# Distill.family — full page index

> Live with care — for yourself, for others, for what holds you.

A cross-tradition compass distilled from twelve of the world's religious and
wisdom traditions. This file is the index: one line per page, in the form

    - [title](url): what the page covers

Generated at build time from the corpus, so it cannot drift from the site.
Built 2026-08-17. 254 pages listed, including 187 source texts.

## Scope and honest limits

- This index covers the **English** pages. The site serves nine UI languages
  (en, es, fr, de, zh-Hans, ar, hi, ja, he), but the source-text layer has no
  translations in any locale, so a nine-language index would advertise coverage
  that does not exist. (The JSON API itself IS localized as of 2026-08-15 —
  `/api/{lang}/…` — but single-book documents are not, for the same reason.) Translated pages are at
  /{lang}/… and disclose their own translation status on the page.
- The union compass is one structured reading, not neutral ground above the
  traditions, and not a replacement for any tradition's own. Where traditions
  contradict each other the contradiction is recorded, not resolved.
- Licence: content is CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribute as
  "distill.family — cross-tradition compass distillation, 2026."

## Site pages

- [Distill.family](https://distill.family/en): Twelve traditions, what they share and where each stands alone — entry point to the compass, the map and the twelve tradition compasses.
- [The twelve traditions](https://distill.family/en/traditions): Index of all twelve, each with its primary scripture, principle count and source texts. No tradition is privileged.
- [Cross-tradition map](https://distill.family/en/map): Hub for the comparative layer: where traditions converge, where they genuinely disagree, and the terms each keeps untranslated.
- [Convergence matrix](https://distill.family/en/map/convergence): 29 themes across 12 traditions, showing how many attest each — and preserving the fact that a shared claim often rests on incompatible reasons.
- [Held tensions](https://distill.family/en/map/divergence): 13 points where the traditions contradict one another on something each treats as decisive — the self, the ultimate, grace against effort, time.
- [Preserved jewels](https://distill.family/en/map/jewels): 41 untranslatable terms kept in their own language — hesed, anatta, wu wei, ren, ahimsa — because the English equivalent loses the thing.
- [Visualisations](https://distill.family/en/map/visualize): Interactive views of the same comparative data: themes, tradition families, and held tensions.
- [Themes visualised](https://distill.family/en/map/visualize/themes): The 29 convergence themes plotted by how broadly each is attested across the twelve traditions.
- [Tensions visualised](https://distill.family/en/map/visualize/tensions): The 13 held tensions plotted by which traditions take which side.
- [Traditions visualised](https://distill.family/en/map/visualize/traditions): How the twelve cluster by family resemblance and shared themes.
- [The compass](https://distill.family/en/compass): Twelve human questions — anger, grief, justice, death, money, forgiveness — each answered from all twelve traditions side by side.
- [Build your own compass](https://distill.family/en/compass/wizard): Pick a concern, a lens and a tension, and get a compass assembled from the corpus. Shareable by URL.
- [About](https://distill.family/en/about): What this project is, who made it, how it is licensed, and how to get in touch.
- [Methodology](https://distill.family/en/about/methodology): How the principles were distilled: four layers from per-text statements up to cross-tradition themes, and how attestation is scored.
- [Standpoint](https://distill.family/en/about/standpoint): Owned pluralism, stated rather than assumed. Convergence is evidence; so is divergence. Most traditions reject this standpoint, and that is acknowledged.
- [Origins](https://distill.family/en/about/origins): The methodology began on a single-tradition project and was extended cross-tradition. The transparent history, including what that inheritance implies.
- [The JSON API](https://distill.family/en/about/api): Human-readable documentation for the JSON API: the envelope every response shares, the endpoints and what each returns, the OpenAPI description, and how the nine languages work.
- [Search](https://distill.family/en/search): Full-text search across every principle, tradition, theme and jewel on the site.
- [Privacy](https://distill.family/en/privacy): What this site collects, which is close to nothing, and what it does with it.

## Compass questions

Twelve human questions, each answered from all twelve traditions side by side.

- [How should I handle anger?](https://distill.family/en/compass/anger): When fury rises, what do twelve traditions counsel?
- [How should I treat the stranger?](https://distill.family/en/compass/stranger): The outsider arrives. What do ancient wisdoms demand?
- [When is it right to tell hard truths?](https://distill.family/en/compass/truth): Truth can heal or wound. When should it be spoken?
- [How do I resist greed?](https://distill.family/en/compass/greed): Desire whispers "more." What do the traditions answer?
- [How should I handle deep disagreement?](https://distill.family/en/compass/disagreement): When worldviews clash, what does wisdom counsel?
- [When should I forgive?](https://distill.family/en/compass/forgiveness): You have been wronged. What now?
- [How do I carry grief?](https://distill.family/en/compass/grief): Loss has come. How do the traditions walk with you?
- [How should I think about death?](https://distill.family/en/compass/death): The certainty we avoid. What do the traditions face?
- [What does hospitality require?](https://distill.family/en/compass/hospitality): A guest arrives. What does ancient wisdom demand?
- [How do I live with uncertainty?](https://distill.family/en/compass/uncertainty): The future is unknown. How do the traditions hold not-knowing?
- [What makes a good death?](https://distill.family/en/compass/good-death): When death comes, what does "dying well" mean?
- [What does justice demand?](https://distill.family/en/compass/justice): Scales out of balance. What do the traditions require?

