Changelog

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#0.2.0 (2026-09-29)

A revision focused on epistemic consistency, safeguarding, governance, and license clarity while preserving the card, commitments, weekly form, and central voice of the first draft.

• Added explicit categories for how claims are held: observation, inference, working commitment, and open question.
• Revised metaphysical claims so the document no longer presents open or untestable propositions as established knowledge.
• Clarified that convergence across traditions is testimony worth noticing, not proof.
• Added a quotation and translation policy and tightened historically or textually overbroad claims.
• Corrected the CC0 language: original project prose is dedicated to the public domain, while third-party quotations, translations, titles, and other source material retain whatever rights apply to them.
• Replaced "takes no money" with the more precise "takes no collection" and clarified transparent sharing of immediate practical costs.
• Strengthened safeguarding and separated ordinary conflict from serious harm: safety first, no forced confrontation, appropriate outside intervention, fact-checking, and protection against retaliation.
• Clarified that the hard-truth round is private by norm rather than absolutely secret where safeguarding or law requires disclosure.
• Clarified repair and forgiveness so neither requires continued access, reconciliation, or unsafe contact.
• Added a concrete active-table definition and formal revision procedure, including a 30-day comment period, quorum, two-thirds adoption threshold, and three-quarters threshold for structural safeguards.
• Defined the end of bootstrap governance and added multi-custodian infrastructure rules after four active tables exist.
• Clarified institutional neutrality while preserving participants' individual civic freedom.
• Strengthened the dissolution clause to include coercive certainty, status accumulation, concealment of serious harm, and retaliation.
• Moved Monroe-derived contemplative material into an optional appendix and made its metaphysical assumptions explicitly provisional.
• Replaced the former psychoactive-substance guidance with a non-instructional appendix that defers current medical, legal, and harm-reduction guidance to appropriate contemporary sources.
• Updated the rites, death section, source descriptions, and related language to reflect the document's epistemic standard.

#0.1.0 (2026-09-28)

First draft.

• Preface, card, purpose, and sources.
• What we hold about reality, people, and a life of meaning.
• On suffering.
• The eight commitments, each with its ancestors.
• On doubt, community, and harm within.
• The practices: the sitting, the deeper sitting, the gathering, the service, the rest, the repair, the study, and the rites of passage.
• On death, on other traditions, and on the opened door.
• Governance, including custody of the domain and the organization.
• The dissolution clause.
• Closing and the line.