context 4: general #510

Watching this series of short videos on water you get a another idea of the meaning of “Daoist philosophy in movement”.

In water you can indeed observe incredible liveliness. Moreover, in all its complex transformations and adaptations water preserves its oneness. It is a major model for the Daoists.

From the perspective of ancient Daoists, the Daodejing in particular, the philosophy that their circle admired was not man-made and intellectually constructed. The philosophy they admired was embedded in natural phenomena, in what they observed and sensed in their natural environments. They then transformed and translated it into human language—words, ideas, and the general concepts and organizational patterns they worked with.

A Daoist bodymind practice is a means to experience, work with, and tune in with this philosophy.