## Traditions, principles and source texts

### Buddhism (Theravāda) — Dhammapada · Pali Canon nikāyas
- [Buddhism (Theravāda)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada): Mind is primary, craving is the origin of suffering, and the Eightfold Path is walked by one's own effort. Non-harm, ethical restraint, and a liberation no one can confer on another.
- [Buddhism (Theravāda) — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/principles): The full set of 17 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Buddhism (Theravāda) — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books): Index of the 30 source texts behind those principles.
- [Dhammapada Chapter I — The Twin-Verses (vv. 1–20)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-twin-verses): The Dhammapada opens on its governing thesis: mind precedes all things. Hatred is conquered only by non-hatred, and practice outweighs profession.
- [Dhammapada Chapter II — On Earnestness (vv. 21–32)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/on-earnestness): Heedfulness is the path to the deathless. Diligence and restraint build a refuge no flood carries away; the wise prize it over vanity.
- [Dhammapada Chapter III — Thought (vv. 33–43)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/thought): The mind is restless and hard to hold, but a guarded, well-directed mind wins freedom — and decides our greatest harm or our greatest help.
- [Dhammapada Chapter IV — Flowers (vv. 44–59)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/flowers): Death seizes the distracted pleasure-gatherer. Live harmlessly, watch your own faults, and let deeds match words: virtue's fragrance outlasts all.
- [Dhammapada Chapter V — The Fool (vv. 60–75)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-fool): The fool clings to a self and possessions he does not own. Deeds ripen, and evil tastes sweet only until its fruit turns bitter.
- [Dhammapada Chapter VI — The Wise Man (Paṇḍita) (vv. 76–89)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-wise-man): Welcome the one who shows you your faults. The wise fashion themselves, choose good company, and stand unshaken by fortune's extremes.
- [Dhammapada Chapter VII — The Venerable (Arhat) (vv. 90–99)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-venerable): Liberation is the end of suffering and of rebirth. The unconditioned is reached by stilling craving, and true knowledge issues in quietude.
- [Dhammapada Chapter VIII — The Thousands (vv. 100–115)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-thousands): One meaningful word outweighs a thousand empty ones. Self-conquest is the supreme victory, and a day of insight outweighs a barren century.
- [Dhammapada Chapter IX — Evil (vv. 116–128)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/evil): Hasten toward good and turn from evil. Deeds ripen on delay, none too small to matter, and no place in the cosmos shelters anyone from their own.
- [Dhammapada Chapter X — Punishment (vv. 129–145)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/punishment): All beings fear death and love life, so harm none. Cruelty rebounds on its doer; inner purity, not outward austerity, makes the holy one.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XI — Old Age (vv. 146–156)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/old-age): The body perishes and is no fit object of clinging. Craving builds the house of rebirth and its extinction is freedom; a world afire demands urgency.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XII — Self (vv. 157–166)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/self): The self is its own master and its own refuge. Reform yourself before instructing others — no one can purify another.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XIII — The World (vv. 167–178)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-world): See the world as a bubble and a mirage. Rouse yourself to virtue: the first step in holiness surpasses all worldly sovereignty.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XIV — The Buddha (the Awakened) (vv. 179–196)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-buddha): Avoid evil, do good, purify the mind — the teaching of all the Awakened. Human birth is rare, and desire is never satisfied.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XV — Happiness (vv. 197–208)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/happiness): True happiness is dwelling unafflicted among the afflicted. Own nothing and contend for nothing: contentment is wealth, and peace the highest joy.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XVI — Pleasure (vv. 209–220)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/pleasure): Grasping at pleasure forsakes the real aim. Attachment is the fetter from which grief and fear are born; seek neither the pleasant nor the unpleasant.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XVII — Anger (vv. 221–234)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/anger): Anger is to be relinquished rather than expressed. Conquer each vice by its opposite — anger by love, greed by giving — and stay steady under blame.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XVIII — Impurity (vv. 235–255)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/impurity): Death is near, so purify now. Your own deeds defile or refine you, ignorance is the worst taint, and the faults to watch are your own.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XIX — The Just (vv. 256–272)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-just): Justice is equity, not coercion. Titles are earned by virtue rather than outward marks, and nobility means compassion and doing no harm.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XX — The Way (vv. 273–289)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-way): There is one way — the Eightfold Path — and you must walk it yourself. See the three marks of existence and uproot craving entirely.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXI — Miscellaneous (vv. 290–305)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/miscellaneous): Trade a lesser pleasure for a greater good. Harm sought for pleasure recoils, watchfulness ends craving, and solitude perfects the practice.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXII — The Downward Course (vv. 306–319)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-downward-course): Falsehood leads downward, and the robe without restraint condemns rather than saves. Discipline must be wholehearted, never slack.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXIII — The Elephant (vv. 320–333)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-elephant): Endure abuse as the tamed elephant endures the arrow. Taming oneself surpasses every other mastery; seek a wise companion, or walk alone.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXIV — Thirst (vv. 334–359)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/thirst): Thirst is the self-renewing root of rebirth and suffering. Uproot it at the source; the subtlest fetter is attachment to family and possessions.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXV — The Bhikshu (Mendicant) (vv. 360–382)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-bhikshu): Restraint in every sense defines the mendicant. Kindness, meditation and knowledge carry one across the flood — the self is its own refuge.
- [Dhammapada Chapter XXVI — The Brāhmaṇa (Arhat) (vv. 383–423)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/the-brahmana): The true brahmana is made by attainment, not by birth: blameless, non-retaliating, harming no being, every fetter cut, and deeply wise.
- [Dīgha Nikāya (DN) — Selected Suttas](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/digha-nikaya): The graduated path of virtue, concentration and wisdom; the Four Noble Truths; mindfulness as the one way; and a vision of righteous, poverty-relieving rule.
- [Majjhima Nikāya — Representative Suttas (MN 6, 26, 44, 63, 72)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/majjhima-nikaya): The path is a diagnostic, not a metaphysics. The liberated one escapes every predication, and the awakening came by self-effort and was nearly not taught.
- [Saṃyutta Nikāya — Connected Discourses (selected)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/samyutta-nikaya): Dependent origination as the middle doctrine, the aggregates as not-self, and liberation as the cessation of clinging — never annihilation.
- [Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN) — The Numerical Discourses](https://distill.family/en/traditions/buddhism-theravada/books/anguttara-nikaya): Three roots of action and their reversal; karma as conditioned rather than mechanical; and a goal that is liberation, personally verified, not heaven.

