Core Concept: Conscious Temporality (Path One) means building fully while accepting complete impermanence—finding meaning in process rather than permanence.

What It's Not:

• Not nihilism ("nothing matters so why try")
• Not spiritual bypassing ("just be present" while building nothing)

The Four Practices:

1. Death Integration—daily facing mortality for sixty seconds
2. Presence Protocols—actually being where you are
3. Impermanence Acceptance—daily acceptance that everything ends
4. Process Over Outcome—engaging fully with temporary experience

What It Produces:

1. Actual presence in your life
2. Quality over legacy orientation
3. Freedom from need for recognition
4. Peace with ending when things end

The Challenge: Path One offers no consolation—no permanence, no recognition, no story that makes death okay. Just: build anyway, be present, accept ending.

What's Next: The second component of Path One—maintaining conscious temporality without collapsing into nihilism.