What you look at, you become.
A line that took wu wei and made it a discipline of the eyes. The Order holds that attention is the only offering anyone actually makes, that it is spent whether or not you choose where, and that choosing where is the entire practice.
DeitiesNone — no god at the center
Founded2026 CE
FounderYuki Tanabe
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c. 500 BCE Taoism 2026 CE The Attention Order
Attention is the only offering anyone makes.
It is spent whether or not you choose where. Everything else you might give costs something you can replace.
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What you look at, you become.
Not metaphor as far as the Order is concerned — a claim about what a person is made of over years.
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The audit is monthly and unflattering.
Members account for where the month went, in hours, without softening it.
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The hour of one object.
One hour, one object, no notes. Members report that the first forty minutes are wasted and say so cheerfully.
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Where next
the museum exit — every door leads deeper inSources
1 cited texts
- The Attention Order, the audit preamble where it is cited →
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