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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Master Kong said, “I transmit but do not create. I believe in and love the ancients. I venture to compare myself with our Old Peng.” (Lunyu 7.1) 子曰：「述而不作，信而好古，竊比於我老彭。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FOUR BOOKS: CONFUCIAN CLASSICS — the monthly update is now live on the App Store and Google Play:

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Master Kong said, “The man of humanity, wishing to be established himself, also establishes others, and wishing to be prominent himself, also makes others prominent.” (Lunyu 6.28) 子曰：「夫仁者，己欲立而立人，己欲達而達人。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fan Chi asked about wisdom. Master Kong said, “Devote yourself to the duties due to men, and respect spiritual beings while keeping them at a distance. This may be called wisdom.” (Lunyu 6.20) 樊遲問知。子曰：「務民之義，敬鬼神而遠之，可謂知矣。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New feature: “Daily Classic” delivers a real quote from the Confucian Classics by notification at the time you choose. You can also set it to “Chinese First,” our large-character edition, if you would rather use it to practice reading Classical Chinese.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

✽ FOUR BOOKS: CONFUCIAN CLASSICS v1.9 ✽ Our monthly update is now live on the App Store and Google Play. New translated verses and their traditional commentaries, plus a new ”Daily Classic” feature.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is because one does not seek understanding in his own mind [but merely emulates] that one is in the dark and without achievement. It is because one does not put the affairs into practice [but merely contemplates] that one is unstable and not at peace. (Zhu Xi : Lunyu 2.15)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our public GitHub is live, and the first release is up: the “Collected Literary Works of Master Zhu” (朱子文集). The 1.8 million characters of the Ming 1532 woodblock edition, machine punctuated, tagged in English, and free under Creative Commons. github.com/Daoxue-Academy/Wenji-ST

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GitHub - Daoxue-Academy/Wenji-ST: Collected Literary Works of Master Zhu 朱子文集. This is a punctuated, AI-searchable source text (ST) of the Ming 1532 SBCK edition.

Collected Literary Works of Master Zhu 朱子文集. This is a punctuated, AI-searchable source text (ST) of the Ming 1532 SBCK edition. - Daoxue-Academy/Wenji-ST

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Four Books for Android is now live on the Google Play Store. With all the talk of “Great Books,” and all the technology now at hand, we really should have proper tools for studying the Classics. The only serious Confucian Classics app in the world. #ConfucianTechnologies

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

✽ FOUR BOOKS VERSION 1.8 ✽ The monthly update is now live on the App Store and Google Play. This month we took a step back from translating to do our largest coding and feature update since launch.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

✽ Four Books for Android ✽ With the new Mythos-class coding models, the time is right to bring the Four Books App to Android. We’ve completed a full 22,000-line code audit of the iOS build and are now rebuilding it as a native Android app. Expected release is August!

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“It is better to learn to sit quietly and to read old books at leisure, and rinse the mind of popular and mundane interests.” (Zhu Xi, Wenji ch. 63, tr. Chan) 不如且學静坐，閑讀舊書，滌去世俗塵垢之心。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An introductory essay for Four Books readers: “On the Structure of the Text.” How the ancient verses and medieval commentaries are laid out to form an orderly page architecture, and how our replica reproduces this in English. fourbooks.org/on-structure

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On the Structure of the Text

Published in 1190, the Four Books with Collected Commentaries quickly became a classic text across East Asia. To the Western reader, however, the commentarial style of this classic may be unfamiliar.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

✽ Learn Classical and Middle Chinese ✽ The Four Books App is now updated with literal glosses for all verses completed thus far. This is the equivalent of a “word for word” Analects, Great Learning, etc. Tap any character to see its literal meaning in that context. 先須曉其文義，然後可求其意

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Master Kong said, “Yóu! Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. This is knowledge.” (Lunyu 2.17) 子曰：「由！誨女知之乎？知之為知之，不知為不知，是知也。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Master Kong said, “He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in danger.” (Lunyu 2.15) 子曰：「學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

✽ Four Books Version 1.4 ✽ Our April update adds 15 newly translated verses and their traditional commentaries, completing our Lunyu chapter two selections. Also a new skin we’re calling “Imperial Bronze.”

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here is an example of links in the Four Books. When reading a verse, you can check out the named person... then go deeper to other verses featuring them. Or check out a term... then go deeper to how it is used in other books. Swipe down to escape back to your reading.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Four Books now has interconnecting references throughout the app to check out biographies, explanations of terms, and other verses, without losing your reading place. Also, press and hold, or double tap, to select and copy any text—titles, verse, commentary, and footnotes. (iOS 1.3)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Four Books App v1.2 is now available with new reading from Lunyu Chapter 1 and an improved Classical Chinese Study Mode for line-by-line study. Also note that our iPad version runs perfectly on macOS if you have an Apple Silicon Mac.

