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The quiet womb of direction: receiving life fully and letting it steer.
Where Gate 1 is the spark, this is the ground that receives it. It holds the inner compass, the sense of which way life is already moving. Cut off from it, we feel dislocated, steering hard while going nowhere. Received, it orients everything without effort.
The practice here is radical receptivity: letting yourself be moved rather than managing the route. Direction is felt in the body long before the mind can justify it. Trusted over time, this listening dissolves the difference between your way and life's way. That closing of the gap is unity.
Dislocation → Orientation → Unity