The gates activate only when false movement becomes visible. Default state is open. Each one names a specific kind of capture — not to judge it, but to make it visible enough that it loses traction. Read one. Come back when something feels off.
00Base Primitive
Before any gate applies. Action that arises without purpose is valid by default. Not in order to. Not identity-building. Not state-repair. This is the ground everything else corrects against.
01Sincerity
The Weighing of Ma'at. Desire is not the problem. What gets hitched to the desire is. The gate intercepts the reach toward becoming — not the wanting itself, but the calculation that rides it.
02Vitality
The Reins of Helios. Conditions, hardware, present necessity. If any factor is zero, hold. Not waiting to feel ready. This gate distinguishes a closing structural window from urgency manufactured by anxiety.
03Infrastructure
The Hearth of Vesta. The body is hardware. Meeting its structural requirements is not self-care — it is system maintenance. The gate distinguishes degradation from discomfort, and intervenes only when the instrument is actually failing.
04Field
The Loom of the Norns. Genuine relational response flows through you, not from you. The gate tests whether you are responding to the field's actual condition or using the field to install something about yourself.
05Erasure
The Linen of Anubis. Act, drop the doer, continue. What usually follows action is not rest — it is interpretation. The gate catches the moment the system starts storing identity around what just happened.
06Calibration
The Dance of Nataraja. If humor is absent, rigidity has set in. The gate that catches the protocol being used as a cage. Neti neti — not this, not this — is the move when the corruption list runs out.
—Sadhana
When the tool becomes a practice. For most practitioners the loops are already running on arrival. This page names what that looks like, how the practice ends, and what remains when the practitioner-identity drops like every other loop.
The only instruction Ground State
Aliveness is the authority. Not the gates. Not the protocol. Not the practice. When aliveness speaks clearly — the impulse to draw, to move, to make, to rest — everything else steps aside. The gates exist only to clear what obscures that signal.