A Miracle Course to Self-discovery and Enlightenment
Xuemo's Wisdom Course is a pyramid-like cultivation system based on the wisdom of the East, created by Xuemo, integrating the fine essence of Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist thought. This course aims to guide individuals to directly see the root of their afflictions, helping them understand the nature of the self and the world, and gradually achieve enlightenment.
It begins with the eight-step self-cultivation of Confucianism's "active" principles, transitions through the "non-action" training of Daoism, and culminates in the six-step Buddhist practice of uniting calm abiding with higher insight. This structured three-stage, fifteen-step roadmap systematically leads spiritual seekers to transcend desires, unite with the Dao, discover their true self, abide in the Middle Way, and ultimately remain inseparable from the ultimate truth.
Xuemo, born in 1963 as Chen Kaihong, is a renowned writer from Gansu, China. He has written over 80 books, published in more than 200 editions, with translations available in over 20 languages.Xuemo's novel
Into the Desert won the 2022 Excellent Translation Award by the China International Communications Group (CICG), the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Women's Fiction and the 2024 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction. Xuemo has been named International Impact Book Awards-Author of the Year 2025 for
Into the Desert. His novel
Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia won the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature. The novel
Wild Fox Ridge won the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, it was also honored with the 2025 International Book Awards and 2026 NYC Big Book Award.
White Tiger Pass received the 2026 International Impact Book Awards. He has been nominated three times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize and has won the Dunhuang Literature and Art Award six consecutive times.The e-book editions of
Desert Rites,
Desert Hunters, White Tiger Pass,
Love Letters from the Goddess,
Eternal Love and
Reclaim the Throne of Your Heart have repeatedly ranked No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller lists.
Xuemo: - Xuemo, born in 1963 as Chen Kaihong, is a renowned writer from Gansu, China. He has written over 80 books, published in more than 200 editions, with translations available in over 20 languages, including English, French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.Xuemo is one of China's most influential contemporary writers. His audiobook Buddha's Wisdom: Xuemo Interprets the Diamond Sutra on the Himalaya platform, has been played over 35 million times and remains a top-ranking program. His series What's on Laozi's mind: Xuemo Interprets Dao De Jing has sold nearly one million copies in China.Since 2019, his works have been featured in independent booths at major international book fairs and film festivals in Germany, London, the United States, and across Asia. In 2022, he topped the International Media Spotlight List at the Frankfurt Book Fair, drawing more attention than the Guest of Honor, Spain. This achievement was hailed as one of the most remarkable and memorable events of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.Notably, more than ten of his works have been translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, the distinguished translators of Nobel Prize-winning literature. Research centers devoted to his work have been established at Ningbo University and Central South University.
