A seasonal installation
The body keeps
more than one clock.
Day. Season. Body. Older practice read all three as conditions a body sits inside. Two of them are shared by everyone standing in the same place on the same day; the third is what turns shared context into a personal model.
Move across the glyphs to part them
Three clocks
Day
昼 · 夜
Light and dark set when a thing should happen.
Season
处暑
Twenty-four solar terms. Today sits in End of Heat.
Body
—
Your own response. This is the clock only you have.
The calendar supplies context. The individual supplies response. Two of these clocks are shared by everyone; the third is the reason the same routine gives different results.
Part the old language
Translation, not inheritance.
Four things the tradition noticed, and what Dao Living does with each. Every observation is described rather than quoted, and every dose, window and measurement is modern.
From three clocks to one reading
- The Living Almanac
- gives the year.
- The Dao Living Framework
- defines what can be tested.
- The Instrument
- turns context into something to do today.
Built on the Dao Living Framework.
Photograph: Temple of Heaven, Beijing — Balon Greyjoy, released into the public domain (CC0) via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, sky removed and graded for this page. Curtain physics adapted from physics-rope (MIT, © 2018 James Wrightson).
No line on this page is presented as a quotation from a classical text. Where a work is named, Dao Living is describing it.