The Concordance

● holds it · core teaching ◐ holds a version · same conclusion, different ground ○ silent ✕ refuses it ◌ dashed · flagged for the founder's review

The canon	StoicismGreco-Roman	Daoismclassical China	Advaita VedāntaIndia	YogācāraBuddhist India	MadhyamakaBuddhist India	Neoplatonismlate antiquity	Berkeley18th c.	Kant18th c.	William James19th–20th c.	Husserl20th c.	New Thought19th c.–	Analytic idealismcontemporary	Materialismmodern	Behaviorism20th c.
The ground
Consciousness is fundamentalConsciousness creates the brain and all matter; the assumption is disclosed, not argued.	✕	○	●	●	✕	●	●	◐	◐	○	●	●	✕	✕
Experience is real as itselfFirst-person reality does not need third-person permission to count.	◐	◐	◐	●	◐	●	●	◐	●	●	●	●	✕	✕
One field, many perspectivesOne consciousness, individuated into viewpoints; separation is explorable, not ultimate.	◐	◐	●	◐	✕	●	◐	✕	◐	◐	●	●	✕	✕
The practice
Attention is formativeAttention is not a spotlight inside the world; it is the field taking shape.	●	◐	◐	●	◐	●	○	◐	●	●	●	◐	◐	○
Imagination is realThe source of a thing cannot be less real than the thing; imagination is an instrument, not a synonym for unreal.	○	○	○	◐	○	◐	◐	●	◐	●	●	◐	◐	✕
Authorship, forward only"You create your reality" is a posture of authorship going forward, never a verdict on what happened to you.	●	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	○	◐	●	○	✕	◐	◐	✕
The guardrails
No bypassEvery reframe closes its own exit: the pain being workable does not make it unreal.	●	●	○	◐	●	○	○	◐	●	○	✕	●	●	◐
Care comes firstThe practice replaces nothing clinical, and says so before doing anything else.	◐	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	◐	○	✕	○	●	◐
The world stays sharedConsensus reality remains real and binding; your grief is workable and your rent is still due.	●	●	◐	◐	●	●	●	●	●	●	◐	●	●	●
The test
Judged by fruitsThree tests: does it hold when life shakes, what does it produce, can you verify it in your own life.	●	●	◐	●	●	◐	○	✕	●	○	◐	◐	◐	◐

Click any cell for its receipt. Every grade is an argument, and the receipt is the argument in one line. The interesting cells are rarely the fully green ones: watch the traditions that reach this practice from another ground, and the columns that refuse the ground yet keep half the practice.

Reading the columns

Stoicism · Greco-Roman · Materialist physics, consciousness-like ethics of attention: the strongest proof that the practice principles do not require the ground.

Daoism · classical China · Alignment without metaphysics: the Way is never called consciousness, and the living is the argument.

Advaita Vedānta · India · Full ally on the ground, stranger to the guardrails: the witness tradition aims at release, not authorship.

Yogācāra · Buddhist India · Consciousness-only with practice as renovation: the closest classical engineering of experience.

Madhyamaka · Buddhist India · Refuses every ground, ours included, and keeps the market real: the anti-foundationalist check on the whole row.

Neoplatonism · late antiquity · The One and the turn of attention: idealist ascent that still defends the world against its despisers.

Berkeley · 18th c. · Idealism with the world held steady by God: the consensus problem solved by theism.

Kant · 18th c. · The bracketed middle in person: mind structures everything, the in-itself stays dark, and fruits are refused as a moral test.

William James · 19th–20th c. · The in-house ancestor: attention, the will to believe, fruits as the rule; only the one field held at arm's length.

Husserl · 20th c. · Silent by method: the epoché brackets the ground while the descriptions vindicate the data.

New Thought · 19th c.– · The nearest cousin and the cautionary tale: the ground, the instruments, none of the guardrails.

Analytic idealism · contemporary · The contemporary theoria this praxis consumes: one field, dissociation, and a firm no to wish-fulfillment.

Materialism · modern · The symmetric wager: refuses the ground and the datum, owns the clinic, keeps the shared world absolutely.

Behaviorism · 20th c. · The perfect inverse: refuses experience itself, yet runs facing-the-feared on rails; the empty lane's other wall.

What the matrix shows

The practice is ancient; the ground is rare. Attention, forward authorship, facing what hurts, testing by fruits: the practice rows are green and gold across the whole shelf, from the Stoa to the clinic. The ground rows are where the field narrows to Advaita, Yogācāra, Plotinus, Berkeley, analytic idealism, and this school. A discipline can be old in its instruments and young in its honesty about where it stands.

The nearest cousin is the cautionary tale. New Thought shares the ground and every instrument, and its column turns red exactly at the guardrails: authorship read as verdict, bypass indulged, care displaced. That column is why the guardrails are part of this discipline's definition rather than its etiquette.

The opponents keep half the practice. Materialism's clinic and behaviorism's exposure therapy are genuine no-bypass allies, and both hold the shared world absolutely. This is why an adjunct posture is possible at all: the disagreement is about the ground, not about whether care and courage matter.

Method: grades are editorial judgments over each tradition's canonical texts and standard histories, argued one receipt per cell; treat every cell as a claim with its evidence attached, not a datum. Traditions are graded on their central, classical form (noted where a school divides). 11 cells carry a dashed flag: judgment calls awaiting the founder's review. The table is deliberately not a proof that everyone agrees with the school; the refusals are what make the agreements informative. Grades are carried by glyph and color together, and the palette is contrast-checked in both light and dark modes.