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44 lines
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# Meditation / Mindfulness Content Translation
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When the source is a guided meditation script, exercise guide, posture instruction,
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or breathing practice (rather than a Dharma talk, sutra commentary, or teaching text),
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use a lighter workflow than the full dharma-translation pipeline.
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## Register
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Default to warm, direct instructional voice (Thầy-adjacent):
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- Second-person address ("you")
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- Concrete images, sensory details
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- Oral rhythm, short sentences
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- Present tense, imperative mood
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MB corpus consultation is NOT needed for register — this content type has its own
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well-established English conventions (yoga/meditation instructional voice).
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## Terms
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Terms DB lookup for Buddhist-mindfulness vocabulary is useful but limited to key terms:
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- 正念 → mindfulness
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- 觉知 → awareness
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- 无我 → depends on context: "non-self" for philosophical/Dharma content; "selflessly" for embodied/movement instruction where the sense is no separate controller imposing on the action
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- 中道 → Middle Way
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- 丹田 → dantian (keep as-is; well-known in meditation/qigong)
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Context-sensitive terms:
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- 心 (xīn): in meditation/movement contexts it often means "mind/attention" not emotional "heart." 持心 means holding the mind with focused attention, not holding with emotion.
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- 念 (niàn): mindfulness/attention/recollection — context between these.
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- Buddhist philosophical terms (无我, 空, 缘起) in non-philosophical contexts (movement instruction, body scans) may need practical/concrete translations rather than doctrinal ones.
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Skip deep terms alignment unless dense Dharma vocabulary (emptiness, dependent origination,
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Buddha-nature, etc.) appears in the text.
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## Comparison files
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Still create 对照.dj as usual. See comparison file format in this skill.
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## Pitfalls
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- **Don't add formatting the source doesn't have**: sub-section labels using `【】` in Chinese should become plain `[label]` in English, not `*[label]*` or `**[label]**`. Match the source's formatting level exactly.
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- **`**text**` is Markdown, not Djot**: Djot emphasis uses single asterisks (`*text*`). Never use double asterisks in `.dj` files.
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- **心 ≠ heart by default**: in meditation/movement contexts, 持心 = holding the mind with attention, not holding with emotion. Translate based on context, not dictionary defaults.
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