Up at dawn … practice in the first few hours of the morning (or late at night) … personal study for the rest of the morning … social lunch … recreation in the afternoon, out of doors if possible: gardening, walking about; indoors in poor weather: painting, calligraphy, reading literature, writing poems … summer excursions further afield: to picnic at beauty spots, go swimming, look for special sunrises, sunsets and views of the moon ….
After John Blofeld, Taoism. The Quest for Immortality (London, 1979)