by Cheng Tong | May 29, 2026 | Stillness
~ This piece is an original teaching story and the first in a three-part series. The next two pieces are supporting essays and will appear respectively in two weeks and four weeks. The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on... 
by Cheng Tong | May 15, 2026 | Stillness
Preface: Those of an age will remember the television show “Dragnet” with Sergeant Joe Friday. It began with the over-voice saying: “Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear/see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”...