27 October 2026
On Beginning AgainSample
Sample writing — placed here to show how a piece reads on the page.
Writings
Whatever Kevin Wu wants to set down — on practice, on the noise, on what he found when he stopped.
27 October 2026
Sample writing — placed here to show how a piece reads on the page.
What goes here
There is a tension worth naming. The practice at the centre of this site is an oral one — the instruction is to say the words and hear them, and the tradition names hearing (śravaṇam) as the first of its nine practices, before chanting and before everything else.
And yet it is one of the most heavily written traditions there is. The Chaitanya-charitamrita runs to thousands of verses. Prabhupada's translation work ran to dozens of volumes, much of it done after the age of seventy. The reconciliation the tradition offers is simple: writing is how hearing is passed on to people who were not in the room.
So this page is for reflection rather than scripture — short pieces, set down slowly, by someone working out what a contemplative practice means inside a life that is lived largely on screens. That is the gap m0nk was written to sit in.