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You feel the pieces of your world collapse into a heap. Having lost all, find a new world. It falls into place when you let go. Make no distinctions. Live without desire. Have no plans. Distinctions, desires, and plans are things of a collapsing world. They are the result of doing something to improve your life. Instead, do nothing. This is to remember twia. Act in the moment. Accept the outcome. Hold peace of heart always.

To do something is to have expectation, and expectations have consequences. You expect that doing something will be of benefit by bringing you closer to fulfilling your desires. This is the way of the world. It is not the way of the path, which is remembering twia.

The way of the world is to distinguish what you want from what you do not want in hopes of having a better life. In this lies your struggle. You get muddy when digging your own channel for the river to run. Such struggle is not needed when you do nothing. The river will run its own course when you lie low in the valley. Follow the river. It knows the way to the sea.

Release your desire to manage the river on your own. You are squandering your power on a senseless quest. Release to twia. Let your power flow naturally. Let the river flow on its own. It knows the way down from the hills to the sea through the lowlands. Let the channel you built collapse. Let the river follow its course without your interference.

Live in the valley, in a garden tilled by twia on rich deposits of soil washed down from the hills. The river nourishes all who do nothing to receive it.