Gate 28.2: Shaking Hands with the Devil

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Gate
28
Line
2
Centre
Spleen
Gate Name
Great Excess
Line Name
Shaking Hands with the Devil
Line Theme
Confronting fear

Line 2 brings a direct confrontation with fear into the territory of Great Excess. Where this gate concerns itself with pushing beyond normal limits, the second line does so by deliberately facing what frightens it rather than avoiding or managing around it. This is the line that walks toward discomfort rather than away from it, recognising that genuine transformation often requires moving through resistance.

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Provenance: original prose, writer=anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5, facts from gates-library + gate-centers