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Original editorial essays, research synthesis and timely analysis.
One Body, Three Languages
An editorial on how this site handles the vocabularies that meet in Chinese sitting practice — practitioner, traditional, and scientific — and why keeping them separate is the whole method.
The Words Are Not the Thing: How This Site Translates
An editorial on the translation policy of this knowledge base — why qi stays romanized, why wuwei is 'non-action,' why some sentences are marked untranslatable, and what translation choices can and cannot do.
Three Craftsmen: What the Dazheng Chapter Teaches About Practice
An editorial synthesis of the Dazheng chapter's three parables — the wooden rooster, Artisan Qing, the cicada-catcher — and what they jointly say about training, emptying, and non-forcing.
What Zuowang Can and Cannot Offer a Modern Practitioner
An editorial: reading the Zhuangzi's sitting-in-oblivion from the present — what transfers, what doesn't, and why the ancient text is more conservative than modern meditation culture.