
Master Qingliangyue
Profile
Master Qingliangyue, real name Li Penggang, is a licensed traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, an awakened practitioner, and the founder of the Ontology of Thinking system.
Biography
I. Basic Background
- Birth Information: Born in 1970 in Nanyang City, Henan Province. Showed strong interest in traditional Chinese culture from an early age, particularly in I Ching and qigong.
- Educational Background: Graduated from Henan University of Chinese Medicine, where he specialized in qigong under the school's qigong research faculty, achieving high levels in empirical practice.
II. Key Life Milestones
- 2004: After long-term study of Daoist theory, discovered the problem of easily losing empirical states. Made a fundamental breakthrough after encountering Buddhism, completely solving this issue and achieving integration of core principles from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
- 2011-2016: Practiced as a TCM doctor in a hospital while conducting research combining empirical practice with modern science, completing the series of works "Fundamental Research on Thought Phenomena," "Scientific Empiricism," and "Journey to the West Interpretation."
- 2017: Resigned from the hospital to focus on scientific empirical teaching, launching three online courses: "Empirical Theory," "Meditation," and "Desire Boundary Definition," with an accompanying teaching assistant team.
III. Core Achievements
- Founded the "Ontology of Thinking" system, using modern scientific language to reinterpret traditional Buddhist and Daoist practice content, breaking barriers between different practice systems to form a repeatable, systematic approach to empirical practice.
- Within the first three years of teaching, achieved the result of nearly 100 people attaining meditative absorption and hundreds attaining desire boundary definition, driving traditional empirical content toward de-mystification and popularization.
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Articles
7 article(s)
- Awakening in Practice· August 25, 2026
Some Characteristics of Awakening
Qingliangyue describes several characteristics directly realized after awakening—including Great Compassion, the inherent stability of the True Mind, non-self, movement of mind, seeing the Buddhas, and habitual tendencies—and distinguishes meditative states from the vajra samādhi of self-nature.
AwakeningTrue MindGreat CompassionTathāgatagarbhaNon-SelfQingliangyueRead full article → - Mind Contemplation· August 17, 2026
[Mind Contemplation Series] 4: Where the Mind Abides and What the Mind Shatters
In the derivative states of thought, the mind always abides somewhere. This discourse profoundly distinguishes "abiding in object-grasping" from "abiding in self-grasping," revealing why only when dwelling in the ontology of thought can an external catalyst shatter ego-clinging and return to the Tathāgatagarbha.
Mind ContemplationSelf-GraspObject-GraspOntology of ThoughtTathagatagarbhaQingliangyueRead full article → - Mind Contemplation· August 17, 2026
[Mind Contemplation Series] 3: Third Discourse on Mind Contemplation — Practical Techniques and the Mother of Samādhi
Practitioners often struggle with restlessness before seeing the Way. This discourse details the technical essentials of entering and leaving meditation, exercise methods to counteract drowsiness and scatteredness, cultivating Great Compassion for swift absorption, and the vital rule of physical stillness.
Mind ContemplationMeditationGreat CompassionNianfoSamadhiQingliangyueRead full article → - Mind Contemplation· August 17, 2026
[Mind Contemplation Series] 2: Liberation Through Mind Contemplation and Common Practice Errors
A thorough analysis of the four common errors in mind contemplation: mistaking contemplation of objects for mind contemplation, suppressing mind with mind, seeking mind with mind, and waiting for mind with mind — leading to the correct path rooted in Great Compassion and Non-Self.
Mind ContemplationCommon ErrorsGreat CompassionNon-SelfTathagatagarbhaQingliangyueRead full article → - Mind Contemplation· August 17, 2026
[Mind Contemplation Series] 1: Those Who Contemplate the Mind Attain Ultimate Liberation
Mind contemplation has always held a vital position in Buddhism as a method of liberation passed down from the ancients. "Those who can contemplate the mind attain ultimate liberation." This article explains the crucial key of contemplating after achieving bodily emptiness, and the essential difference between mind contemplation and meditative absorption.
Mind ContemplationBody EmptinessDhyanaAwakeningTathagatagarbhaQingliangyueRead full article → - Mind-Ground Method· August 13, 2026
The Essentials of Buddhism: The Mind-Ground Method
Using the metaphor of a double-layered lantern, Qingliangyue systematically explains the Buddhist mind-ground method: the true mind is like the candle flame within, while the sixth consciousness and the seventh consciousness are like the lantern paper. Practice is the complete inner journey from defiled thoughts back to the pure light of mind.
BuddhismMind-GroundConcentrationTathāgatagarbhaQingliangyueRead full article → - Chan Buddhism· August 13, 2026
The Empirical Steps of Chan Buddhism
A summary by Qingliangyue of the Chan path of practice: from clarifying the mind and breaking the first barrier, to the great awakening of returning to the Tathāgatagarbha, and finally to the freedom of matter at the eighth stage — three steps with a clear underlying principle.
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