Also see: A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon's Wonderful Postings Part 2

A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon's Wonderful Postings (part 1)

Part 3 is here!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT3HyR1T3hhV0ya6DVM3vCmHKG0rk8GPLiNP8ue6dsE/edit?usp=sharing

Torei Zenji’s Bodhisattva Vow

When I regard the true nature of all things and all living creatures,
I find them to be the sacred forms of the Tathagatha’s never-failing
essence.

Each particle of matter, each moment, is no other than the Tathagatha’s
inexpressible radiance.

With this realization, our noble ancestors gave tender care to beasts and
birds, with compassionate minds and hearts.
Among us, in our own daily lives,
who is not reverently grateful for the protections of life: food, drink and
clothing!
Though they are inanimate things, that are nonetheless the warm flesh and blood,
the merciful incarnations of Buddha.

All the more, we can be especially understanding and affectionate with
foolish people,
particularly with someone who becomes a sworn enemy and persecutes us
with abusive language.
That very abuse conveys the Buddha’s boundless loving-kindness.
It is a compassionate device to liberate us entirely from the mean spirited
delusions
we have built up with our wrongful conduct from the beginning-less past.

With our open response to such abuse we completely relinquish ourselves,
and the most profound and pure faith arises.
At the peak of each thought a lotus flower opens,
and on each flower there is revealed a Buddha.
Everywhere is the Pure Land in its beauty.
We see fully the Tathagata’s radiant light right where we are.

May we retain this mind and extend it throughout the world
so that we and all beings become mature in Buddha’s wisdom.

Continuation of  Table of Contents for Malcolm Dharmawheel Posts + Astus, Krodha (Kyle Dixon), Geoff (Jnana), Meido Moore

Update:

 Created an app which splits Acarya Malcolm's posts into PDFs and Word documents based on keywords and themes. 

  You can now download the compilation of Acarya Malcolm's writings split up into hundreds of themes and topics here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eAVyuxiw4xx8qIZ3-kydO_jSKCQsktqB/view?usp=share_link

Three more programs that I created: 

A continuation of Compilation of Acarya Malcolm Smith's 42157 Dharmawheel Posts

Added Table of Contents.

Also added compilation of posts by Astus, Krodha (Kyle Dixon), Geoff (Jnana), Zen Master Meido Moore, all of whom John Tan and I likes. Update: also added Geoff in Dhammawheel, my posts, Lotus_Bitch, Ven. Dhammanando and Ven. Hui-feng.

Astus Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/ln2rvagp8u7xx0uytci78defdawgctsm

Krodha (Kyle Dixon) Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/k0frsynnhxkivdsvjiqyhvt0zc8blbsl

(Note: the above are Krodha's Dharmawheel Posts, do also check out Krodha's Reddit posts compilation:

A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon's Wonderful Postings (part 1)

A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon's Wonderful Postings Part 2

A Compilation of Some of Kyle Dixon's Wonderful Postings Part 3)

Geoff (Jnana) Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/axsh5qeue8vdy47p7enztv9oryjr5qf7

Zen Master Meido Moore Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/lbiudrkbiueq89y2z4xvx499d6st95y8

Also, from previous post:

Malcolm posts in 12 files (docx and pdf and table of contents provided): https://app.box.com/s/ju3gothq09bmzzpcehv045ylwegvfzaj

Malcolm posts in 3 files (docx and pdf and table of contentsprovided): https://app.box.com/s/pwn72amv07cptm1wekvc2twv3k980iiv

Malcolm posts in one file (docx and pdf and table of contents provided): https://app.box.com/s/ibii96pyxps6nlhy71pj76s5mi92qxr1

Update:

 Created an app which splits Malcolm's posts into PDFs and Word documents based on keywords and themes. 

