Editorial policy

The notebook is written under rules fixed before the first article, and the about page states the short version. This page is the long one.

Sourcing

Every canonical claim carries its reference, by nikaya and number, in the text or in a table beside it: MN 118 for the sixteen steps, MN 10 for the foundations, AN 3.65 for the Kalama method, and so on. Where a claim rests on the commentaries or on later meditation manuals, the page says which literature it rests on. Where a claim rests on how institutions currently run, as with temple retreats, the page describes only long established public fact and directs the reader to confirm with the center itself. Translations differ; when two published renderings disagree enough to matter, the disagreement is named rather than hidden.

Boundaries

The notebook is a lay companion, so it holds three boundaries as policy. It gives no medical or psychological advice, and it does not frame practice as treatment for anything; readers bringing health questions to practice are directed to qualified professionals. It claims no monastic authority, publishes no teachings of its own, and performs no rites; the desk writes notes, not doctrine. And it does not dress speculation as fact: where the honest answer is that a source is silent, the page says so.

Corrections

Corrections are welcomed through the contact page and are applied with the reference that supports them; substantive corrections are marked in the notebook’s record with the date. Articles are dated when published and are revised in place rather than republished as new. The notebook’s relationship with money is on the sponsored content page, and its data practices are on the privacy page.