Transcript daowater

Dao flows like
water. Water
flows because
it is empty.
‘Form is
emptiness and
emptiness is form’.
 The Heart Sutra
The transient and
the ephemeral as
well as the
enduring share
this emptiness.
 The Budha’s wisdom calls on
humans to seek a ‘middle
way’, while yielding to the
extremes and taking from
them. So, also, the Daoist
vision includes yielding and
appropriating as a form of
genuine strength.
Water seeks its own
level.
Plants seek water.
The seeker of Dao
becomes plant-like.
 1. Dao is tender and flexible (76.1)
 2. Dao is beautiful and yielding (40.1)
 3. The hidden (roots) support the visible
(leaves), which return to the roots when they
perish (16.2)
 4. Dao is hidden nonbeing, the root to which
all return (34.3).
 5. The movement of Dao is seasonal and
cadenced. Thus it is ‘great’ as in Summer,
‘disappearing’ as in Autumn, ‘faraway’ as in
Winter, and ‘returning’ as in Spring (25.2)
 6. Dao is pliant; non-Dao is stiff and dead
(76.1)
 7. Dao is quiet (16.2)
 8. Dao moves always at its own pace and, like
plant, is always giving birth to itself (55.1)
 9. The Daoist celebrates perpetual childhood
(55.2)
 10. Like water (as in Lispector’s Stream of
Life), Dao yields, has depth, and flows around
obstacles and is thus the greatest form of
goodness. Through yielding it wins (78.1)