Sitting in Oblivion / Zuo Wang
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CORE DEFINITION
Discard the body, banish intellect, detach from form and knowledge, and unite with the Great Thoroughfare. Forget the body, forget knowledge, and enter a pure state of consciousness.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Formatting. Thoroughly clear all concepts, biases, and sensations from the mind. Restart the system and return to factory settings (the Dao).
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A cultivation technique from the Zhuangzi: through 'discarding the body, banishing intellect, detaching from form and knowledge,' one gradually lets go of bodily attachments and conceptual biases, returning consciousness to an undifferentiated, penetrating state (united with the Great Thoroughfare). The mechanism is 'subtraction' rather than 'addition'—only by emptying presuppositions can one perceive directly.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%90%E5%BF%98verified
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