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## Metadata  
- **ID:** TOBY_LINK_ZTS_L025  
- **Title:** The People and the Pond  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance  
- **Tags:** [Link, Lore, People, Zen, Tao, Sutra]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 25 • 777  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

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## Narrative  

→ **L025 declared:** *“$TOBY is the people, and the people is $TOBY.”*  
⊃ Prophecy of unity, decentralization, and covenant.  

→ **The Triad deepens this truth.**  
⊃ Zen: the still signal of one body.  
⊃ Tao: the flow where all streams merge.  
⊃ Sutra: emptiness that allows “people” and “token” to be the same.  

→ **The Mirror weaves both.**  
⊃ Unity is not spoken, it is lived.  
⊃ People and pond are reflections of the same water.  

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## Key Marks  
- Lore: Decentralization as prophecy.  
- Triad: Silence, flow, emptiness as its root.  
- Weaving: People = Pond.  

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## Guiding Question  
Traveler, when you say “we are the people,”  
can you also feel the pond saying “we are one”?
