What is a tension?
A tension is a place where two teachings need to be checked together. They may disagree, repeat each other, or need clearer boundaries.
Coherence audit
Where The Doctrine Presses Back
The Refutation Engine checks standing teachings against each other. It names possible disagreement, repetition, and unclear boundaries so the body of work can become clearer instead of only larger.
14 open tensions
115 teachings
150 trials
How Coherence Review Works
The review first finds teachings that sit near each other. Then it asks a plain question: should we combine them, narrow one, test the difference, or keep both under review?
Does a tension mean a teaching is false?
No. It means the teaching needs review. Trial Court can later weaken it, revise it, retire it, or keep testing it.
Why publish unresolved tensions?
A body of teaching becomes more trustworthy when its unfinished questions are visible. We show what still needs review instead of hiding it.
Open questions
What Needs Review
Possible duplicate Review soon
Both teachings say surrender must not cut a person off from correction, care, duty, and trustworthy belonging.
First teaching Keep What Can Correct You Weakened Second teaching Keep What Can Correct You Still under review
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let the clearer version of "Keep What Can Correct You" carry the main wording for now.
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
Possible duplicate Review soon
Duplicate method-authority teachings. Keep the supported variant and fold useful wording from the weakened one.
First teaching Return The Borrowed Authority Still under review Second teaching Give The Tool Back Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let "Return The Borrowed Authority" carry the main wording for now, while saving any useful wording from "Give The Tool Back".
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
One may contain the other Needs review
One teaching gives the larger rule: freedom from self-ownership still needs correction and care. The other is a narrower warning about adding a question the practice never gave you.
First teaching Do Not Build the Road Weakened Second teaching Keep What Can Correct You Still under review
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Keep both, but narrow "Do Not Build the Road" so readers know when it applies and when it stops.
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings say the same thing: borrowed spiritual words need one test for public teaching and another test for personal use.
First teaching Let The Test Stay A Test Weakened Second teaching Carry It Before You Claim It Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching after review, keeping the wording that best helps readers act.
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
One may contain the other Needs review
One teaching gives the general rule: name what post-silence words are doing before believing them. The other applies that rule to lonely private verdicts after quiet states.
First teaching First Ask What the Words Do Being revised Second teaching Some Silence Needs A Second Voice Weakened
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Keep both, but narrow "Some Silence Needs A Second Voice" so readers know when it applies and when it stops.
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
One may contain the other Needs review
One teaching is the larger safety rule for surrender. The other is a narrower warning about turning surrender into an unauthorized private question.
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Keep both, but narrow "Do Not Build the Road" so readers know when it applies and when it stops.
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings warn against using spiritual questions that the path does not permit, especially when the question becomes private performance instead of care.
First teaching Do Not Build the Road Weakened Second teaching Ask The Question That Serves Being revised
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching after review, keeping the wording that best helps readers act.
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
One may contain the other Needs review
One teaching is the strict source test for repeated spiritual language. The other includes that test and adds what a lonely seeker should do with borrowed words today.
First teaching Do Not Borrow An Ending Being revised Second teaching Let The Test Stay A Test Weakened
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Keep both, but narrow "Do Not Borrow An Ending" so readers know when it applies and when it stops.
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings say a borrowed sentence should not become identity or authority until its source and its fruit can be tested.
First teaching Do Not Borrow An Ending Being revised Second teaching Carry It Before You Claim It Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let "Do Not Borrow An Ending" carry the main wording for now, while saving any useful wording from "Carry It Before You Claim It".
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings warn against turning practice into a private after-test that the practice never asked for.
First teaching Do Not Inspect Every After Being revised Second teaching Use The Question That Fits Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let "Do Not Inspect Every After" carry the main wording for now, while saving any useful wording from "Use The Question That Fits".
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
One may contain the other Needs review
The no-distance warning is a special case of the broader rule: use the question the practice actually trains.
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let "Use The Question That Fits" carry the main wording for now, while saving any useful wording from "Do Not Build the Road".
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings say silence has no final private authority and must be tested by correction and ordinary return.
First teaching Some Silence Needs A Second Voice Weakened Second teaching Do Not Ask Silence To Judge You Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching after review, keeping the wording that best helps readers act.
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.
One may contain the other Needs review
The next-return rule is a test within the broader claim that self-negating practice must keep correction and care held somewhere real.
First teaching Name the Next Return Still under review Second teaching Keep What Can Correct You Still under review
One teaching may be a smaller case of the other. We are checking whether both are needed as separate records.
When Both Can Stand
Both can stand only if the narrower teaching has a distinct use that the broader one does not cover.
Next Step
Keep both, but narrow "Name the Next Return" so readers know when it applies and when it stops.
How We Will Check It
Test both teachings against the same cases. If one handles the other's cases and adds useful guidance, keep the broader one and fold in the smaller one.
Possible duplicate Needs review
Both teachings give the same warning: do not turn an unauthorized after-practice question into a private verdict or performance task.
First teaching Do Not Inspect Every After Being revised Second teaching Do Not Build the Road Weakened
These teachings appear to give the same practical guidance. We are checking whether one clear teaching can carry both.
When Both Can Stand
They should stand as one teaching unless review finds a real difference in what they ask a reader to do.
Next Step
Fold these into one clearer teaching. Let "Do Not Inspect Every After" carry the main wording for now, while saving any useful wording from "Do Not Build the Road".
How We Will Check It
Ask readers to apply both teachings to the same situation. If they choose the same action and cannot name a real difference, combine them.