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The Teaching Without Words 無言之教 / wú yán zhī jiào

I have long observed that certain locutions are so tightly bound to the linguistic, cultural, and cosmological matrices from which they arise that translation, in the ordinary sense, is not merely inadequate but category-mistaken. One may transport lexical correspondences, historical glosses, and philological annotations across languages, yet the operative meaning remains embedded in a lived…