When you recognize that the principles of the sages are the same, you will realize that Taoism and Buddhism are alike. If you do not understand this and seek elsewhere, you will get involved in sidetracks, wasting your life in vain imagining.
– Liu I Ming 1734–1821 AD
Foundational and preliminary practices
- Meditation practice starters guide
- Dharma: The art of living wisely
- Wise effort: The secret formula for practice
- Buddha recitation and Amitabha Pure Land practice
- Repentance and forgiveness practices
- Kindness, compassion and related practices
- Inquiry and related practices
- Prajñāpāramitā: Entries into emptiness and related practices
The core system of practice
Supplementary practices and more
- Mantra, chanting and related practices
- Entries into the same realization
- The Inner Sound: Advanced Dharma practice guide
- The Mysterious Pass: Advanced Dharma practice guide
- A bridge between traditions
- Jhāna and samādhi: Entries and methods
- Ānapānasati: Mindfulness while breathing in and out
- Vipassanā
- Liberating insight meditation
- Samsara and nirvana
- Further guidance for serious lay practitioners
Texts and teachings
Buddhist
- Verses from the Buddha on teaching and sharing Dharma
- Repentance
- The tathāgatagarbha sūtras
- Cultivation based on the sutra of perfect enlightenment
- 25 entries to śūraṅgama samādhi
- The heart of prajñāpāramitā sutra
- Perfection of wisdom practice (prajñāpāramitā)
- Diamond sutra non-abiding
- Vajrasamādhi sutra
- Samādhi of non-duality
- Entering into nonconceptuality
- Samādhi of complete extinction
- Killing with the sword of wisdom
- Amitābha Buddha and Pure Land practice
- The six paramitas
- Buddhas from the ten directions all standing before one samādhi
- Praise of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva
- Śūraṅgama mantra
- Reciting the name of Guan Yin (Avalokiteśvara)
- Avalokiteśvara dharani
- Hearing dharma door of Avalokiteśvara
- Ānāpānasati (mindfulness of breathing)
- Suññatā (descent into emptiness)
- Quarrels and disputes sutta
- Six dhātu (elements)
- Five upādānakkhandha (aggregates subject to clinging)
- Satipaṭṭhāna (establishing of mindfulness)
- Madhupiṇḍika (honey cake)
- Metta (goodwill)
- Karuṇā, (compassion)
- Mudita (empathetic joy)
- Upekkha (equanimity)
- Samatha and vipassana
- The eight-fold path: a way of life
- The seven factors of awakening
- The four ennobling realities
Taoist