Gate 12 — Standstill — Caution

Full breakdown

The quality of restraint, together with the importance of meditation and non-action in the face of temptation.

Gate 12 sits in the one social channel of the individual process, and as such it's the only way mutation can find its way into the world. This gate opens toward the Solar Plexus center, which means it lives under the same pressure as gate 35 — the pressure of the emotional wave. Everything about gate 12 comes down to the nature of its voice, which says: "I know I can try, if I'm in the mood." That's the key to gate 12. The heading above its lines reads: the quality of restraint, together with the importance of meditation and non-action in the face of temptation. Gate 12 has to hold back until the mood arrives. This is the Gate of Standstill: "I'm in no hurry. I'll wait until I'm in the mood." That's the key to everything said about gate 12 — the key to its essence and to the nature of its action.