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

When the ruler treats the elderly as the elderly should be treated, the people are aroused to family devotion. When the ruler treats those older as those older should be treated, the people are aroused to brotherly respect. (Daxue ch. 10) 上老老而民興孝，上長長而民興弟。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Book of Odes says, “That peach tree, so young and lovely! How luxuriant is its foliage! This girl is going to her husband’s house. She will rightly order her household.” Let the household be rightly ordered, and then the people of the state may be taught. (Daxue ch. 9)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The government of the state depends on the regulation of the family. (Daxue ch. 9) 治國在齊其家。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The ruler must have the good qualities in himself and then he may require them in others; he must not have the bad qualities in himself and then he may require that others not have them. (Daxue ch. 9) 君子有諸己而后求諸人，無諸己而后非諸人。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Yao and Shun led all under heaven with humanity, and the people followed them. Jie and Zhou led all under heaven with violence, and the people followed them. When what they ordered contradicted what they themselves liked, the people did not follow. (Daxue ch. 9)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

One word may ruin an affair and one person may set the state in order. (Daxue ch. 9) 一言僨事，一人定國。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We have our work cut out for us this year... www.daoxue.academy/announcements

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“The greed and perversity of one person incites disorder in the whole state.” One person refers to the ruler. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 9) 「一人貪戾，一國作亂。」...一人，謂君也。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The humaneness of one family arouses the humanity of the whole state; the courtesy of one family arouses the courtesy of the whole state; the greed and perversity of one person incites disorder in the whole state. Such are the inward springs of activity. (Daxue ch. 9)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The notes and supplements appended by Zhu Xi to the original text appear in nearly all the editions of the work, which fall into the hands of students, and his view of the classics is what must be regarded as the orthodox one.” – James Legge, Great Learning (1861)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“There has never been a girl who had to learn to care for a child before she marries.” This clarifies that the foundation of establishing education lies not in forced effort, but merely in recognizing its beginnings and extending them. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 9)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If a mother sincerely seeks what the infant wants, though not hitting the mark exactly, she will not be far from it. There has never been a girl who had to learn to care for a child before she marries. (Daxue ch. 9) 心誠求之，雖不中不遠矣。未有學養子而后嫁者也！

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Family devotion is that with which one serves his ruler. Brotherly respect is that with which one serves his elders. Kindness is that with which one treats the multitude. (Daxue ch. 9) 孝者，所以事君也；弟者，所以事長也；慈者，所以使眾也。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our “Encyclopedia Daoxue” added 58 new entries in the January update. Includes the Four Books, Five Classics, seven major regional states, and 30 named persons from this month’s reading. From each entry, you can check out verse references using modal sheets...then push to verse!

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It is not possible for one to teach others, while he cannot teach his own family. Therefore the ruler without going beyond his family brings education to completion in the state. (Daxue ch. 9) 其家不可教而能教人者，無之。故君子不出家而成教於國。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Those who are taken with love are not clear-sighted, and those who are greedy are without satisfaction. This is the harm of partiality, and the reason why the family is not regulated. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 8) 溺愛者不明，貪得者無厭，是則偏之為害，而家之所以不齊也。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New Reading for January: The Lunyu begins with Zhu Xi’s preface in two parts: 1) the history of Master Kong, which quotes the Records of the Historian, and 2) introductory quotes from He Yan and the Cheng Brothers. (Four Books v1.1, live on the App Store)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The common saying goes, “People do not know the faults of their sons and do not know the fullness of their seedlings.” (Daxue ch. 8) 諺有之曰：「人莫知其子之惡，莫知其苗之碩。」

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The feelings of ordinary people merely follow their inclinations without careful examination, thus they inevitably fall into partiality and fail to cultivate their persons. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 8) 常人之情惟其所向而不加審焉，則必陷於一偏而身不修矣。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Those who love someone yet know their faults, or who dislike someone yet know their good qualities, are few in the world! (Daxue ch. 8) 好而知其惡，惡而知其美者，天下鮮矣！

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When the mind is not present, we look but do not see, listen but do not hear, eat but do not know its taste. (Daxue ch. 7) 心不在焉，視而不見，聽而不聞，食而不知其味。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When the mind is affected by wrath, it will not attain its correctness. When affected by fear, it will not attain its correctness. When affected by fondness, it will not attain its correctness. When affected by worries, it will not attain its correctness. (Daxue ch. 7)

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Goodness that is real within manifests externally. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 6) 善之實於中而形於外者如此。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

When the mind is without guilt or shame, then it becomes broad and tranquil, and the body is always relaxed and at ease. This is how virtue enriches the person. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 6) 心無愧怍，則廣大寬平，而體常舒泰，德之潤身者然也。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wealth enriches a house and virtue enriches the person. (Daxue ch. 6) 富潤屋，德潤身。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Zengzi said, “What ten eyes behold, what ten hands point to—it is something to beware of!” This says that even though in the midst of shrouded solitude, one’s good and evil cannot be concealed. (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 6) 曾子曰：「十目所視，十手所指，其嚴乎！」...言雖幽獨之中，而其善惡之不可揜如此。

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wishing to conceal their evil, in the end it cannot be concealed; wishing to pretend to be good, in the end they cannot pretend. Then what benefit is there? (Zhu Xi : Daxue ch. 6) 欲揜其惡而卒不可揜，欲詐為善而卒不可詐，則亦何益之有哉！

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Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 @daoxue-academy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

When the small person is alone and idle, there is no evil to which he will not proceed. Only when he sees a noble person does he then try to disguise himself, concealing the evil and making a display of what is good. (Daxue ch. 6) 小人閒居為不善，無所不至，見君子而后厭然，揜其不善，而著其善。

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