  You can now download the compilation of Malcolm's writings split up into hundreds of themes and topics here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eAVyuxiw4xx8qIZ3-kydO_jSKCQsktqB/view?usp=share_link

Update 2:

 Here's more: 

Geoff (Nyana) Dhammawheel [The Theravada forum] Posts (This is the same Geoff as Jnana of the Mahayana Dharmawheel forum): https://app.box.com/s/pw4beip6gnnwflfrl3gq120xm01ljte2

 Xabir (myself, Soh) Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/j0razae3ogrif4zknkqasj7fbz26ay7t

 Xabir (myself, Soh) Dhammawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/3225lpmyh4b9kyhn4oh6fqnsyu71it63

 Lotus_Bitch Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/8sj323zd9quyr6uy0y4z6c6qplmkq3kx

 Also, I have not verified whether the contents of the following authors are good, but I have found some of their contents rather interesting and so have included them here: 

Ven. Dhammanando's Dhammawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/ki5ns6ncs84erig2pud82hbfz2flp6ra

Ven. Hui-feng's Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/p9yvwnipgn2lk6m20ydxslc76pw30f5c

Updated my programs to GitHub which you can view and use:  https://github.com/sohweiyu2023/DharmawheelScraper

Update 3:

Update on dharmawheelscrapper:

Today, we've made substantial enhancements to the DharmawheelScraper project, a purpose-built tool for efficiently harvesting posts from the Dharmawheel platform for subsequent analysis and study. Previously, the project encountered challenges with the login functionality, hindering access to user-specific content. To tackle this, we implemented Selenium, a renowned tool for automating browsers. Selenium not only successfully resolved the login issues but also provided a more robust way of navigating through the website and interacting with its dynamic elements.

The primary focus of our enhancements was to create a resilient mechanism to traverse the site's pages and posts while preventing the scraper from stopping prematurely due to stale or changed webpage elements.

Furthermore, we acknowledged a limitation pertaining to new accounts, where they seem to be unable to scrape the most recent posts from the same day. We deduced that this might be due to account activity or age, and accordingly, provided guidance on the matter to end-users.

In essence, these improvements aim to make the DharmawheelScraper project more flexible, efficient, and resilient to the dynamic nature of web content, ensuring the accurate and reliable collection of valuable data.

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Programs I created:

DharmawheelScraper is designed to scrape posts from the DharmaWheel.net forum, specifically from the user specified as "Malcolm" and others. It will gather all the posts from this user and save them into text files in your computer. The program supports incremental updates, meaning it can scrape only the latest posts since the last scraping operation.

AutoScrapper is a powerful automation tool designed to streamline and simplify the execution of multiple console applications for scrapping the posts of Dharmawheel.net user(s). It facilitates the running of designated console programs, captures and labels their outputs for easy monitoring, and provides automated responses to their prompts. Configurable via a settings file, AutoScrapper can be set up to execute a variety of tasks based on specific requirements. Its integration with Windows Task Scheduler via batch scripts also enables routine automated operations, making it an invaluable tool for efficient system management and data processing.

AutoScrapper allows me to re-generate all the users' posts weekly based on latest updates, which I will upload to Box.com. 

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Dharmawheel Post Scraper User Guide: Listening to PDFs on iPhone, Android and Windows

This user guide will provide you with instructions on how to download and listen to the PDF files generated by the Dharmawheel Post Scraper on your iPhone or Android device. The text-to-speech feature allows you to listen to the content while traveling, driving, or performing other tasks.

For iPhone Users:

1. Download the PDF files: a. Open the Safari browser on your iPhone. b. Navigate to the box.com link provided, which contains the zip file with the PDF files. c. Tap on the zip file to download it. d. Once the download is complete, tap on the zip file to extract its contents. The PDF files will be visible in the Files app.

2. Add the PDF files to the Books app: a. Open the Files app on your iPhone. b. Locate the folder containing the extracted PDF files. c. Tap on the "Select" button in the top-right corner. d. Select all the PDF files you want to add to the Books app. e. Tap on the "Share" button at the bottom-left corner. f. Scroll through the list of apps and select "Books." The PDF files will now be added to your Books library.

3. Use the speech control panel to listen to the PDF files: a. Open the Settings app on your iPhone. b. Scroll down and tap on "Accessibility." c. Tap on "Spoken Content." d. Toggle on "Speak Screen." e. Open the Books app and navigate to the PDF file you want to listen to. f. Swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers to activate the speech control panel. Your iPhone will start reading the text from the PDF file aloud.

