On Beginning Again

31 October 2026

Sample writing — placed here to show how a piece reads on the page.

Sample writing. Placeholder copy to show how a piece reads. Placeholder text only.

This is sample copy. It is here so the typography, the drop capital and the spacing can be judged against real-looking text, and it will be deleted before anything goes live. Nothing on this page is attributed to Kevin Wu, and nothing here reflects his views. When he writes, his words replace this entirely and appear exactly as he types them — no editing, no summarising. The practice described elsewhere on this site has a quality that sample text can at least gesture at: it is designed to be returned to rather than completed. The attention wanders and is brought back, and the bringing back is the whole of it. A page of writing works the same way — you lose the thread, you find it again, and the finding is the reading.

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Writing, in a tradition built on hearing

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 this site was written to sit in.

The nine practices What the mantra says