The line that set the pattern for seasonal therapy, and one of the most argued-over sentences in the corpus. Read simply, it says: work with the season’s own movement instead of against…
The chapter’s title term: the four seasonal qi, and the regimen that answers to each. ‘Regulating the spirit with the four qi’ (四氣調神) means ordering one’s inner life by the season rather…
Not moral goodness in the English sense. De is what something has and does by being itself — and when heaven ‘stores’ it (藏德), the point is that its efficacy is invisible…