Leah Kalmanson
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first heard Mar 2021
last heard Mar 2021
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And so when we think about relational knowing, that's why we took
these existing discourses on relational knowing and contemporary Chinese philosophy and really wanted to bring in a thinker like Jiu Shi, who's often, you know, known only to specialists, right?
Not someone we necessarily bring into the undergraduate classroom all the time.
So that is one of the the sections of the book is this uh it it's recounting a a classroom practice um in which I did require the students to memorize a text.
And I tried to build them up to this by giving them, you know, ju she passages early on to to you know sort of it convince them that reading should be a personally transformative practice, um, and that one pass over a text was not enough.
And so we take um what Duchi considered to be one of the foundational texts.
Which is the great learning.
It's a chapter from the Book of Rites that he sort of resuscitates in the Sung dynasty as being a central a central uh sort of s source for him.
And I have them memorize just the opening passages of it in seven parts.
So this happens over the course of seven weeks.
Every week they would have a little quiz and they would just have to reproduce um what they had learned and they so they would memorize the text cumulatively.
And we would often engage in a few minutes of what's called quiet sitting, which is a a ruist um meditation technique, very much influenced by by Chan Buddhist techniques at the time, but taken in into the ruist or the Confucian context.
Um, so we would think through again the scholarly strategies that Ju Shi himself said you need.
So he says you need to sit down and do some quiet sitting before you can study because you need to calm your mind.
So the students would do that and we would have the the r the the quizzes.
And they would eventually memorize, you know, about a page worth um in in English, um, or or a very long paragraph written in English.
And I always gave them the option to memorize it in the language of their choice, if they as long as they could give me um a version to check.
for their quizzes.
Um s and then at the end of the semester after they've, you know, at first I have to say, vocally resisted the entire idea.
Um, but at the end of the semester, they've come to love it.
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