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The Post-Anatta Pathway
From Desynchronization to Spontaneous Presence (Lhun Grub)
Before you begin
Put down the baggage
Nothing is simply given; and words and concepts cannot hold what vividly appears. Read these first, lightly.
Stage 1
The Desync
Insight ahead of view
Seen through
The belief that the anatta insight has finished the work. The view has not yet caught up.
Sign you're here
No doer in seeing, yet things "out there" still feel solid and self-standing.
From The Logic
Bonus articles
Stage 2
The Hidden Carrier
The blindfold of inherency
Seen through
The quiet substrate: energy, a lamp, a stream, a pure awareness, or a void after it ends.
Sign you're here
You notice how the mind keeps looking for something underneath that carries it all.
From The Logic
Bonus articles
Stage 3
What Appears
Phenomena singled out, mind and consciousness included
Seen through
A thing (or a mind) found from its own side behind the singling out.
Sign you're here
Vivid, yet nowhere to be found; mind is seen as one more appearing, not a container.
From The Logic
- What the Logic Is Looking At
- Step 3 Designated, Not Found
- Step 4 The Two Truths
Bonus articles
Stage 4
The Dissolving Logic
Tools for seeing through
Seen through
Arising, ceasing, is and is-not, taken as found; the two traps of eternalism and nihilism.
Sign you're here
The logic stops being argument and starts loosening the grip as you look.
From The Logic
- The Logic of Dependency
- Koan Does It Arise or Cease?
- Step 5 The Four Corners
- Step 6 The Two Traps
Bonus articles
Stage 5
Conditions Without a Producer
Causality seen through
Seen through
Causal power: a cause that hands something over; a carrier, or a cut, between moments.
Sign you're here
Things work, fully and reliably, yet nothing does the working.
From The Logic
Bonus articles
Stage 6
Spontaneous Presence
Lhun grub
Seen through
The last distance: a seer, a ground, or a source behind what appears.
Sign you're here
Each appearing complete as it is: light, magical and plastic, with nothing behind it.
From The Logic
- Step 8 The Four Questions
Bonus articles
Stage 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 · not a ladder to climb once, but a seeing that deepens
Read next: Three Descriptions, One Taste, how anatta, dependent arising and spontaneous presence fit together along this path: one taste, met three times and described three ways.