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The Seven Books

Reading Sequence

Seven books, one road home.

This page follows the original source order; each Read Full Text button is bound to that book's official source link.

  1. 01

    Foundation

    实修般若

    The foundational text: real practice is not a fixed form but the breaking of attachment and the movement in the right direction.

  2. 02

    View

    Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

    A Diamond Sutra commentary presenting the formless suchness mind as the diamond mind, unmoved by appearances, methods, or conditions.

  3. 03

    Map

    The Origin of the Shurangama

    A map of return through appearance, cognition, root, and mind, drawn from the opening conditions of the Shurangama Sutra.

  4. 04

    Breakthrough

    Breaking Through Cognitive Bondage

    A text on breaking through identification with cognition and returning practice to direct knowing.

  5. 05

    Explanation

    Explaining Cognitive Bondage

    An explanatory text on cognitive bondage and the mistake of taking understanding itself as realization.

  6. 06

    Path

    Rapid Path to Bodhi

    A path text that brings practice into daily life and direct application.

  7. 07

    Destination

    Direct Realization of the Esoteric Meaning

    A text on returning cognition to the body of mind: the original field of knowing, named as home.

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实修般若

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Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

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The Origin of the Shurangama

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The books are not an archive alone. The teaching map gives each text its place.