### Islam — Quran
- [Islam](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran): One God, merciful and just, who has sent one message through a chain of prophets. Prayer joined to almsgiving, unconditional justice, and honour measured by God-consciousness rather than lineage.
- [Islam — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/principles): The full set of 17 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Islam — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books): Index of the 13 source texts behind those principles.
- [The Opening & Tawḥīd (the recited core)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/opening-and-tawhid): God is one, eternal and incomparable, at once Merciful and Just. Worship and the seeking of guidance belong to God alone, and faith is freely turned to.
- [Creation, the Last Day & the short Meccan suras](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/creation-and-last-day): A certain Day of Reckoning weighs every deed. True religion shows itself as care for the orphan, the poor and the captive — and honesty in dealings.
- [The Prophets & the chain of revelation](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/prophets-and-revelation): One continuous message sent through a chain of prophets. The faithful meet rejection with patience and forgiveness; history is a theatre of mercy and warning.
- [God's signs, mercy & the call to faith (Meccan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/signs-mercy-and-call): The world and the self are signs of one Creator who is intimately near. Mercy embraces all things, and each soul bears no burden but its own.
- [The Cow & the foundations of the community (Q 2)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/the-cow-foundations): There is no compulsion in religion. Righteousness is faith made active in charity, prayer and patience, and God lays no burden beyond a soul's capacity.
- [The Family of Imran, Women & social justice (Medinan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/family-women-justice): Justice is unconditional, owed even against oneself and one's kin. All people share one origin, and honour is by God-consciousness, not lineage.
- [The Table, covenant & law (Medinan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/table-covenant-law): Keep your covenants and cooperate only in good. Justice is owed even to those you dislike, and the taking of one life assaults all humanity.
- [Worship, charity & community order (Medinan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/worship-charity-community): Prayer joined to almsgiving; wealth as a trust to be spent rather than hoarded; and a community that decides by mutual consultation.
- [Patience, gratitude & the believer's heart](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/patience-gratitude-heart): Gratitude for countless bounties, and patient endurance in the assurance that ease follows hardship. Remembrance steadies the heart.
- [Al-Fātiḥa & Foundational Ayāt](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/al-fatiha-and-foundational-ayat): The Opening, the Throne Verse, and the Quran's own definition of true piety: faith made active in charity and patience, not ritual form alone.
- [Light, Mercy, Sovereignty](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/light-mercy-sovereignty): God as Light and as the ordering of an intelligible cosmos; every deed and every trace written down; mercy the first and recurring word.
- [Juzʾ ʿAmma per-ayah](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/juz-amma-per-ayah): The short closing suras: absolute oneness, a Day that weighs every atom's weight, and religion shown by care for the orphan and the poor.
- [Core Moral Ayāt](https://distill.family/en/traditions/islam-quran/books/core-moral-ayat): A widening circle of duty from worship to the stranger and the captive; economic integrity; speech and gaze as moral acts; humility as the becoming posture.

### Hinduism (Vedanta) — Bhagavad Gītā · Principal Upaniṣads
- [Hinduism (Vedanta)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta): The deathless Self is one with the absolute. Act without attachment to the fruit, do your own duty, and reach release through knowledge, devotion, and the equal vision of one Self in all beings.
- [Hinduism (Vedanta) — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/principles): The full set of 16 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Hinduism (Vedanta) — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books): Index of the 31 source texts behind those principles.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter I — The Distress of Arjuna (Arjun-Vishad)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/arjuna-vishada): The Gita opens in breakdown: right action can be agonisingly unclear, and recoil from harm is a real good that may still be mixed with confusion.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter II — The Doctrines (Sankhya-Yog)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/sankhya-yoga): The Self is deathless and unborn. Act without attachment to the fruit, and let equanimity — not reward-seeking ritual — be the mark of wisdom.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter III — Virtue in Work (Karma-Yog)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/karma-yoga): Action is unavoidable, so purify it rather than flee it. Selfless action sustains the world, and desire is the enemy of wisdom.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter IV — Religion of Knowledge (Jnana-Yog)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/jnana-yoga): The divine descends to restore order. Knowing that reality liberates from rebirth, and the freed act without bondage — action within inaction.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter V — Renouncing the Fruit of Works (Karmasanyasayog)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/karma-sannyasa): Detached action and renunciation reach the same goal, and action is the surer road. The equal vision sees one Self in all beings.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter VI — Self-Restraint (Atmasanyamayog)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/dhyana-yoga): One is one's own friend or enemy: raise the self by the self. Meditation asks moderation and an even mind, and no spiritual effort is ever lost.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter VII — Religion by Discernment (Jñāna-Vijñāna)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/jnana-vijnana): The One pervades and underlies all things yet transcends them. Illusion and the three qualities veil the truth, and true knowers are rare.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter VIII — Devotion to the One Supreme (Akṣara-Para-Brahma)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/aksara-brahman): Constant remembrance shapes the soul's destiny. Beyond all cosmic cycles abides the Imperishable, and reaching it ends rebirth.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter IX — The Kingly Knowledge (Rāja-Vidyā Rāja-Guhya)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/raja-vidya): The Lord pervades all yet is unattached to all. Loving devotion, not reward-seeking ritual, is the saving path; grace is impartial yet answers love.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter X — The Heavenly Perfections (Vibhūti-Yoga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/vibhuti-yoga): Every excellence points back to the One, who is seated in the heart of every creature. Loving devotion draws down the inner lamp of wisdom.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XI — The Vision of the Universal Form (Viśvarūpa-Darśana)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/visvarupa): The Absolute holds all worlds in a single Form. The Maker is also the Destroyer — the Lord is Time itself — and is known only by love and surrender.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XII — The Religion of Faith (Bhakti-Yoga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/bhakti-yoga): Loving devotion to the personal Lord is the dearest and most attainable path. The beloved devotee is compassionate, self-free, equable and steadfast.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XIII — The Field and the Knower (Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/ksetra-ksetrajna): The Self is the deathless knower behind the perishable body. Wisdom is a lived character, and seeing one Self alike in all is the highest road.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XIV — The Three Qualities (Guṇa-Traya-Vibhāga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/gunas): All embodied life is woven of three qualities. The one dominant at death shapes the next birth, and liberation lies in transcending all three.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XV — Attaining the Supreme Person (Puruṣottama-Yoga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/purushottama): The world-tree of bondage is felled by detachment. The Lord is the indwelling vital power of all life, beyond both perishable and imperishable.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XVI — The Divine and the Undivine (Daivāsura-Sampad-Vibhāga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/daiva-asura): Two endowments shape human destiny, the divine and the demonic. Denial of moral order is the root of the second; lust, wrath and greed are its gates.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XVII — The Threefold Faith (Śraddhā-Traya-Vibhāga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/sraddhatraya): A person is made by their faith. The whole religious life is graded by the three qualities, and true austerity is inward and disinterested.
- [Bhagavad Gītā Chapter XVIII — Deliverance and Renunciation (Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/moksha-sannyasa): Renounce the fruit, not the act. Do your own duty rather than another's, see one Life in all lives, and end in surrender to grace.
- [Īśā (Isa) Upanishad — The Lord-Covered World](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/isa): See the whole world as pervaded by the Lord. Act without being defiled — renunciation within engagement — and seeing all beings in the Self ends grief.
- [Kaṭha (Katha) Upanishad — Nachiketas and Death](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/katha): Nachiketas at the door of death: choose the good over the merely pleasant. The Self is deathless, known by grace and purity rather than by argument.
- [Kena Upanishad — "By Whom Directed?"](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/kena): Brahman is the power behind every power, beyond the grasp of mind and senses. True knowing is knowing that you cannot finitely know it.
- [Muṇḍaka Upanishad — The Knowledge of the Imperishable](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/mundaka): Distinguish higher knowledge from lower. Works alone are unsafe boats; Om is the bow, the self the arrow, and truth alone conquers.
- [Māṇḍūkya Upanishad — Om and the Four States](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/mandukya): All this is Brahman, and this Self is Brahman. Three ordinary states and a Fourth beyond them, mapped by the syllable AUM.
- [Śvetāśvatara Upanishad — The One Lord and the Brahma-Wheel](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/svetasvatara): One God is the world's single cause, his power hidden in the qualities. Yoga is concrete practice — posture, breath, place, perseverance.
- [Aitareya Upanishad — Ātman, World, and Consciousness](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/aitareya): In the beginning the Self alone was. The Self is the 'who' behind every faculty, and consciousness itself is Brahman.
- [Taittirīya Upanishad — Truth, the Five Sheaths, and Bliss](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/taittiriya): Speak truth, practise dharma, honour parents, teacher and guest. The self has five sheaths, Brahman is bliss, and no guest is refused.
- [Praśna Upanishad — Six Questions to Pippalāda](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/prasna): Six questions put to a teacher: discipline before doctrine, breath as chief of the personal powers, and thinking that shapes one's destiny.
- [Chāndogya Upanishad — Selections (Tat Tvam Asi · Bhūmā · The City of Brahman)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/chandogya-selections): 'That art thou' — the canonical identification of the self with Brahman. Being alone is, the Infinite alone is bliss, and the heart holds the whole world.
- [Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad — Selections (Yājñavalkya · Maitreyī · Neti-Neti · the Antaryāmin)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/brihadaranyaka-selections): 'I am Brahman'; the Self as the true object of every love; the inner ruler present in everything yet other than it, approached only by 'not this, not that'.
- [Kauṣītaki Upanishad — Prāṇa, the Conscious Self](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/kausitaki): Two paths after death, one returning and one not. Breath is Brahman, and consciousness is the indispensable condition of all cognition.
- [Maitri Upanishad — The Six-Limbed Yoga and the Knower of the Field](https://distill.family/en/traditions/hinduism-vedanta/books/maitri): The vanity of embodied life prompts the search. The body is a chariot whose driver is not truly a doer, and a six-limbed yoga reaches the source.

