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.
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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.
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02
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Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
A Diamond Sutra commentary presenting the formless suchness mind as the diamond mind, unmoved by appearances, methods, or conditions.
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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.
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04
Breakthrough
Breaking Through Cognitive Bondage
A text on breaking through identification with cognition and returning practice to direct knowing.
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05
Explanation
Explaining Cognitive Bondage
An explanatory text on cognitive bondage and the mistake of taking understanding itself as realization.
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06
Path
Rapid Path to Bodhi
A path text that brings practice into daily life and direct application.
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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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Next, read the teaching map
The books are not an archive alone. The teaching map gives each text its place.