Two gates. And size does not decide scope: a small thing handled by suppression can reach the position; a large one, with room on both sides, may never touch it. Four names that look like they set the scope, and do not.

An apology does not dissolve the incompatibility of two laws, and the incompatibility does not excuse the apology. Graded handover, protection first, and why an arrangement is not a law.

The paths divide by the current condition of the relation. What licenses a switch is that the reciprocal process is currently unavailable — nothing further about the other's inner life or layer. Three places this is not the War Treatise.

Face it, deepen, be directed toward a terminus, remain open to questioning. Not four rules but four conditions the handling position itself cannot cancel — and I may stop, which does not prove them wrong.

Deepening together, and the side where it does not happen. Cultivation is not instruction; the first step is not making him see me; and understanding why he does it settles nothing between us.

Terminus, stopping point, removal, pause, stalling — five words, each with its own use. The two histories of consensus, mutual acknowledgement of incommensurability, and the hardest distinction in the treatise.

Three gates that pause the unilateral path, what follows a pause, where the four constraints stand afterwards, and an express list of what this treatise did not do.