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WANG YANGMING (王陽明)
1472–1529
The Unity of Knowing and Acting (The Liturgy)
Wang: to know and not to act is not yet to know. CoCA's preference for practice over belief (Vol. I Foreword) is Wang Yangming as institutional default. The Liturgy is performed; in the performing, the knowing happens. The artist who attends the meeting knows the Vow of Calm in the only sense in which it can be known: by sitting in it. The doctrine is not memorized. The doctrine is enacted.