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 


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


1 Response
  1. MarkA Says:

    Thank you so much to all who were involved in this work. I only read the first one so far and looking forward to reading the second book after it is completed.
    My special appreciation and gratitude to Soh and John for sharing profound dhamma for so long with the world.
    Most of the paragraphs in the PDF is worth underlining and contemplating. While John provides deep dhamma points, Soh brings those out by asking great questions and complimenting his own realizations.

    This is what I see as unique about this writing:

    1) covers broadly both non-dual and buddha's teaching. Even with Buddha's teaching you are not limiting yourself to one branch as you share great pointers from theravada, zen, mahamudra etc.

    2) you have succeeded in explaining deep dhamma without using any Pali or Sanskrit words!

    3) Soh takes great care to share non-dual, I am, one mind, no-mind, awareness, consciousness etc etc using great examples that covers many angles - a feature that I haven't seen in any other great dhamma books.

    4) Most writing is a result of their own realization - a rare point in most modern dhamma books and written in practical terms.

    5) I also appreciate John's persistence to keep things simple. Most get bogged-down on dogmas and complicated dhamma points that result in stagnation and/or never ending discussions or arguments.

    6) though I wish to highlight so many paragraphs, may I finish with only one:
    "Intuit the vipassana and the samatha. Intuit the total exertion and realization. The essence of message must be raw and uncontaminated by words. It cannot be secondhand." -by John Tan, 2019.
    May I add that the most important word here is 'intuit (intuition)'. I hope John agrees.