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- 1) John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment — available in 24 languages
- 2) On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection — available in 23 languages
- Introducing John Tan’s New Website
- (简体中文) John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy（真如/过路人）开悟的七个阶段
- (繁體中文) John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy（真如/過路人）開悟的七個階段
- 关于无我（No-Self）、空性、摩诃（Maha）与平常，以及自然圆满
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- 5) YouTube Videos and Audios by John Tan: Union of Dependent Arising and Emptiness
- 6) Different Degrees of No-Self: Non-Doership, Non-dual, Anatta, Total Exertion and Dealing with Pitfalls — available in 11 languages
- 7A) The Disease of Non-Conceptuality
- 7B) Viewless View Is Not ‘Who Really Knows?’
- 8) When Sound Hears Itself: A Journey to Realizing Anatta
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- 9) John Tan on Emptiness, Dependent Arising, Right View, and Non-Meditation
- 10) A Practitioner's Reflection on the Kōmyōzō Zanmai (Treasury of Light)
- 11) Differentiating I AM, One Mind, No Mind and Anatta
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- 13) A Summary of Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea
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- 14B) Experience, Realization, View, Practice and Fruition
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- 16) Don't Bombard with our conversations and Don't Stereotype
- 17) Compilation of Post-Anatta Advice
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- 19) My Commentary on Bahiya Sutta (written shortly by Soh in October 2010 after his Anatman/No-Self breakthrough)
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- 23) Self Enquiry, Neti Neti and the Process of Elimination
- 24) Genuine Realisation is Rare, Most Claimants are Delusional
- 25) Soh 的觉悟之路：2010~2013年的心性体悟录 / Soh's Chinese Articles on Experiential Realizations from 2010 to 2013 (English Translations Also Available)
- 26) Yuan Yin Lao Ren: Teachings on Mind, Practice, and Liberation (2026 Integrated Edition)
- 27) The Unfindable Fullness: How a Drum, a Rainbow, and a Mirage Unlock the Heart Sūtra
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after i read the conversations and some others, experienced a clarity and brightness for the whole night, and even vaguely during sleep (couldn't sleep deeply) and next morning but did not last anything beyond. I think u will call it luminosity or awareness. But there is still duality.