Yiguandao

Texts from the Yiguandao tradition, the Way of Pervading Unity — scriptures of the Eternal Mother and the returning Dao.

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  • Calendar and Principles of ChangeWang Jueyi's patriarchal chronicle and Yijing cosmology through the Yiguandao lens — the Introduction and Preface of the last untranslated Category 9 text. First English translation.
  • Collection of Inscribed TeachingsFourteen spirit-writing teachings transmitted in 1981 under the Eternal Mother's command — Ji Gong and the celestial teachers speak in seven-character verse on heaven's mandate, spiritual testing, leadership, and the golden thread of the Dao.
  • Deeds of the Golden Patriarch, the Teacher Father, and the Teacher MotherFirsthand oral history of Yiguandao's founding — the 17th and 18th Patriarchs, their trials and triumphs — by Baishui Elder Han Yulin, who served the movement for sixty years.
  • Five Provisions for Returning to HeavenJi Gong the Living Buddha teaches the five provisions for returning to Heaven — moral character, precepts, right thoughts, inner tempering, and the fulfillment of vows.
  • Introduction to YiguandaoAn introduction to Yiguandao — the Way of Pervading Unity — its theology, its history, its scriptures, its persecution, and its place in the landscape of Chinese religion.
  • Learning the Dao and Cultivating the SelfA philosophical essay on the unity of all religions through the character 'one' — and the cultivation of the heart as the path home.
  • Maitreya Buddha's Guide to Spreading the DaoThe mythic biography of Maitreya Buddha — his seventy-two lifetimes, his cultivation under the Elder, and the cosmic history of how the Dao came to the world. A foundational Yiguandao scripture.
  • Nature, Mind, and BodyJi Gong the Living Buddha teaches his students about the three aspects of the self — nature, mind, and body — and how to cultivate each one.
  • Nine Rules that Thread the WayLü Dongbin, the Pure Yang Patriarch, reveals nine rules for cultivators of the Way of Unity — on the Mother's grief, karmic debt, the Gold and Wood Patriarchs, the four barriers, proper transmission, guiding the seeker, harmony among practitioners, fallen disciples, and the final return.
  • One Golden ThreadJi Gong threads the golden thread — a fifteen-chapter teaching on the Dao, its descent, its proof, and its fruit, delivered through planchette divination at a Yiguandao altar.
  • Path of Awakening to True CultivationThe Teacher Mother speaks alone through the planchette in 1948 — six sessions of urgent spirit-writing instruction for Yiguandao followers, delivered in the year after Zhang Tianran's death and the year before the Communist revolution.
  • Precious Raft to Return to the OriginTwenty-three letters from Elder Suyi to Yiguandao practitioners — on the cosmic crisis, the Mother's decree, the tests of faith, the lineage of the patriarchs, and the raft that carries the faithful home.
  • Recognizing Principle, Returning to TruthA systematic introduction to Yiguandao belief and practice in eighteen chapters — from the nature of the Dao to the diagram of reincarnation. The most accessible Yiguandao catechism in English.
  • Seeking the Dao and Worshipping the BuddhaGuanyin explains why the Dao must be sought though it was never lost — the fish in water that does not know water, the mountain path choked by sixty thousand years of weeds.
  • The Dean's Commentary on the Classic of Purity and StillnessA Yiguandao commentary on the Daoist Classic of Purity and Stillness — fifteen chapters of word-by-word annotation and spiritual exposition by the Foolish Elder (呆叟), reading Laozi through the lens of the Bright Teacher, Universal Salvation, and the Three Teachings as one.
  • The Disciple's Bright LampJi Gong, the Living Buddha, speaks to his disciples through spirit-writing — on his true nature, on their vows, on his love that never lets go. First English translation.
  • The Teacher's HeartJi Gong speaks from the heart to his disciples — a passionate call to remember their heavenly origin and fulfill their vows in the final age.
  • Thirteen Laments of the Imperial MotherA Yiguandao spirit-writing scripture in which the Eternal Mother delivers thirteen laments for her lost children, escorted by twenty-four celestial beings -- received in 1936.
  • Transmission Records of the Chan PatriarchsThe complete record of the Chan Buddhist Dharma transmission from Mahākāśyapa to Huineng — twenty-eight Indian patriarchs and six Chinese patriarchs, each with their encounter story and transmission verse.
  • True Words of the Old MotherThe Eternal Mother speaks in Hokkien dialect to her lost children — laments through the five watches of the night, instructions on the vegetarian path, and a vision of reunion in the Western Heaven.
  • What Yiguandao Disciples Should KnowA senior Yiguandao elder explains the tradition's origins, excellence, doctrine, and mission — the most comprehensive doctrinal primer in the archive. Complete text with appendix.
  • With Every Thought, Leave the Wheel BehindThe Song dynasty general Yue Fei, serving as a celestial judge in the White Sun era, warns Yiguandao practitioners about the weight of karmic debt and the urgent need for true repentance.

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