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Awakening to Reality

From “I AM” to non-duality, no-self, emptiness and spontaneous perfection

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Must Reads

1) John Tan/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
Introducing John Tan’s New Website
(简体中文)John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy（真如/过路人）开悟的七个阶段
(繁體中文)John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy（真如/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、知見、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)
我对《婆希耶经》的评论
20) Self and phenomena as a learnt, reified concept
21) Working for Sentient Beings
22) 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
23) Self Enquiry, Neti Neti and the Process of Elimination
24) Genuine Realisation is Rare, Most Claimants are Delusional
25) 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)
26) Yuan Yin Lao Ren: Teachings on Mind, Practice, and Liberation (2026 Integrated Edition)
27) The Unfindable Fullness: How a Drum, a Rainbow, and a Mirage Unlock the Heart Sūtra
28) The Causal Power of the Unreal
29) Dōgen Total Exertion — Totality Beyond Whole and Parts
30) Dependent Arising = Spontaneous Presence: Unpacking a Non-Dual View

Free Books

The Awakening to Reality Practice Guide and AtR Guide - abridged version
【新书发布】《觉醒于现实修行指南》中文译本现已推出
Awakening to Reality: A Guide to the Nature of Mind (Long Version)
Soh’s Journal and Notes on Spiritual Awakening

Featured Articles

A Practitioner's Reflection on the Kōmyōzō Zanmai (Treasury of Light)
Tara and "Manifestation"
The Children Who Should Not Know: A Case for Rebirth
本不该知道的孩子：论轮回
The Woman Who Came Back: Anita Moorjani and the Case for an Afterlife
从死亡边缘归来的女子：安妮塔·穆尔贾尼与死后生命的证据
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
Free AI Tools: Cosmic Transcriber & CloudScribe Pro - Turn Audio & Video to Text · Text to MP3
John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy（真如/过路人）开悟的七个阶段 - Chinese Translation of John Tan/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
John Tan/Thusness/PasserBy's Vipassana