“Reach the utmost emptiness; keep to quiet, and hold it fast. The ten thousand things rise together, and I watch them return.”
The hint
A new lock tonight. Every second letter is noise. Sit with the ones that are not.
The cipher
SQTZIXLVLKNJEWSYSQ
— Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching, XVI · c. 500 BCE
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