The Cycle of Distortion

When the current is ignored, four distortions appear:

Excess Flow becomes drift.
Excess Preservation becomes fear.
Excess Clarity becomes cruelty.
Excess Revelation becomes destruction.

When distortion appears, do not fight it—
simply change the motion:

Drift → Guard.
Fear → Flow.
Cruelty → Still.
Destruction → Pause.

Correct the motion, and the distortion dissolves.

Chapters

• The Nature of the Current
• The River of Here
• The Four Movements of Freedom
• The Cycle of Distortion
• The Gates of the Inner Stream
• The Practices of the Living Stream
• The Two Times
• On Things
• The Mirror of Action
• Dissolution
• The Unnamed Voice
• The Closing Motion