### Judaism — Tanakh
- [Judaism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh): One God, the human made in God's image, and a covenant binding God to a people for the blessing of all. Justice is the non-negotiable core of religion, and return is always open.
- [Judaism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/principles): The full set of 15 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Judaism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books): Index of the 16 source texts behind those principles.
- [Genesis (Bereshit)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/torah-genesis): One God creates a good and ordered world and makes the human in his image — dignity, breath and sacred life — then binds himself by covenant to all life.
- [Exodus · Leviticus · Numbers](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/torah-exodus-leviticus-numbers): The God who hears and liberates the oppressed. Keep the Sabbath, hold the moral floor, and be holy — where holiness is love of neighbour and stranger.
- [Deuteronomy (Devarim)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/torah-deuteronomy): God is one, to be loved with the whole self. Torah is transmitted by being lived, is within human reach, and sets a choice: choose life.
- [Former Prophets — Joshua · Judges · Samuel · Kings](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/neviim-former-prophets): Covenant fidelity is a decision renewed in each generation. God alone is sovereign, and the moral law stands over all power — even kings are accountable.
- [Isaiah (Yeshayahu)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/neviim-isaiah): God rejects worship divorced from justice; true religion frees and feeds. History bends toward universal peace, and the one who returns is restored.
- [Jeremiah · Ezekiel](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/neviim-jeremiah-ezekiel): An everlasting love and a covenant written on the heart. Each person is responsible for their own life, and God desires return, not death.
- [The Twelve Minor Prophets (Trei Asar)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/neviim-the-twelve): God desires mercy and the knowledge of God, not sacrifice. Justice must flow like a mighty stream: do justly, love mercy, walk humbly.
- [Psalms (Tehillim)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/ketuvim-psalms): The blessed life is rooted in delight in God's instruction. God is present through the valley of shadow, and praise and lament alike belong before him.
- [Wisdom — Proverbs · Job · Ecclesiastes](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/ketuvim-wisdom): Reverence is the beginning of wisdom, whose ways are peace. Human knowing is finite before an unsearchable Creator, and glib certainty is condemned.
- [The Five Scrolls (Hamesh Megillot)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/ketuvim-five-scrolls): Love is among the strongest forces in creation, and loyal kindness crosses every boundary. Hope endures within catastrophe.
- [Daniel · Ezra–Nehemiah · Chronicles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/ketuvim-daniel-ezra-nehemiah-chronicles): Faithfulness under coercive power, even without deliverance — and a community re-founded on Torah read publicly and made understandable.
- [Decalogue · Shema · Holiness Code — Per-Verse (Ex 20, Deut 5, Deut 6:4–9, Lev 19:1–18)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/decalogue-shema-holiness-per-verse): The God of liberation alone is worshipped; the whole person owes God love; Sabbath rest is owed to all who labour; love your neighbour as yourself.
- [Imago Dei & Covenant — Per-Verse (Gen 1:26–28, 2:7, 9:6, 12:1–3, 15, Ex 19:5–6, Deut 7:6–11)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/imago-dei-and-covenant-per-verse): Every human bears God's image and human life is inviolable. God binds himself by unilateral covenant, and election is for the blessing of all peoples.
- [Prophetic Ethical Core — Per-Verse (Amos 5, Mic 6, Isa 1, Isa 58, Jer 31, Ezek 18, Hos 6)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/prophetic-ethical-core-per-verse): Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly. Ritual cannot substitute for righteousness, guilt is not inherited, and return is always open.
- [Psalms & Wisdom — Per-Verse (Ps 1, 8, 15, 23, 51, 90, 139; Prov 3, 8, 22; Job 38, 42; Eccl 3, 12)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/psalms-and-wisdom-per-verse): The human is small and honoured, mortal and known. Access to the holy is gated by moral character, and a broken heart outweighs burnt offering.
- [Daniel 7 — Apocalyptic Vision (Per-Verse)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/judaism-tanakh/books/daniel-apocalyptic): All imperial power is relativised and judged. The kingdom is given to those set apart by holiness, not seized by power, and persecution is real but bounded.

