Plain Dharma

Take it and make something

Everything here is CC0 / public domain. DJs, sample it. Artists, repaint it. Translators, carry it into a new language. Teachers, print it. No permission, no attribution, no asking — the stems are below.

You don't owe anything for any of this. But if you'd rather your work live here— a sharper translation, a human-voiced reading — there's a way to send it back.

Audio, track by track

Narrated MP3s for every section of every teaching — clean source for a mix, a meditation app, a podcast bed. Pull a single track, or grab a whole language as one zip.

佛陀的第一次开示7 tracks
佛陀的第二次开示6 tracks
佛陀的第三次开示:火的开示6 tracks
关于慈心3 tracks
觉察的四个根基8 tracks
怎么决定该相信什么7 tracks

The full narrated audiobook (M4B, chaptered) lives on the download page.

The art

One ink illustration per teaching, each with a dark-mode variant. Transparent PNGs — drop them on anything. The full-resolution Gemini originals are in the zip.

The Buddha's First Talk

The Buddha's First Talk

The Buddha's Second Talk

The Buddha's Second Talk

The Buddha's Third Talk: The Fire Sermon

The Buddha's Third Talk: The Fire Sermon

On Loving-Kindness

On Loving-Kindness

The Foundations of Mindfulness

The Foundations of Mindfulness

How to Decide What to Believe

How to Decide What to Believe

The text

The plain-English (and Mandarin) source, as Markdown. Retypeset it, fork the translation, feed it to a model, set it to music. This is the canonical source the whole site is built from.

Finished editions

Prefer something ready to read or hand out? The typeset EPUB, PDF, and the chaptered audiobook are on the download page — same CC0 terms.

The license, plainly

All of it — text, audio, art — is released under CC0 1.0, the closest thing to public domain. You can copy, remix, translate, perform, print, and sell what you make. You don't need our permission and you don't need to credit us — though a link back is always kind. Nothing here is owned, and nothing you make from it has to be either.

Made something?

We'd genuinely love to see it — and if you want your work to become part of Plain Dharma itself, the door is open.