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.