For these reasons, crops planted at the proper time will: 1. Smell fragrant, taste sweet, and have ample qi. 2. Eating them for over 100 days will lead to keen hearing, clear sight, and a sharp and intelligent mind and will. 3. The four limbs will become stronger and evil spirits will not enter the body. The body will not suffer intestinal maladies or misfortune. The document discusses the importance of proper timing when planting crops. It notes that crops planted at the right time will have desirable qualities and eating them can improve one's health and senses. Proper timing is meant to integrate both intrinsic qualities and responding appropriately to external conditions.

1. For these reason, crops planted at the proper time: 時 Smell fragant, Taste sweet, And have ample qi Eat them more than a hundred days And the ear is keen of hearing,the eye clear-sighted The mind and yi are sharp and intelligent The four limbs become stronger Evil emanations froms spirits do not enter the body And the body suffers no intestinal malady or misfortune Book 26 Cap 6 Lushi chunqiu ( the Annals of Lu Buwei )

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6. The term proper timing is meant to summon up images that integrate both intrinsic timing and extrinsic timely actions. Proper timing is that overall experience of performing Actions with an intrinsic quality and extrinsic correspondence.

7. Extrinsic time: when human action are performed in accordance with either natural or social conditions,there is a timeley fit Intrinsic time: is the quality of an action that is achieved creatively and spontaneously with a timing intrinsic to the act itself. No depend on a given order. It is not determined by external conditions, though it may depend on them. Intrinsic time is associated with the Proper fit between tha acction and its performer, it is a qualitative experience Grecia: crono ( duaration of events ) – kairos ( proper time or season for action

8. Yi jing: It is not enougth to simply said that “ things change “ The quantitative measurement of duration or change is made in order to gain insight into the appropriate qualitative moment to take action.

9. 時 zhì 待 dài 偫 因 yi 勢 shi

10. Adapt to “ it is “ ( yin shi 因 是 ) , and stop there.Stopping there,and not even Being aware that one is doing so – this is what we call the Way 因 Following or adapting I follow the Heavenly pattern,thrusting into big hollows, Guiding the knife through the big openings,and adapting my movements To the fixed nature of the ox ( 因其固然 )