Daoist practice & handmade objects
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Stillness meditation taught from a living Chinese Daoist tradition, and the few objects that keep a practice company: hand-rolled incense, mountain tea, a cushion to sit on.
This fortnight
Practise with the season
The Chinese year turns through twenty-four solar terms, each about fifteen days long. Every term gets a short letter on how to adjust your sitting, your tea and your incense.
Objects
Tools for sitting still
Each piece is made by a small workshop we know by name. Materials and origin are listed on every object.
Practice
Learn to sit, one step at a time
Start free. Each step asks a little more of you and gives more back. Lessons are taught in Chinese by the teacher with careful English subtitles and notes.
Journal
Notes from the practice
Free essays on the classic texts and on sitting. New notes every week.
The teacher
Where the teaching comes from
Our teacher has practised Daoist stillness meditation for decades, first as a student in the mountains and later as a teacher of students across China.
Uncarved brings that practice to readers in English. The teaching stays in the teacher’s own words, translated with care, and is never simplified into a wellness trend.
- Tradition
- To be confirmed by the teacher
- Practising since
- To be confirmed
- Teaches
- Stillness meditation, breath, the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi
- Language
- Mandarin, with English subtitles and interpreter
Letters from the Mountain
A short letter every week, and a longer one at each solar term: what to practise, what to read, what to drink.