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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.
Astus Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/ln2rvagp8u7xx0uytci78defdawgctsm
Krodha (Kyle Dixon) Dharmawheel Posts: https://app.box.com/s/k0frsynnhxkivdsvjiqyhvt0zc8blbsl
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
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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 very insightful, besides a few of those earliest postings which may be a little misleading.
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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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
Two more programs that I created:
Firstly, DharmawheelKeywordExtractor is responsible for identifying and quantifying the presence of certain keywords within a collection of text files. It takes a file with specified keywords and their possible synonyms, then examines the text files in a user-defined directory to track the frequency of these keywords and their synonyms. The result of this process is a dataset highlighting the occurrence count of each keyword.
Following this, the KeywordsCategorisedWordPDF application comes into play. This program takes the output of the DharmawheelKeywordExtractor - the keywords - and further categorizes the text data from the specified directory according to these keywords. It then compiles these categorized posts into Microsoft Word and PDF documents. By doing this, KeywordsCategorisedWordPDF enhances data organization and simplifies the task of reviewing a significant volume of text data. Each output file generated contains posts that are sorted by date and grouped according to their associated keyword or synonyms.
