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.'
  • Immortals and Buddhas Speak on the Source of the DaoThe first three sections of a Yiguandao teaching compendium — covering the meaning of religion, the unity of the five teachings, and the esoteric depth of the six-character mantra. The remaining sections of the original fifty are no longer available from the source.
  • 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.
  • New Commentary on the Doctrine of the MeanLü Dongbin's 1947 spirit-written commentary on the Doctrine of the Mean — the companion volume to his New Commentary on the Great Learning, completing his plain-language interpretation of the Two Books through the lens of Yiguandao theology. First English translation.
  • New Commentary on the Great LearningLü Dongbin's 1947 spirit-written commentary on Confucius's Great Learning — claiming to restore the chapters on the Investigation of Things and Extension of Knowledge lost in the Qin dynasty book-burning over two thousand years ago.
  • On Proper VegetarianismJi Gong's conversational teaching on the distinction between vegetarianism and true purification.
  • Precious Raft for Saving the WorldA complete Yiguandao folk-song catechism in shepherd's tunes — twenty-four chapters, three hundred and sixty stanzas of the Mother's doctrine set to music for the common people. All chapters, the preface, foreword, opening verses, epilogue, and addendum. First English translation.
  • Principles and Numbers CombinedBeihai Laoren's masterwork -- a four-volume synthesis of Principle and Number, uniting Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist philosophy through the Yiguandao lens. Commentary on the Great Learning and Doctrine of the Mean, with exploration of the Three Changes.
  • Program of Cultivating the DaoThe most comprehensive catechism in the Yiguandao corpus — sixty chapters across three parts on the meaning, cultivation, and practice of the Way. First complete English translation. Sixty tulku lives carried this text from first word to last.
  • 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.
  • 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.