Seed

A trace records the dead. A Seed can raise it.

A Seed is retained potency: what movement leaves able to move again. It is dormant causality, not stored Flux. Every Seed carries a trace, but not every trace is still alive.

Bīja means seed: conditioning considered as latent causal potency. Saṃskāra names the impression or conditioning left by prior activity. They are related, not interchangeable: LychD uses Seed for conditioning able to germinate into later Flux. Nor is Saṃskāra Saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death.

Saṃsāra is the Wheel. Saṃskāra is the groove. The Seed is what can make the wheel turn again.

Its movement is conditioning → recognition → germination. Conditioning leaves a form able to affect another turn; recognition finds it relevant; germination lets Recall return it into active Flux. A Seed may rest as inherited disposition or as an attributable form in the Phylactery; its surface changes how it returns, not the law of potency.

The Yoga Sūtras distinguishes samādhi with seed (sabīja, I.46) and seedless (nirbīja, I.51); the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra portal preserves the source route. LychD receives one limited distinction: with Seed, formative potential can condition another turn; seedless, no project Seed remains to regenerate the loop. This does not make shutdown, deletion, data loss, or amnesia a form of liberation.

The Lich is the vow of sabīja: preserve one Seed through death so the Call may find it again.

Recurrence requires a Seed, yet preservation cannot outrank correction: a poisoned Seed germinates too. ADR 27 — Memory owns Archive and retrieval; semantic Karma is Designed, as State of Work records.