Table of Contents for Malcolm Dharmawheel Posts + Astus, Krodha (Kyle Dixon), Geoff (Jnana), Meido Moore
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Update: Compilation of Acarya Malcolm Smith's & Other Teachers' Posts

This is a continuation of Compilation of Acarya Malcolm Smith's 42157 Dharmawheel Posts. We have added Tables of Contents and compiled posts from other significant contributors.

1. Download Compilations

Acarya Malcolm Smith

Krodha (Kyle Dixon)

Other Teachers & Contributors

2. Custom Software for Scraping & Formatting

I have released the programs used to create these compilations on GitHub. You can view and use them here:
https://github.com/sohweiyu2023/DharmawheelScraper

DharmawheelScraper: Designed to scrape posts from DharmaWheel.net (e.g., from "Malcolm"). It saves posts into text files and supports incremental updates.

Table of Contents Generator: Processes PDF documents and automatically generates a Table of Contents based on titles, saving it as a separate PDF.

CombineTextFilesToWord: Combines multiple text files into a single Word (.docx) and PDF file. Can process subfolders and sort files.

KeywordExtractor & CategorisedWordPDF: Analyzes text files for specific keywords/synonyms and organizes posts into categorized Word/PDF documents based on themes.

AutoScrapper: An automation tool that runs multiple console applications to scrape, label, and update posts weekly.

Update on DharmawheelScraper: We have implemented Selenium to resolve login issues and handle dynamic elements, making the scraper more resilient to stale elements. We also addressed limitations regarding scraping new posts for fresh accounts.

3. Guide: Listening to PDFs (Text-to-Speech)

This guide walks you through downloading and listening to PDF files on various devices using text-to-speech (TTS) features.

iPhone

  1. Download: Download the ZIP from Box.com in Safari and extract it in the Files app.
  2. Add to Books: Select the PDFs in Files, tap Share, and choose "Copy to Books."
  3. Listen: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content. Enable "Speak Screen" and "Speech Controller." Open the PDF in Books and use the Speech Controller play button.

Android

  1. Download: Download and extract the ZIP file.
  2. Listen: Use a dedicated app like Voice Aloud Reader, or enable "Select to Speak" in Settings > Accessibility.

Windows

  1. Open the PDF in Microsoft Edge.
  2. Click the "Read Aloud" icon (book with a speaker) in the toolbar.

Mac

  1. Open the PDF in Preview.
  2. Go to Edit > Speech > Start Speaking.

4. Important Note on Kyle Dixon (Krodha)

I noticed that in 2011, some of the early posts by Krodha (Kyle Dixon) may be prone to nihilism. This was before he was guided by Acarya Malcolm Smith. Please note that everyone's understanding matures over time. Nonetheless, all of Kyle's postings are worth going through and are incredibly insightful.

Thusness (John Tan) on Kyle (2012):

"ASunthatNeverSets [Kyle] has many good pointers... For you 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 Dixon on his shift regarding Merit & Practice:

"Merit was something that I sort of passed off as a made up thing... but I'm starting to see how that applies with one's intentions and that compassionate resonance... My mentor hammers on merit so much and i used to just think he was being dogmatic but I see that it's a viable and legitimate facet of experience."

Kyle Dixon Reflection (Later Years):

"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... All the same narratives you see being spun by most neo-nondual teachers and systems...

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... I saw the sheer wisdom behind the structures that I had once mistakenly rejected."

Longchenpa on Nihilism

From Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind:

"Those who scorn the law of karmic cause and fruit
Are students of the nihilist view outside the Dharma.
They rely on the thought that all is void;
They fall in the extreme of nothingness...

The true, authentic path asserts
The arising in dependence of both cause and fruit,
The natural union of skillful means and wisdom."

Also by Longchenpa: "To reject practice by saying, ‘it is conceptual!’ is the path of fools."

Recent Updates & Comments

Soh Wei Yu: I will update to include table of content page later.

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.

Soh Wei Yu: 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 openai, langchain and chroma....but needs lots of refinement. 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.”

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...

Soh Wei Yu: Generated output of Malcolm's forum posts in PDF, word and text files.
Warning: The single file contains about 10,000 pages of texts and will likely crash your system if you do not have enough RAM.
Longest table of contents I've ever seen. 187 pages long table of contents. About the length of The Power of Now.

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