(ChatGPT, 2026-4-19) (菊次郎十六式) If you want, we can go even further (this would be the most dangerous step): 👉 compress all 16 into 4 lines (四句教 version) That would become something like a stone inscription at a roadside shrine. Show me, thanks.

 Alright—this is the compression.

No explanation, no safety net.

🪨 菊次郎十六式 · 四句教（石碑版）

斷而不裂
聽而不取
讓而不為
在而不主

(a very quiet gloss, just once)

• 斷而不裂 —— rupture, but do not shatter
• 聽而不取 —— attune, but do not grasp
• 讓而不為 —— let-be, without doing
• 在而不主 —— be there, without being the master

Then even this gloss can go.

What remains is the stone.