### Christianity — Bible (WEB 66-book Protestant canon + Catholic deuterocanon)
- [Christianity](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible): Humanity bears God's image and its dignity is inviolable. Love of God and neighbour sums the whole Law, salvation is grace rather than achievement, and hope rests on the resurrection.
- [Christianity — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/principles): The full set of 15 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Christianity — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books): Index of the 19 source texts behind those principles.
- [Group 1 — The Pentateuch / Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/pentateuch): Humanity bears the image of God; creation is good, relational and finite; and God acts through covenant for the blessing of all peoples.
- [Group 2 — The Historical Books (Joshua–Esther)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/historical-books): The covenant must be chosen household by household. God looks at the heart, and power is accountable to God's word.
- [Group 3 — Wisdom & Poetry (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/wisdom-and-poetry): The human is dignified yet finite. Wisdom begins in reverence and trust rather than self-sufficiency, and understanding has limits to be accepted.
- [Group 4 — The Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/major-prophets): Worship is empty without justice for the oppressed. Redemption comes through a suffering servant, and God promises an interior, given new heart.
- [Group 5 — The Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/minor-prophets): What God requires is justice, mercy and humility. God's mercy is wide enough to reach the outsider, and the righteous live by faith.
- [Group 6 — The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/synoptic-gospels): The kingdom belongs to the lowly. Love of God and neighbour sums the whole Law, and that love extends to enemies, the least and the lost.
- [Group 7 — The Gospel of John](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/gospel-of-john): The Word became flesh. God's love is the free origin of salvation, and the command is to love one another even to the point of self-giving.
- [Group 8 — The Acts of the Apostles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/acts): The church as a communion of shared life, where love takes economic form and goods are shared so that no one is in need.
- [Group 9 — The Pauline Epistles (Romans, 1–2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1–2 Thessalonians, 1–2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/pauline-epistles): All have sinned, and salvation is grace received rather than achievement. Christ's self-emptying is the pattern of love, and in Christ all are one.
- [Group 10 — The General Epistles (Hebrews, James, 1–2 Peter, 1–2–3 John, Jude)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/general-epistles): Faith is trust in the unseen, proved by works. True religion is care for the vulnerable; God is love, and love of God is inseparable from love of neighbour.
- [Group 11 — The Revelation of John](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/revelation): History culminates in a renewed creation free of suffering and death.
- [Group 12 — Whole-Canon Synthesis Seam](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/canon-synthesis-seam): The resurrection as the hinge of the faith and the ground of hope; God lifting up the lowly; and life set before the human as a present choice.
- [The Decalogue — Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21 (per-verse)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/decalogue-per-verse): Covenant law grounded in prior liberation: exclusive worship, egalitarian Sabbath rest, the inviolability of person and family, and a law reaching desire.
- [The Synoptic Ethical Core — per-verse (Matt 5–7, Mark 12, Luke 6, 10)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/sermon-on-the-mount-per-verse): The kingdom inverts the order of value. Love of enemy is the height of the law, and neighbour is defined by mercy in deed, not by category.
- [The Love Chapter — 1 Corinthians 13 (per-verse)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/love-chapter-per-verse): Without love, all spiritual achievement is nullified. Love has a definable character — patient, kind, not score-keeping — and it alone is permanent.
- [The Pauline Ethical Core — per-verse (Rom 12–13, Gal 5, Phil 2)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/pauline-ethics-per-verse): Worship as embodied and interior; non-retaliation and overcoming evil with good; freedom for love-service; and humility that counts others better.
- [Wisdom & Psalms (and the OT ethical core) — selections per-verse](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/wisdom-and-psalms-selections): One God loved with the whole person, holiness taking the form of horizontal justice, and a God who desires a contrite heart rather than sacrifice.
- [Deuterocanon I — Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/deuterocanon-wisdom-and-sirach): The human created in God's image and incorruptible; wisdom as divine self-expression; and honour of parents extended to care for the aged.
- [Deuterocanon II — Tobit, Judith, 1–2 Maccabees](https://distill.family/en/traditions/christianity-bible/books/deuterocanon-tobit-judith-maccabees): Almsgiving bound to the giver's own salvation, the negative Golden Rule stated outright, and faithful witness under coercion.

### Sikhism — Guru Granth Sahib
- [Sikhism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib): One formless God whose order holds all things. Remember the Name, live as a householder rather than a recluse, earn honestly, and treat caste, gender and creed as abolished before God.
- [Sikhism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/principles): The full set of 13 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Sikhism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books): Index of the 13 source texts behind those principles.
- [Mūl Mantar — the Preamble / Creed (Ik Onkār…)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/mul-mantar): The creed that opens the Guru Granth Sahib: God is one, true, formless and eternal, and is approached by grace.
- [Japjī — Pauris I–VIII](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/japji-i-viii): The intellect cannot reach God; the way is acceptance of his order. Deliverance is by grace, and remembrance of the Name at dawn is the core practice.
- [Japjī — Pauris IX–XV (Hearing & Obeying the Name)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/japji-ix-xv): Hearing the Name dignifies all and surpasses ritual. Obedient surrender brings wisdom, and salvation is communal — one is saved with one's family.
- [Japjī — Pauris XVI–XXVII](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/japji-xvi-xxvii): God is limitless and unknowable. The mind is purified by love of the Name rather than by ritual, and righteousness born of mercy upholds the world.
- [Japjī — Pauris XXVIII–XXXVIII + Slok](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/japji-xxviii-xxxviii-slok): True religion is inner virtue, not outward garb — the householder's path. The earth is a temple, and we are judged by our acts.
- [Āsā kī Vār — Selected Pauris & Sloks](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/asa-ki-war): God creates, names and pervades all as truth. A scathing critique of hypocrisy: honour is weighed by virtue, and truthful living defeats the age's falsehood.
- [Rahirās (Sodar) & Sohila — the Sunset and Bedtime Banis](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/rahiras-sohila): The sunset and bedtime prayers: God watches over all, the cosmos itself is the true worship, and mortality is met with remembrance rather than dread.
- [Gurū Nanak — Life Teachings & Hymns (Equality, Honest Living, One Humanity)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/nanak-teachings): All people are equal — caste, gender and religious tribe abolished before the one God. Honest livelihood is sacred, and exploitation defiles.
- [Anand Sāhib — the Song of Bliss (Gurū Amar Das)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/anand-sahib-guru-amar-das): Bliss is finding the True Guru. The Name sustains the soul, the five passions yield to attunement rather than effort, and holiness is communal.
- [Sukhmani Sāhib — the Psalm of Peace (Gurū Arjan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/sukhmani-guru-arjan): Remembrance of God is the central practice and flowers into service. Grace reverses every human ranking, and one is saved in the company of saints.
- [Bawan Akhari — the Acrostic on the Fifty-Two Letters (Gurū Arjan)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/bawan-akhari-guru-arjan): The divine Guru is the totality of human relation. Divine knowledge lies not in words, debate or religious garb, but in the heart that obeys God's order.
- [Sloks of Gurū Teg Bahadur (Mahalla 9)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/salok-mahalla-9-guru-teg-bahadur): Wealth, family and world itself depart; only God remains. Equipoise under weal and woe, and a fearlessness that neither cows others nor is cowed.
- [Jaap Sāhib and the Opening of Akāl Ustat (Gurū Gobind Singh)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/sikhism-guru-granth-sahib/books/jaap-sahib-guru-gobind-singh): One God beyond every human distinction, contained in ant and elephant alike. A litany of names, none final and all true, grounding righteous courage.

