So yet another analogy. Imagine the flow of Dao like that of a great river. This is the moving current of life. Upon birth we enter on one back and swim until we reach the far bank. The question is: Do we aim for straight across and fight the current all the way? Or do we angle our course, swimming with the current while aiming for some point further down the far bank?
Lao Tzu describes the Dao as being like water. Nothing is more gentle and life giving. Then again nothing is more powerful, eroding stone and sweeping away all in its path. To be with the Dao is to be like water. Flowing constantly, always finding one's own level, moving inexorably to join the greater whole. To be one with the Dao is to achieve Christianity's "peace which passeth all understanding."
There are no shortcuts to the far bank. Life is life. You can fight the current or flow with it.
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