| Edition 1 - 1975 |
Edition 2 - 1978 |
Edition 3 - 1979 |
Edition 4 - 1996 |
Edition 5 - 2001 |
| Abandon normal instruments | Abandon normal instructions | Abandon normal instruments |
| Accretion | Adding on | Accretion |
| Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) | Remove a restriction | Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) |
| Are there sections? Consider transitions | Consider transitions | Are there sections? Consider transitions |
| Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency | Change nothing and continue consistently | Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency |
| Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor | Find a safe part and use it as an anchor | Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor |
| Destroy -nothing -the most important thing | Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing | Destroy -nothing -the most important thing |
| Disconnect from desire | Abandon desire | Disconnect from desire |
| Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them | Discover your formulas and abandon them | Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them |
| Distorting time | Distort time | Distorting time |
| Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do | Don't avoid what is easy | Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do |
| Don't be frightened of cliches | Use cliches | Don't be frightened of cliches |
| Don't be frightened to display your talents | Display your talent | Don't be frightened to display your talents |
| Honor thy error as a hidden intention | Your mistake was a hidden intention | Honor thy error as a hidden intention |
| Humanise something free of error | Make what's perfect more human | Humanise something free of error |
| Is there something missing? | Is something missing? | Is there something missing? |
| Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them | Magnify the most difficult details | Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them |
| Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate | Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable | Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate |
| Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list | Do the last thing first | Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list |
| Overtly resist change | Openly resist change | Overtly resist change |
| Remember .those quiet evenings | Remember quiet evenings | Remember .those quiet evenings |
| Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics | Change ambiguities to specifics | Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics |
| Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities | Change specifics to ambiguities | Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities |
| Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance | Take away the important parts | Take away the elements in order of apparent non importance |
| You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas | Use your own ideas | You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas |