Two persons realised anatta recently in AtR group:
Jayson MPaul shared:
Hello friends. I have been reading the blog for a few years now. It was suggested to me back in 2017 on the DhO, but I wasn't ready for it. Looking back I was definitely in stage 1 and I can trace my way through the first 4 stages. Something dawned on me 2 days ago and all things became unstuck. It became clear to me that every moment is just the thoughts, scenery, sounds. Nothing has ever been obscured! I was trying to find what I was missing but then it dawned that I was missing the fact that "searching for what was missing" is also just thought, sensation, manifestation. I still very subtly believed I was a non-dual awareness having a non-dual experience. I was trying to expand awareness to include more and more sensations. The size isn't the problem, it is realizing that there isn't anything more than just this and digging up subtler and subtler views that support this reification of awareness as a formless thing or ground of all experience. The last couple days have been effortlessly no-mind because all experiences are and always were no-mind. Finally most of the words on your blog speak to my direct experience. Thank you for the pointers!
Td Unmanifest shared:
Soh Wei Yu suggested I post something about my experience after our email conversation.
I emailed to thank him and John Tan for their writings, resources, and pointers that have helped me immensely in my progress.
Many
years ago I had a powerful, "accidental" I Am experience that compelled
me to search for what it was and how to make it permanent. Over the
years I have explored many teachers, practices, systems, and techniques.
Some more helpful than others.
I
actually encountered AtR several years ago via a DhO post, but honestly
aside from some of the I Am posts and discussions, none of it made much
sense to me. I now know that's due to the fact I was stuck in the I Am
phase, yet I thought I was much further along in my progress.
Earlier
this year, I rediscovered AtR, and began to read and study the Journal
and Guide, along with the associated posts. It all was much clearer to
me this time -- maybe I was more ripe for the teachings now
Realizing
I had been stuck in I Am, I followed the recommendations from the
guide. The contemplation of "where awareness ends and manifestation
begins" was especially helpful and propelled me into a nondual
realization. It was all very clear. The luminosity and clarity,
descriptions, and experience, all lined up with what was written. It was
extremely helpful to have my insights and experiences line up with
writings from someone who had been down the path. The insight/shift from
no-mind, to anatta was the most powerful, yet ordinary thing. As I said
in my email to Soh Wei Yu:
Though the earlier anatta experience shifted to a "no center, no background" emptiness of no-self, there was still a sense of a doer. This current shift/experience has left the doer and the "agencylessness" seems the default view.
Dogen's
Uji, and the insights of being-time have also been very powerful for
me, along with Tozen's "place where there is no cold or heat," which was
recommended by Soh Wei Yu. It's amazing how the suttas and teachers
make so much sense now and help clarify and stabilize realization and
insight.
Just
writing this short post, it's difficult to describe these insights. It
makes me appreciate how well the AtR team and other teachers have been
able to describe and present the material in a clear way.
...
TD Unmanifest:
I
got stuck in I AM for a long time due to clinging to dissociation and
the experience as Soh mentioned above. The focus was almost entirely on
the mind. When I shifted to other sense doors (hearing in particular)
something "popped" and the nondual experience moved from mind to body to
everything (not really the best description, but the only way I can
think to explain it). Contemplation on where the nondual Self ended and
manifestation begins shifted my experience again, and began the process
to a taste of no-mind then to annata.
The
issue wasn't the dissociation, it was the clinging to the experience
that was taken to be something more transcendental than it was. This
stuff is hard to explain, so hope that makes some sense