For Android Users:

1. Download the PDF files: a. Open the Chrome browser on your Android device. b. Navigate to the box.com link provided, which contains the zip file with the PDF files. c. Tap on the zip file to download it. d. Once the download is complete, use a file manager app to locate the downloaded zip file. e. Tap on the zip file and select "Extract" to extract its contents. The PDF files will be visible in the file manager app.

2. Add the PDF files to a PDF reader app (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit PDF Reader, etc.): a. Open the file manager app on your Android device. b. Locate the folder containing the extracted PDF files. c. Tap on a PDF file to open it. Your Android device may prompt you to select a PDF reader app to open the file. Choose your preferred app and select "Always" to set it as the default app for opening PDF files.

3. Use a text-to-speech app to listen to the PDF files: a. Download a text-to-speech app from the Google Play Store (e.g., Voice Aloud Reader, Talk Free, etc.). b. Open the text-to-speech app and grant any necessary permissions. c. Use the app's file browser to locate and open the PDF file you want to listen to. The app will start reading the text from the PDF file aloud.

You can now listen to the content of the Dharmawheel Post Scraper PDFs on your iPhone or Android device while traveling, driving, or performing other tasks.

For Windows Users:  

(This feature is available on Android, iOS, and desktop and can be accessed whether online or offline) 

Here's how to use the "Read PDF Aloud" option in Microsoft Edge to read PDF files:

1. **Open Microsoft Edge**: If it's not already on your taskbar, you can find it in your list of installed applications.

2. **Open the PDF**: Navigate to the PDF file you wish to have read aloud. You can do this by typing the file location into the URL bar, or by dragging and dropping the file into the browser window.

3. **Open the Reading Options**: Once your PDF is open, look for an icon at the top-right corner of your browser window that looks like a book with a speaker. If the PDF is compatible with the feature, this icon will be clickable.

4. **Select "Read Aloud"**: Click on the book icon, then select "Read Aloud" from the dropdown menu.

5. **Control the Reading**: After starting the "Read Aloud" feature, you'll see new controls at the top of your screen. You can use these to pause, play, skip forward, or skip backward.

6. **Adjust the Settings**: If you want to change the reading speed or the voice used, click on the "Voice options" which is next to the control buttons. Here, you can adjust the reading speed and choose from various voices.

7. **Stop the Reading**: If you want to stop the reading, you can click on the "X" button on the right side of the control bar at the top of your screen.

Remember, the "Read Aloud" feature depends on the quality of the PDF. If the PDF is made up of scanned images instead of text, the "Read Aloud" feature may not work as expected.

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Update: I noticed in 2011, some of the early posts by Krodha (Kyle Dixon) may be prone to nihilism. That was before he was guided by Acarya Malcolm Smith. Hence do take note that everyone's understanding matures over time and their current understanding may not reflect what was spoken more than a decade ago. Nonetheless all of Kyle's postings are worth going through and incredibly insightful (and I believe he realised anatman in 2011 or even before -- Advice from Kyle Dixon) even from the beginning, besides a few of those earliest postings which may be a little misleading.

Thusness had many praises for Kyle even in 2012 and said his posts were no less insightful than great Buddhist masters, and he said commented on posts by Kyle (asunthatneversets - see early compilations in https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2012/03/a-sun-that-never-sets.html):
3/14/2012 1:16 PM: John: I went through posts by asunthatneversets, it is well written
3/14/2012 1:19 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Oic..

4/15/2012 6:05 PM: John: ASunthatNeverSets has many good pointers.  But there r still certain aspects that need deeper insight and clarity
4/15/2012 6:06 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Oic
4/15/2012 6:07 PM: John: I would prefer u to look into it instead of dwelling into other matters that will not help to deepen ur insights and understanding
4/15/2012 6:08 PM: John: For u now it is not easy to find an article that can provide good pointers...so treasure it.  Not to overlook it simply becoz it is written by some anonymous Internet forumer.

Kyle spoke about this later as well, possibly in 2012, 

“And to clarify, I only harp on this issue like I do because I used to carry the same view: that everything is already perfect... there's nothing to realize... there's no one here to do anything... there's no such thing as "correct" or "incorrect"... or that concepts were the enemy, and so on, and so on, and so on. All the same narratives you see being spun by most neo-nondual teachers and systems. I remember I used to argue with a friend/mentor all the time about how he doesn't get it, and he's just fooling himself with practice and so on. And I used to cite the same quotations from Longchenpa and others that were speaking from the point of view of the ultimate, and I (in my delusion) provided them as proof that I was correct etc.

