Category: The Five Rings

Five widening circles carry the whole: the Self, the innermost work; the Hearth, the bonds of love and provision; the Commons, the wider civic and economic order; the Cosmos, the more-than-human whole within which all the rest is held; and the Ascent, the dialectical method that binds them and keeps them growing.
Within each ring the principles are gathered into clusters and arranged as deliberate progressions, a foundation, then its tensions, then the counterweights that keep it honest, so that even two hundred and thirty principles read as a single argument rather than a heap of maxims.