Today I learnt about something I always pondered on but I never knew its name
It is 靜坐.
Alive at first it looks like mindfulness meditation, but it is not. Mindfulness says “Follow the breath, release, let go, observe, let go.”
靜坐 says "don't move away until the heart reveals itself.”
Mindfulness promises calm
靜坐 demands honesty.
Zhu Xi wrote, “When one sits in quietude, the mind is clear and the principle is manifest.” This is not comfort, it is confrontation.
Mindfulness is a soft bed for the tired; 靜坐 is a mirror polished until every shadow shows.
Wang Yangming said, “To investigate principle is to seek it in one’s own heart.”
That is why 靜坐 matters now. It is not an escape from the world, it mattera as a way to return to it upright.
Comfort ends in forgetting; 靜坐 ends in remembering what cannot be ignored and embracing it in life.
Alive at first it looks like mindfulness meditation, but it is not. Mindfulness says “Follow the breath, release, let go, observe, let go.”
靜坐 says "don't move away until the heart reveals itself.”
Mindfulness promises calm
靜坐 demands honesty.
Zhu Xi wrote, “When one sits in quietude, the mind is clear and the principle is manifest.” This is not comfort, it is confrontation.
Mindfulness is a soft bed for the tired; 靜坐 is a mirror polished until every shadow shows.
Wang Yangming said, “To investigate principle is to seek it in one’s own heart.”
That is why 靜坐 matters now. It is not an escape from the world, it mattera as a way to return to it upright.
Comfort ends in forgetting; 靜坐 ends in remembering what cannot be ignored and embracing it in life.