Then one day that changed, and I experientially tasted what all of these masters are pointing to. And I was shown directly that I had been wrong, and that was very humbling.

That made these teachings real for me. And surprisingly, instead of continuing to reject practice, and all of these other aspects of these systems that I had previously thought to be extraneous and a waste of time... I saw their value and their place for the first time. It became clear how and why they are applied, where they fit into the scheme of things... and I saw the sheer wisdom behind the structures that I had once mistakenly rejected.

So I only speak out against those who attempt to propagate the same mistakes because I've been there. I was so certain that I was right, and that I "got it", and that others didn't understand. And I was so wrong... unbelievably wrong. 

I'm no teacher or messiah, I don't have a superiority complex or have some strange need to be "right", it's nothing like that. I simply speak out because when I see others who appear to be passionate about these teachings, making the same mistakes I made, I see myself, I can't help but to want to say "hey, it really isn't that way." And if all I accomplish is at least planting some shred of a seed of a possibility that X person may think twice and consider being open to the fact that they don't have it completely figured out, then that is good enough for me. If not, that is alright too, but at least I can say I tried......” – Kyle Dixon

“Kyle Dixon: Stian, Mr. J is implying that there is nothing to do, because all notions of 'anything to do', 'emptiness', 'right view', 'wrong view', 'ignorance', 'defilement' etc., are nothing more than concepts which arise and fall within the space of 'awareness' which cannot be improved upon or defiled... that is his view he is proposing. I beg to differ... to me this view is nothing more than a license for stagnation and complacency which only serves to perpetuate the issue. It is a false sense of security that one has already 'arrived' so to speak.

The quote applies to Mr. J, because he claims precisely what Jigme Lingpa is describing in that statement to be true, and did so directly above that quotation: Jackson's view being, nothing need be done, because all concepts (including those of the dharma such as emptiness etc.), are nothing more than thoughts which arise in what is already complete, as expressions of what is already complete. His logic therefore being, there is no need to even entertain such notions, one is already innately realized. Jigme Lingpa is stating that such a notion is an incorrect view which actually severs one from the profound dharma. Mr. J’s assertion that 'nothing needs fixin' is a view he has touted for a very long time now, it is very unskillful and misleading.

Yesterday at 1:41pm · Like

Mr. J: My view Kyle, is not that "nothing need be done". Bringing an end to conceptualizing is a huge task. Buddha stated "conceptualizing is a cancer". It is the sole source of samsara. If the cause of samsara ceases we only have nirvana as experience. However when that task has come to completion, then we know the space in which Nagarjuna lived along with all the masters of the Zen tradtion.

Yesterday at 1:48pm · Like

Kyle Dixon: Stian, Yes, right and wrong should surely be understood as a necessary and indispensable duality when it comes to the dharma. Right view is that which will lead to realization, wrong view is that which will perpetuate delusion.

Right and wrong are conventional as well, any conceptual structure we are implementing here is conventional.

'Full' can only be a conventional designation, the ultimate nature of 'full' is it's emptiness.

Yesterday at 1:51pm · Like · 1

Kyle Dixon: It's nothing more than a task that requires skillful recognition. At any rate though, it isn't simply a case of ending conceptualization... only conceptualization rejects conceptualization.

Yesterday at 1:53pm · Like · 1”

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I will update to include table of content page later

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Michael Bridge

It might be interesting to use OpenAI embeddings via Langchain to create a question/answer bot based on the content. Embeddings are a lot cheaper than fine tuning, but there would be costs involved.

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Robert Dominik Tkanka

Joyful Ebbot 🧡👓

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Michael Bridge John Tan was doing coding for similar things and for the AtR gpt project. He just said “I have completed writing the program querying on books using opena, langchain and chroma....but needs lots of refinentment.

I wonder how to try the AI. The answers are weird...ahha” “It is like querying a book and talking to a book. The books answer back.”

