CORE TERMS
Core terms
These terms name the main concepts of the Meditative Humanities inquiry framework. Full exposition is on the framework page.
- HEED
- Problem fields: Health, Existential, Environmental, Digital.
- CARE
- Formation capacities: Concentration, Awareness, Responsiveness, Engagement.
- Gong’an / koan
- Inquiry material that obstructs habitual classification, question-forms, and ready-made answers.
- Canjiu
- Inquiry practice that stays with the question so it returns to the inquirer—without rushing to conceptualize or solve it.
- GBSD
- Gong’an-Based Structural Deconditioning: how embodied structures appear, suspend, meet impasse, reconfigure, and return to the world.
- Double accountability
- Accountability to materials and to the world—transformed understanding must meet both material limits and public consequences.
- Accountable Transformation
- The aim of return and verification: recognizable, revisable change in question, understanding, and response—not certification of a special inner state.