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Record of Sincere Advancement in Cultivation Original title: 率真進修錄 (Shuài Zhēn Jìn Xiū Lù) Author: The Dean (院長) Recorder: Anonymous (筆者) Translation pipeline: Distill (2026-03-07)

Preface This book is a record of lectures of the highest order. Because they address sincere advancement in cultivation — and because cultivating the true Dao requires, above all, a genuine heart — everything spoken here forms a step-by-step staircase for our ...

Chapter 1: How to Hold Right Faith in God and Resolve Doubts Throughout all times and places, men and women, old and young, all hold reverential titles and worship for "God," "the Heavenly Father," "my Lord," "Old Heaven," and others like them. But what, after...

Chapter 2: Have You Truly Entrusted Yourself? This topic asks each of us personally: have you understood your own origin and your mission? Have you believed it? Our body, of course, was conceived from our father's essence and our mother's blood. But parents ca...

Chapter 3: The Relationship Between Dao and Human Life Dao is principle; principle is the path. All things in creation are born from Dao, and therefore all things possess their own inherent principle. Heaven has its celestial principles, earth has its terrestr...

Chapter 4: What Makes the Heavenly Dao Precious The preciousness of the Heavenly Dao lies in this: first, Dao is not lightly transmitted. Second, when receiving Dao, one must have two sponsors who serve as the Introducer and Guarantor Masters. Furthermore, bef...

Chapter 5: Why People Do Not Advance After Receiving Dao The ancient sages said: "Receiving Dao is easy, cultivating Dao is hard; cultivating Dao is easy, fulfilling Dao is hard." This saying, too, confirms the meaning of our topic. Upon careful investigation,...

Chapter 6: Is There a Distinction Between the Heavenly Dao and the Human Way? The Heavenly Dao and the Human Way are originally without any distinction whatsoever. It is only because people's vision differs — in how far it reaches and how much it encompasses —...

Chapter 7: What Does It Mean to Cultivate Merit and Virtue? "Cultivate" means to put into practice. "Merit" means effective work. "Establish" means to set up. "Virtue" means moral excellence. Only by putting effective work into practice can one establish true ...

Chapter 8: What Does It Mean to Honor the Teacher and Treasure Dao? In the Final Catastrophe of the Three Eras, the true Dao has descended into the world. Whoever receives the Enlightened Teacher's transmission can personally escape catastrophe and avoid calam...

Chapter 9: Karma and Retribution The reason people of the world cannot refrain from all evil and practice all good is entirely because they do not understand the principle of karmic cause and effect. Confucius said: "If good is not accumulated, it is not suffi...

Chapter 10: The Origins and Resolution of Karmic Debts Whenever one takes profit without the other party's consent — through scheming and covert calculation, harming others to benefit oneself, causing people to suffer injustice they cannot clear — this is call...

Chapter 11: Why Observe the Vegetarian Vow and Its Benefits Since we cultivate the Heavenly Dao, we must embody Heaven's heart. Heaven possesses the virtue of cherishing life, taking benevolence and compassion as its foundation. Then we who cultivate Dao shoul...

Chapter 12: Thoroughly Recognizing True and False Among all things in the world, where there is the true there must be the false, and where there is the false there must be the true — this is the principle of duality. Without the true, the false cannot be reve...

Chapter 13: Recognizing the True Meaning of Trials and Tests "Trials and tests" — this is a path that we who cultivate Dao must inevitably traverse. Therefore it is said: "Those who cultivate Dao yet do not understand ordeals are not worth speaking with." It i...

Chapter 14: How to Face Trials and Tests (1) Inner Ordeals As for developing sores and falling ill, prolonged afflictions that will not heal, insect stings and dog bites, falls and blows and sudden pains, disasters of flood and fire, the menace of thieves and ...

Chapter 15: Subduing Body and Mind The mind is the sovereign ruler of the myriad spirits within the human body. The body is the instrument through which a person acts in life. Every movement of the body is governed by the mind's direction; every expression of ...

Chapter 16: Careful Speech and Cautious Conduct Careful speech means not being careless with one's words. Cautious conduct means exercising care and inspection over one's actions. A person's speech and actions should always be expressed in due measure. If they...