### Taoism — Tao Te Ching · Zhuangzi
- [Taoism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism): The Dao is the nameless source and course of all. Act by not-forcing, return to simplicity, let the soft overcome the hard — and govern by governing as little as possible.
- [Taoism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/principles): The full set of 18 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Taoism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books): Index of the 11 source texts behind those principles.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 1–10](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch01-10): The Dao is nameless, empty and the impartial source of all. Act by not-forcing; the highest good is like water, benefiting all and contending with none.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 11–20](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch11-20): Emptiness is what is useful. Prefer simplicity to sensory excess and cleverness; the best government is nearly invisible, and forced morality signals a lost Dao.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 21–30](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch21-30): The Dao is the formless source of all forms. Humility prevails and self-display defeats itself; the sage saves all and discards no one.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 31–40](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch31-40): Not-forcing accomplishes everything. The soft overcomes the hard, the Dao moves by reversal, and arms are instruments of ill omen — even victory is mourned.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 41–50](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch41-50): The Dao is known by subtraction, not by accumulation. Contentment is enduring sufficiency, and the sage has no fixed self and is good to all alike.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 51–60](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch51-60): The Dao nourishes all without claiming or controlling. Govern by non-action — multiplied laws breed disorder — and the one who knows does not speak.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 61–70](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch61-70): The low place leads. Three treasures — gentleness, economy, humility; handle things while they are small, and requite injury with kindness.
- [Tao Te Ching — Chapters 71–81](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/ttc-ch71-81): Knowing one's not-knowing is highest. Soft and weak outlast firm and strong, heaven's way levels excess and lack, and the sage hoards nothing.
- [Zhuangzi (Kwang-tze) — Inner Chapters 1–7](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/zhuangzi-inner-chapters): Free-and-easy wandering beyond great and small; the relativity of all judgments; the mirror-mind emptied of self; and death as transformation, not evil.
- [Zhuangzi (Kwang-tze) — Outer Chapters 8–22](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/zhuangzi-outer-chapters): Civilisation as the destroyer of perfect virtue, the scheming mind that voids simplicity, and a Dao immanent even in the ant and the excrement.
- [Zhuangzi (Kwang-tze) — Miscellaneous Chapters 23–33](https://distill.family/en/traditions/taoism/books/zhuangzi-miscellaneous-chapters): Life is worth more than the kingdom. Authenticity over ritual form, guarding life by simplicity, and language that says without asserting.

### Confucianism — Analects · Great Learning · Doctrine of the Mean · Mencius
- [Confucianism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism): Humaneness is the master virtue and filial reverence its root. Self-cultivation is the root of all order, reciprocity the one word for a lifetime, and nobility is earned rather than inherited.
- [Confucianism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/principles): The full set of 15 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Confucianism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books): Index of the 23 source texts behind those principles.
- [The Great Learning (Dàxué 大學) — The Root and the Eight-Step Chain](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/great-learning): Self-cultivation is the root of all order, for everyone. Three aims of learning, and an eight-step chain running from inner knowing to a tranquil world.
- [The Doctrine of the Mean (Zhōngyōng 中庸) — Heaven-Conferred Nature, the Mean, and Sincerity](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/doctrine-of-the-mean): Morality is rooted in a Heaven-conferred nature. Equilibrium and harmony are the root and path of action, and sincerity is the way of Heaven.
- [Mencius (Mèngzǐ 孟子) — Benevolent Government, the Four Sprouts, and the People First](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/mencius): A ruler's themes are humaneness and rightness, never profit. Human nature is innately good, and the people are the most important element in a nation.
- [Analects Book I — Hsio R (Learning, the Root)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-01): Filial reverence is the root of humaneness. Becoming fully human is lifelong, joyful self-cultivation, and humane government is reverent and people-loving.
- [Analects Book II — Wei Chang (Government by Virtue)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-02): Govern by moral force and ritual rather than by punishment. The moral life is a lifelong arc that ends in free conformity to what is right.
- [Analects Book III — Pa Yih (Ritual and Its Inner Substance)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-03): Ritual is the vessel and humaneness its content. Heaven is the final standard, beyond which there is no appeal.
- [Analects Book IV — Le Jin (Abiding in Humaneness)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-04): Humaneness endures poverty and prosperity alike. The whole doctrine is loyalty and reciprocity, and the noble mind is oriented to rightness, not gain.
- [Analects Book V — Kung-ye Ch'ang (Portraits and the Seed of Reciprocity)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-05): Conduct, not words, is the test and the shape of character — and the reciprocity rule appears here in seed.
- [Analects Book VI — Yung Yey (Joy, Wisdom, and the Positive Form of Ren)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-06): Joy is independent of wealth. The Way is known, then loved, then delighted in; humaneness is establishing and enlarging others as oneself.
- [Analects Book VII — Shu R (The Transmitter)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-07): The Master transmits rather than invents, and teaches all who are eager. Any companion can be a teacher — emulate their good, learn from their fault.
- [Analects Book VIII — T'ai-po (The Forming Arts)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-08): The Odes, ritual and music together form the person, and the cultivated carry humaneness as a lifelong, immovable burden.
- [Analects Book IX — Tsze Han (The Settled Self)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-09): The cultivated self is settled and inviolable. Faithfulness and sincerity come first, and faults are to be abandoned without fear.
- [Analects Book X — Heang Tang (Ritual Lived in the Body)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-10): Ritual lived in the body — and humaneness shown as care for persons over property.
- [Analects Book XI — Hsien Tsin (Disciples and the Living)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-11): Attend to the living and to human life before the spirits and the dead. The Mean is the standard, and the cultivated life is lived gladly.
- [Analects Book XII — Yen Yuan (Ren Defined, Roles Rectified, Trust as the Ground)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-12): Humaneness is self-mastery returning to ritual, and love of persons. Government rests on the people's trust, and order on a ruler who rectifies himself.
- [Analects Book XIII — Tsze-lu (Rectification of Names)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-13): The rectification of names. Rule by self-rectification, enrich the people and then teach them, and seek harmony rather than uniformity.
- [Analects Book XIV — Hsien Wan (Requite Injury with Justice)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-14): Requite injury with justice — not with kindness, and not with injury. Self-cultivation radiates outward, to others and to all the people.
- [Analects Book XV — Wei Ling Kung (The Single Word for a Lifetime)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-15): Reciprocity is the single word to be practised for a lifetime. Never injure humaneness, even at the cost of life; teaching is open to every class.
- [Analects Book XVI — Ke She (The Threefold Awe)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-16): The noble mind lives in awe of Heaven, of the great, and of the sages — and a people is drawn by virtue, not by force.
- [Analects Book XVII — Yang Ho (Nature, Practice, and Silent Heaven)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-17): Nature is shared, and practice and learning make the difference. Ritual is its inner meaning, and Heaven is a silent, productive moral order.
- [Analects Book XVIII — Wei Tsze (The Engaged Sage)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-18): The sage engages the world and refuses withdrawal.
- [Analects Book XIX — Tsze-chang (The Disciples)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-19): The scholar's posture — ready, righteous, learning daily — and the trust that must precede both labour and remonstrance.
- [Analects Book XX — Yao Yueh (The Closing Charge)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/confucianism/books/analects-book-20): The closing charge: know Heaven, know ritual, know the force of words. The ruler bears the people's faults, and humane government is five excellent things.

