arising, dwelling and decaying. Your “body” is all in the mind. Now, where is this “mind”? There is this seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, thinking and feeling — but where is the “mind”? Someone, please, show me your mind.
When there is no separation, no distance to be closed between yourself and your experience, then where are you? The sound of a hammer, the sound of your breath. When there is just this there is no room for a body, no mind, no time, no space. There is just Open Luminosity which can sometimes look like a body, a mind. Everything is released, everything is dropped, everything rises up as it is, everything leaps into and out of itself. In this moment is the arising of all world-systems, in this moment is the vanishing of all world-systems.
Labels: Anatta, Zen, Zen Master Anzan Hoshin Roshi, Zen Master Dogen |
Soh Wei Yu+1
I want to compile all of Ven Jinmyo Osho's teachings from website's articles into a pdf file too. If someone wants to volunteer please do so, otherwise will have to wait until I find time