The Taoist meditation text commonly known as the Qingjing Jing is titled Qingjing Jing in Chinese, written 清静经.
Qingjing Jing is usually translated as the Scripture of Clarity and Stillness. It is a short Taoist scripture focused on calming the mind, reducing desire, and returning to clarity. The text is often associated with Laozi in traditional attribution, although that attribution is not treated as historical authorship by modern scholarship.
The scripture became influential in religious Taoism and in later meditation traditions. Its central themes are reflected in its title: qing means clarity or purity, while jing means stillness, tranquility, or quietness. Translations vary because individual Chinese terms can carry several related philosophical meanings.
The Qingjing Jing is sometimes confused with the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, or the Taipingjing. Those are separate texts with different histories, structures, and themes. The Qingjing Jing is particularly associated with practices of mental purification and contemplative stillness rather than with the political and paradoxical discussions found in some other Taoist classics.