Sunday, March 22, 2026 · 天火 · tianmu.org
Teachings on Practice
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Abstaining from Killing is the Root of Ending WarA Buddhist lecture series on vegetarianism, karma, and non-violence as the foundation of peace.Cautions for White Sun CultivatorsSpirit-writing warnings from the Asura King and the Keeper of the Heavenly Prison on the tests and punishments awaiting cultivators in the White Sun era.Cultivation of the Three TreasuresA complete Yiguandao doctrinal text in twenty chapters, revealed through spirit-writing — Ji Gong and the immortals teach the theology, history, and practice of the Three Treasures.Exploring the Origin of UnityA Qing-dynasty cosmological treatise by the Yiguandao patriarch Beihai Laoren — the first English translation. Traces the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism through astronomical cosmology, the He Tu and Luo Shu, the Five Phases, the Golden Elixir, and the Confucian synthesis of 'overcoming the self and returning to propriety.'Ji Gong on the Five PreceptsThe Living Buddha Ji Gong teaches the five precepts — killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and alcohol — as steps on the bodhisattva path.On Proper VegetarianismJi Gong's conversational teaching on the distinction between vegetarianism and true purification.Registered in Heaven, Removed from the UnderworldA practitioner's testimony of childhood soul-journeys through the underworld and the Dragon-Heaven Tablet.The Mother's Ten Precepts for Her ChildrenThe Eternal Mother's ten admonitions to her lost children, spirit-written in 1941 — a mother's plea across sixty thousand years of separation.