AtR Guide in ePub

Khizar Ali shared this with me: Hello, I wanted to give you the epub version of your book awakening to Reality that I downloaded and converted from your website. This version works great on mobile as the original version was hard for the mobile to load. Maybe you can upload it to the website for others It can be accessed via epub book reader app for android such as Moon Reader

 

 

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Weight of a Thought

John Tan’s new website
John Tan (Thusness / PasserBy) brings together his books, articles and narrated videos on anatta, emptiness and dependent arising at atr-passerby.com. See Soh’s introduction and reading suggestions.
Editorial note added by Soh.

 

John Tan

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How heavy are thoughts?
Where are their roots?
It is not uncommon to hear in the spiritual circle phrases like "the 'I' is just a thought" or "thought is empty and spacious, there is no weight or root to it".
While the rootlessness and the space-like nature of "thoughts" should be pointed out, one must not be misled into thinking they have seen through "anything" much less up-rooted the deeply seated conceptual notions of "I/mine", "body/mind", "space/time"...etc.
So emphasis must also be placed on the other side of the coin. "Thoughts" are astonishingly heavy like a black-hole (size of a pinhole, weight of a star); the roots of conceptual notions" they carry permeate our entire being and everywhere.
The "roots" of thoughts are no where to be found also means they can be found anywhere and everywhere, spreaded across the 3 times and 10 directions -- in modern context, over different time-lines across the multiverse. In other words, "this arises, that arises".

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Yin Ling
Need to hear this when so much thoughts popping up
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Mr./Ms. JM
Sensing the weight of this wisdom.
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Geovani Geo
The weight is anchored as a pre-conceived centered ongoing entity called 'me'. It is pre-conceived because thoughts conceive it as being prior to the very thought that conceives it.
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John Tan
Geovani Geo in fact any imagined notion reified as real takes up lots of energy.
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