From b5a94ec8861714627da005d1400a2030978ce933 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shalom Ormsby Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:16:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs: drop hand-written "Updated" stamps; git keeps the dates Nothing checked them, so they drifted from the files they dated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- AGENTS.md | 2 -- wiki/index.md | 2 -- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index a233ef6..3673954 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ > **This document is for AI agents and LLMs.** It provides the context you need to effectively retrieve from, reason about, and contribute to this knowledge base. Read this before interacting with the corpus. -Last updated: 2026-03-10 - --- ## What You're Working With diff --git a/wiki/index.md b/wiki/index.md index c0f70b6..66a4c58 100644 --- a/wiki/index.md +++ b/wiki/index.md @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ > LLM-synthesized concept pages, entity summaries, and cross-tradition connections. Updated by `/knowledge-compile`. Always loaded in Claude's context via `@knowledge/wiki/index.md` in `.claude/CLAUDE.md`. -**Last updated:** 2026-05-02 - --- ## Entities — People, Texts, Traditions From 1c554ec8cefa8361cd3a6ad950e18ef9a0eefd06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shalom Ormsby Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:24:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] =?UTF-8?q?wiki:=20Lao=20Tzu's=20chapter=202=20quote?= =?UTF-8?q?=20follows=20the=20=E5=94=AF=20lock?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit taoteching locked 唯 (wéi — only) on 2026-10-19, and every 夫唯 (fū wéi — "only because") line now reads "Only because…". This page still quoted chapter 2's old "Because the sage does not stay, it does not leave", so the living-quotes check failed on every branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- wiki/entities/lao-tzu.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wiki/entities/lao-tzu.md b/wiki/entities/lao-tzu.md index 9a5d4a8..278b3a6 100644 --- a/wiki/entities/lao-tzu.md +++ b/wiki/entities/lao-tzu.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Lao Tzu (c. 6th century BCE) is the legendary author of the *Tao Te Ching*, the ## Key Claims - **The Tao is unnameable:** "The Tao that can be made a way is not the ever-present Tao. / The name that can be named is not the ever-present name" (*Tao Te Ching*, ch. 1). Language and conceptual thought are always approximations. The Tao precedes sky and earth; the named is the mother of the countless things, but not of the Tao itself. -- **Wu wei (無為, non-doing):** The sage acts in alignment with the Tao without striving or forcing. "The work is done, and the sage does not stay in it. / Because the sage does not stay, it does not leave" (*Tao Te Ching*, ch. 2). Action from wu wei is effective precisely because it doesn't impose. +- **Wu wei (無為, non-doing):** The sage acts in alignment with the Tao without striving or forcing. "The work is done, and the sage does not stay in it. / Only because the sage does not stay does it not leave" (*Tao Te Ching*, ch. 2). Action from wu wei is effective precisely because it doesn't impose. - **Complementary opposites:** All phenomena arise in pairs: presence/absence, difficult/easy, long/short, high/low, front/back. These are not contradictions but complements that define and sustain each other. "When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises" (*Tao Te Ching*, ch. 2). - **Return to naturalness:** The goal is not achievement but return — to simplicity, to the uncarved wood (樸, *pu*), to the state before social conditioning imposes false distinctions. - **Te (德) — integrity:** Te is the Tao manifested in particular things. It is not moral virtue in the Western sense but the integrity of a thing when it is fully itself, which is why the Open Tao Te Ching renders it *integrity*.