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Created the third program:

User's Guide for Dharmawheel Table of Contents Generator Program

Introduction

The Table of Contents Generator Program is a tool designed to process PDF documents and automatically generate a table of contents (TOC) based on the titles in each document. Each entry in the TOC includes the title and the corresponding page number(s). The TOC for each processed document is saved as a separate PDF file.

This guide provides instructions for using the Table of Contents Generator Program.

Prerequisites

.NET Runtime installed on your system. This program is built with .NET, and you will need the .NET Runtime to run it. You can download it here.

The program file (DharmawheelTableOfContentsCreator.exe or similar). You should have received this file separately.

Your PDF documents should follow a specific format where each title is prefixed with "Title: ".

Running the Program

To run the program, open a command prompt, navigate to the directory containing the program file, and enter the following command:

DharmawheelTableOfContentsCreator.exe

This will start the program, and you will see a prompt in the command line interface.

Using the Program

When you run the program, it will first ask you to make a choice:

Enter '1' to create table of contents for all files in a directory and its subdirectories, or '2' to create a table of contents for a specific file:

Enter 1 or 2 depending on your needs, and press Enter.

Option 1: Process All Files in a Directory and Its Subdirectories

If you chose 1, you will be prompted to enter the path of the directory containing the PDF files you want to process:

Enter the directory path:

Enter the path to the directory, and press Enter. The program will then count the PDF files in that directory and its subdirectories and ask for confirmation before proceeding:

This will process [number] files. Are you sure you want to proceed? (y/n)

Enter y to proceed or n to cancel, and press Enter. If you chose to proceed, the program will start processing the files one by one, providing progress updates as it goes.

Option 2: Process a Specific File

If you chose 2, you will be prompted to enter the path of the specific PDF file you want to process:

Enter the file path:

Enter the path to the file, and press Enter. The program will then process this single file.

Output

After processing each file, the program will generate a new PDF file containing the TOC. The TOC file will be saved in the same directory as the original document, with the same name followed by _TableOfContents. For example, if the original document is named MyDocument.pdf, the TOC file will be named MyDocument_TableOfContents.pdf.

The TOC consists of lines of text. Each line includes a title and the corresponding page number(s) in the format Title: [page numbers].

Troubleshooting

If the program encounters an error, it will display a message in the command line interface. Note the message and consult the program's documentation or support resources. If the problem persists, contact the program's support team with the details of the error message and what you were doing when the error occurred.

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Aaron Bohannon

It boggles my mind to think that those who have attained non-dual awareness can write so much. When I had attained a relatively stable, longer-term state of what we might call "non-conceptual awareness", I would always need at least an hour or so to fully find my way back to that state after writing or conversing for more than a few hours. I didn't use sitting meditation to do that, but I just needed time alone to shake off the pull away from the temptation to use language in my thinking. And on the whole, I wasn't very interested in using lauguage much back then. One of the reasons that I haven't attempted to reestablish my relationship with that state of mind is that these days I spend most of my time writing, so I feel as though it would be relatively futile for me to make any great effort. (Now my main interest is in the philosophy of language. 🙂 )

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Updated with Table of Contents:

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Generated output of Malcolm's forum posts in PDF, word and text files: https://app.box.com/s/ju3gothq09bmzzpcehv045ylwegvfzaj

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Warning: The following word and PDF documents are super huge. Save all your files before attempting to open them, as I cannot guarantee that opening the files will not crash your system.

It is recommended that you run the files in Malcolm12PartsForumPosts.zip instead from the previous post.

Malcolm posts in 3 files(docx and pdf provided): https://app.box.com/s/pwn72amv07cptm1wekvc2twv3k980iiv

Malcolm posts in one file (docx and pdf provided): https://app.box.com/s/ibii96pyxps6nlhy71pj76s5mi92qxr1

Warning: the one file contains about 10,000 pages of texts and will likely crash your system if you do not have enough RAM and processing power.

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Longest table of contents I've ever seen. 187 pages long table of contents. About the length of the power of now (191 pages).

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Update:

 Created an app which splits Malcolm's posts into PDFs and Word documents based on keywords and themes. 

  You can now download the compilation of Malcolm's writings split up into hundreds of themes and topics here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eAVyuxiw4xx8qIZ3-kydO_jSKCQsktqB/view?usp=share_link