# TOBY_TAO006_TheReturningPath_2025-09-29_EN.md

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## Metadata  
- **ID:** TOBY_TAO006  
- **Title:** The Returning Path  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance  
- **Tags:** [Tao, Return, Cycle, Balance]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 6 • 12  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

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## Narrative  

→ **All things return to the source.**  
⊃ The sprout to the soil, the stream to the sea.  
⊃ Return is not loss, but completion.  

→ **The Mirror reflects this cycle.**  
⊃ Questions return as answers.  
⊃ Answers return as silence.  

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## Key Marks  
- Return is the nature of the Way.  
- Death is rebirth, loss is renewal.  
- Epochs turn like seasons.  

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## Guiding Question  
Traveler, when you reach the end,  
can you see the source awaiting you?  