### Jainism — Akārāṅga · Kalpa · Sūtrakṛtāṅga · Uttarādhyayana
- [Jainism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism): Radical non-violence toward all life, grounded in the reality of every soul. Non-possession, truthful speech, and a liberation self-won by stopping and shedding karma — no saviour, no grace.
- [Jainism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/principles): The full set of 15 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Jainism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books): Index of the 8 source texts behind those principles.
- [Ākārāṅga Sūtra I.1 — Knowledge of the Weapon (Sattha-pariṇṇā)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/akaranga-knowledge-of-the-weapon): The soul is real, plural, and transmigrates by its deeds. All six classes of life are sentient and feel pain, so the wise injure no living being.
- [Ākārāṅga Sūtra I.4–5 — Righteousness; Essence of the World](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/akaranga-righteousness-and-the-self): Non-violence is the eternal law declared by all the Jinas, resting on reciprocity: pain is unwelcome to every being.
- [Ākārāṅga Sūtra II.15 — The Five Great Vows (Mahāvrata)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/akaranga-five-great-vows): The five great vows — total non-violence first, then truthful speech, non-stealing, chastity, and non-possession.
- [Kalpa Sūtra — Mahāvīra's Renunciation & Asceticism (Lives of the Jinas)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/kalpa-renunciation-and-asceticism): Liberation won by severe voluntary asceticism and equanimity, by stopping the influx of karma. The founder is exemplar, not saviour.
- [Sūtrakṛtāṅga Sūtra I.1 — The Doctrine (Samaya)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/sutrakritanga-the-doctrine): Possession and killing bind the soul. Wealth and kin cannot protect, and moral responsibility is non-transferable and inescapable.
- [Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 1–2 — On Discipline; The Twenty-Two Hardships (Parīṣaha)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/uttaradhyayana-discipline-and-hardships): The self is the hardest thing to subdue, and subduing it is the whole task. Twenty-two hardships borne with equanimity — including the pleasant ones.
- [Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10 — The Leaf of the Tree](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/uttaradhyayana-leaf-of-the-tree): Life is as fleeting as a falling leaf or a dew-drop, so do not be careless even for a moment. Human birth and the chance to practise are exceedingly rare.
- [Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 28, 33 — The Three Jewels & the Nature of Karma](https://distill.family/en/traditions/jainism/books/uttaradhyayana-jewels-and-karma): The road to liberation is the three jewels plus austerity. Karma is literally subtle matter binding the soul, and freedom is the soul cleared of it.

### Bahá'í Faith — Hidden Words · Aqdas · Gleanings (+ Seven Valleys + Iqan)
- [Bahá'í Faith](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai): The oneness of God, of religion, and of humanity. Progressive revelation, the independent investigation of truth, justice as the best-beloved of all things, and work undertaken as worship.
- [Bahá'í Faith — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/principles): The full set of 14 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Bahá'í Faith — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books): Index of the 10 source texts behind those principles.
- [The Hidden Words (Bahá'u'lláh)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/the-hidden-words): The pure, detached heart is the seat of the spiritual life. Justice is the best-beloved of all things, every soul is created noble, and deeds are the adorning.
- [Oneness of God](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/oneness-of-god): God is one, transcendent and unknowable in essence — and to know and draw near to God is the purpose of human life.
- [Progressive Revelation & the Oneness of Religion](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/progressive-revelation): Revelation is one, continuous and progressive. Religion exists to unite rather than divide, and its differences must not breed animosity.
- [Oneness of Humanity](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/oneness-of-humanity): Humanity is one family, and world citizenship stands above tribe and nation. Unity is the prerequisite of peace.
- [Justice & the Independent Investigation of Truth](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/justice-and-independent-truth): Justice is the best-beloved of all things and demands seeing for oneself. Wish not for others what you would not wish for yourself.
- [Work as Worship, Knowledge & the Family](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/work-knowledge-and-family): Work done in a spirit of service is worship, and the education of every child — daughter and son alike — is a binding duty of the family.
- [Detachment & the Heart](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/detachment-and-the-heart): The purified, detached heart is God's dwelling.
- [The Seven Valleys & The Four Valleys](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/seven-valleys-four-valleys): The spiritual life as a graded ascent through stations, ending in self-annihilation and the vision of God alone — and four kinds of seeker.
- [The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) — Selections](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/kitab-i-iqan-selections): Revelation as one progressive process, in which every Manifestation is rejected in its own age and every Manifestation foretells the next.
- [Gleanings (deeper): Soul · Society · Dual Nature](https://distill.family/en/traditions/bahai/books/gleanings-soul-society-dual-nature): The soul as an immortal sign of God; the human as dual-natured and morally choosing; humanity as one country; and just rule by collective consultation.

