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For all new to Awakening to Reality blog, I highly recommend reading the 'Must Read' articles on the right panel, such as
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"Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Exploring a series of experiential awakenings and insights into the nature of pristine consciousness.
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"On Anatta (No-Self), Emptiness, Maha and Ordinariness, and Spontaneous Perfection" (Available in multiple languages: AR, DA, DE, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, NE, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RU, TA, TH, VI, ZH) - Delving into the subject in more detail.
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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
Nafis Rahman recently realised anatta. (See: Nafis Rahman's Breakthrough to Anatta)
Soon he is having experiences of total exertion. Progressing well. I recommended him a soto zen book this time, which he finds resonating: Being-Time by Shinshu Roberts
I
can see non-arising in terms of thoughts now due to Mahamudra, it’s
impossible to find or grasp a thought just like trying to grab an
individual raindrop when it’s raining outside. However, I’m not sure how
to see non-arising in terms of phenomena or everyday objects like the
chair in my room. Just endlessly deconstructing doesn’t seem to be
working. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Similar to this article: https://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/.../emptinesschar...?
From personal experience (trying to understand what it means):
I
was practicing the time exercises in Seeing that frees and then had an
experience around 1 month ago where time no longer existed or atleast I
couldn’t see it anymore. It’s like multiple timelines all merged
together, past life, past, present, and future and that everything was
happening in the same time simultaneously. Not sure if this is an
insight or delusion, but this feeling of “multi-dimensional” time has
been pretty stable for the last 2 weeks and feels very liberating.
While
practicing the walking meditations, I completely deconstructed any
sense of body or road to the point where there was only clashing
sensations without any body producing the sensations in the first place.
The experience is still underdeveloped; I want to go further but suffer
an energy imbalance whenever I go too far. However in the process of
deconstructing my body, I had a weird experience where instead of
walking on top of the world, it feels like I’m walking as the world
itself. Like oneness, but not advaita oneness. It feels like multiple
strands of oneness are intertwined together or oneness without a
“source”, and I’m beyond time and space or atleast shattered the
barriers they used to impose. Also feels like I’m one with the universe
while the universe is creating itself, or in a state of universal
oneness, where everything is more infinitely dimensional. It happens now
whenever I walk, at least for the last two weeks, and walking feels
very profound. Also in general as well. Difficult to describe in words,
couldn’t find anything similar in the ebook or any Buddhist book.
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You are describing an experience of total exertion. There are books on it. More in soto zen, dogen etc. See AtR guide on that.
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Soh,
when I listen to music, it feels like I’m one with the universe while
one with the music, while at the same time, the music is one with the
universe and vice-versa. Like some kind of inter-dimensional global
universal oneness state beyond space-time and other boundaries. Is this
"total exertion" or a delusion?
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Boundaries is the delusion.
When
the bond that creates artificial boundaries and separation is
sufficiently released through penetrating dependent origination and
emptiness, total exertion becomes a natural state.
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Soh Wei Yu
This description of being-time is very resonating btw! Thought I was hallucinating, but it seems to be an actual insight.
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I'll
read this being-time book first. I was afraid of going deeper into this
"oneness" state, so I tried to avoid it, but I'll go even deeper now.
If I have any follow-up questions, I'll be sure to ask.
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Btw,
it feels very magical, even anatta feels like nothing in comparison. I
don't feel human anymore....i wish everyone in the world could feel
total exertion right now.
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Lol, just checked the guide. I was so busy trying to realize A- that I experienced A+ instead...
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Soh
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is Stage 6 basically being in a state of universal oneness/total
exertion without boundaries where everything is illusionary and
non-arising?
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From
AtR guide: "+A Emptiness is Total Exertion and Maha. -A Emptiness is
the empty, non-arising and illusory nature of presencing appearance.
Phase 6 is about replacing the whole view with Dependent Origination and
Emptiness through direct realization, and +A and -A are the experiences
from it. However, it is possible to have glimpses of +A and -A and
still lack definitive realization. For example, one may have taste of
dream-like nature from all appearances arising as one’s radiance, but it
is still a glimpse or experience than the realization of emptiness,
which overturns the view of seeing phenomena in terms of existing by way
of its own essence, arising, abiding and ceasing.
In
phase 6, it is no longer about clarity (clarity is already implicit and
forgotten rather than singled out or over-emphasized). It is possible
to realize and experience +A without going into -A, or realize and
experience -A without going into +A, and it is also possible to
experience both and later come to an integration of +A and -A through an
experiential realization. Total exertion too has various depths, at a
mature phase the total exertion penetrates not only the ten directions
but the three times (past, present and future).
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