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This blog is about spiritual awakening, maps and stages, the blinding effects of our strong momentum/conditioning (karmic propensities), view, realization, experience, etc. If you're new here, I recommend going through the 'Must Reads' articles (see sidebar). For discussions you are welcome to join the Awakening to Reality Facebook group
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- 1) 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
- (简体中文)“真如”/PasserBy “过路人”开悟的七个阶段
- (繁體中文)“真如”/PasserBy “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
- (繁體) 關于無我（No-Self）、空性、摩訶（Maha）與平常，以及自然圓滿
- 3) Buddha Nature is NOT "I Am" — available in 22 languages
- 4) Realization and Experience and Non-Dual Experience from Different Perspectives — available in 23 languages
- 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
- 当声音自己听自己：体证无我的旅程
- 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
- 辨析 I AM、一心、无心与无我
- 12) No Awareness Does Not Mean Non-Existence of Awareness
- “无觉”并不意味着否定觉知或明性
- 13) A Summary of Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea
- 14A) Experience, Realization, View, Practice, and Fruition (Revised)
- 体验/觉受、证悟、知见、修行与果位
- 體驗/覺受、證悟、見地、修行與果位
- 14B) Experience, Realization, View, Practice and Fruition
- 15) Book Recommendations 2019 and Practice Advice
- 16) Don't Bombard with our conversations and Don't Stereotype
- 17) Compilation of Post-Anatta Advice
- 18) Finding An Awakened Spiritual Teacher and Mentor
- 19) My Commentary on Bahiya Sutta (written shortly by Soh in October 2010 after his Anatman/No-Self breakthrough)
- 20) 我对《婆希耶经》的评论
- 21) Self and phenomena as a learnt, reified concept
- 22) Working for Sentient Beings
- 23) Beyond "Experience": A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Enquiry and the I AM Realization
- 超越“体验”：自我参究/话头与“我是”证悟的详尽指南
- 24) Self Enquiry, Neti Neti and the Process of Elimination
- 25) Genuine Realisation is Rare, Most Claimants are Delusional
- 26) 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)
- 27) Yuan Yin Lao Ren: Teachings on Mind, Practice, and Liberation (2026 Integrated Edition)
- 28) The Unfindable Fullness: How a Drum, a Rainbow, and a Mirage Unlock the Heart Sūtra
- 29) The Causal Power of the Unreal
- 30) Dōgen Total Exertion — Totality Beyond Whole and Parts
- 31) Dependent Arising = Spontaneous Presence: Unpacking a Non-Dual View
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- Great Resource of Buddha's Teachings
- Measureless Mind PDF and SoundCloud Audios
- Yuan Yin Lao Ren: Teachings on Mind, Practice, and Liberation (2026 Integrated Edition)
- The Meaning of Stream Entry
- At What Point Does One Attain Liberation?
- 何时才算证得解脱？
- Buddhahood: The End of All Emotional/Mental Afflictions and Knowledge Obscurations
- 《大圓滿的見與基》——大圓滿導師阿闍梨馬爾康·史密斯
- 《大圆满的见与基》——大圆满导师阿阇梨马尔康·史密斯
- Dzogchen View / Basis by Dzogchen Teacher Acarya Malcolm Smith
- Marshland Flowers - Overview of Buddhist Teachings in All Three Traditions
- Marshland Flowers - Overview of Buddhist Teachings in All Three Traditions （PDF）
- Simply Always Awake — YouTube Pointers by Angelo DiLullo
- Acarya Malcolm Dharmawheel Posts + Astus, Krodha (Kyle Dixon), Geoff (Jnana), Meido Moore
- A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon (Krodha)'s Wonderful Reddit Postings Part 1 to 12 (Audio Available in SoundCloud)
- The Universal Door of Miracles: Experiencing Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin’s Responsive Blessings
- The Heart of Zen by Master Huang Po: The Recorded Discourses of Chan Master Huangbo Xiyun – A Modern, Fresh Translation
- The High-Fidelity Transmission of Bodhidharma: A New Translation
- Introduction to Vidyā: Self-Liberation through Naked Seeing
- 《明的引介：由无遮直见而自行解脱》
Stickied Posts
- A Practitioner's Reflection on the Kōmyōzō Zanmai (Treasury of Light)
- Tara and "Manifestation"
- The Children Who Should Not Know: A Case for Rebirth
- Prioritizing Professional Mental Health Care: Understanding When to Seek Help Before Exploring Spirituality
- ATR AI Prompt Suite to Translate AtR Blog Articles
- 用于翻译 AtR 博客文章的 ATR AI 提示词套件
- Thusness “真如”/PasserBy “过路人”开悟的七个阶段 - Chinese Translation of Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment
- 论无我，空性，摩诃与平凡，和自然圆满 - Chinese Translation of On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection
- 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)
- 悟入实相 (AtR Chinese)
- Marshland Flowers
- Revealing Nagarjuna Series: All 12 Parts and John Dunne's Free Online Resources
- The Concept of Sunyata (Emptiness) in Mahayana Sutras
- The Intertwined Path: Dependent Origination and Emptiness in Buddhadharma – A Unified Perspective
- Emptiness as Dependent Arising and Causal Efficacy: Distinguishing Water-Moon from Rabbit-Horn
- The Unfindable Fullness: How a Drum, a Rainbow, and a Mirage Unlock the Heart Sūtra
- Mortality, Pure Land and Parinirvana: Does the Mind Ever End?
- Mind, Matter, and the Middle Way: Deconstructing Reality with Nāgārjuna
- Emptiness Is Not Relational Ontology: Relations Without Relata
- Dialogue on Rongzom, Mere Appearance, Causal Efficacy, and Conventional Truth
- Thusness's Vipassana
Recommended Links
- ZANGTHAL: Ācārya Malcolm Smith's Site
- Hong Wen Liang's Zen Teachings (Chinese)
- Way of Bodhi
- Measureless Mind
- 84000 - Buddha's Teachings
- Byoma Kusuma Buddhadharma Sangha
- James Corrigan's New Site
- James Corrigan's Articles (Old Link)
- Integrated Daniel
- Empty Sky Vipassana Sangha
- Vimalakirti Buddhist Center
- Dream Datum: Self discovery paths related articles
- Sim Pern Chong's Website Archive
- Backup of Awakening to Reality Blog
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