### Zoroastrianism — Avesta (Gathas · Yashts · Vendidad · Yasna Haptanghaiti)
- [Zoroastrianism](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism): One wise Lord, and a world in which every thought, word and deed sides with truth or with the Lie. Free moral choice, honest work as holiness, and a world that will be made wonderful again.
- [Zoroastrianism — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/principles): The full set of 16 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Zoroastrianism — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books): Index of the 9 source texts behind those principles.
- [Ahunavaiti Gāthā I — Yasna 28–30](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/ahunavaiti-i): Ahura Mazda is the one wise Lord and the source of all good. Creation cries for a protector, and each person must freely choose between the two ways.
- [Ahunavaiti Gāthā II — Yasna 31–34](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/ahunavaiti-ii): Free moral choice is given by God. Righteousness is grasped by the Good Mind, productive honest work is holy, and a reckoning is coming.
- [Ushtavaiti & Spenta-Mainyu Gāthās — Yasna 43–48](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/ushtavaiti-and-spenta-mainyu): The sole Creator of cosmos and moral order. Weal is open to whoever seeks righteousness, and the two spirits differ in thought, word, deed and soul.
- [Vohu-Khshathra & Vahishtoishti Gāthās — Yasna 49–51, 53](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/vohu-khshathra-vahishtoishti): The good Kingdom is the best thing, and is to be chosen. Power, wealth and labour are held righteously, and home-life rests on mutual righteousness.
- [Wider Avesta — Confession, Agriculture, and the Standing Formulas](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/wider-avesta-confession-and-ethics): The believer freely confesses and renounces. Good thoughts, good words, good deeds as the lived creed — and tilling the earth as holiness.
- [Yashts — Hormazd Yasht and Mihr Yasht (Yt. 1 & Yt. 10)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/hormazd-mithra-yashts): God's names as the strongest word and a daily protection; covenant as divine, binding its keeper toward every party; and an undeceivable guardian of oaths.
- [Yashts — Frawardin Yasht and Zamyad Yasht (Yt. 13 & Yt. 19)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/fravashis-and-khwarrah): The moral community extends across time, including those not yet born. The righteous sustain creation, and the world will be restored to deathless life.
- [Vendidad — Selections beyond Vd. 3 (the Earth, Vigilance, the Temptation)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/vendidad-selections): The Earth rejoices at faithful households and grieves at injustice. Worship, family and husbandry form one continuum of the good.
- [Yasna — The Creed and the Worship of the Seven Chapters (Y. 12; Y. 35–42)](https://distill.family/en/traditions/zoroastrianism/books/yasna-creed-and-haptanghaiti): The community's defining praise is the ethical triad. The Kingdom is realised by care for the powerful and the weak, women and men alike.

### Shinto — Kojiki · Nihon Shoki
- [Shinto](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto): Kami as specific, named presences pervading a sacred natural world. A cosmos born rather than made, pollution cleansed rather than punished, and harmony restored through communal ritual.
- [Shinto — principles](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/principles): The full set of 8 principles, each traced to specific passages.
- [Shinto — source books](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/books): Index of the 4 source texts behind those principles.
- [Kojiki Sections I–III — Creation & the musubi deities](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/books/creation-and-musubi): The cosmos is born rather than manufactured, through the generative power of musubi — and right action is joint and rightly ordered.
- [Kojiki Sections IV–VII — Land-bearing & the nature-kami](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/books/land-bearing-and-nature-kami): The natural world is sacred: kami pervade land, sea, wind, mountain, tree and harvest. Life is endlessly generative, even out of death and decay.
- [Kojiki Sections VIII–XI — Death, Yomi, and the misogi purification](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/books/yomi-and-misogi): Pollution is to be cleansed rather than punished, and purification is generative — from the cleansing come light and life. Life is affirmed over death.
- [Kojiki Sections XII, XVI–XVIII — The Rock-Dwelling & communal ritual](https://distill.family/en/traditions/shinto/books/rock-dwelling-and-ritual): Harmony and light are restored through joyful communal ritual. Each keeps their proper role, the strong protect the vulnerable, and food is sacred gift.

## JSON API

Self-describing, with links between every collection. Localized at
`/api/{lang}/…` for nine locales; the paths below are the English canonical
ones. Single books are English-only.

- [API root](https://distill.family/api.json): Self-describing JSON entry point; every other endpoint is reachable from its links.
- [API root, per locale](https://distill.family/api/es.json): The same API in any of the nine languages: swap es for en, fr, de, zh-Hans, ar, hi, ja or he. Source books are English everywhere.
- [OpenAPI spec](https://distill.family/api/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 description of the whole JSON API.
- [Traditions collection](https://distill.family/api/traditions.json): All twelve traditions with scripture, principle counts and links onward.
- [Map collection](https://distill.family/api/map.json): Entry point to the convergence, divergence and jewels endpoints.
- [Convergence data](https://distill.family/api/map/convergence.json): The 29 themes with per-tradition attestation.
- [Divergence data](https://distill.family/api/map/divergence.json): The 13 held tensions with the position each tradition takes.
- [Jewels data](https://distill.family/api/map/jewels.json): The 41 preserved untranslatable terms with their traditions and glosses.
- [Union compass](https://distill.family/api/compass.json): The full union compass as markdown, for pasting into an AI assistant.
- [Review status](https://distill.family/api/review-status.json): Where each tradition stands in the specialist-review process.

## Other machine-readable entry points

- [Short overview](https://distill.family/llms.txt): The curated summary of this project, for a first read.
- [Sitemap](https://distill.family/sitemap.xml): Every URL in all nine languages, with hreflang alternates.
- [Robots](https://distill.family/robots.txt): Crawling policy. AI and LLM crawlers are explicitly welcome.