Tao. The Way and its power - ACE059.4

Men practising t’ai chi in Daan park in Taipei. Others with swords and similar weapons. "To bring oneself into harmony with the currents of tao is the chief aim of every Chinese …." Wushu (kung fu) practice. Traffic in busy Taiwan street; commentary says that "the sensible man" "co-operates with the currents around him". Man goes to fortune teller "to understand the flow of tao as it affects him". A copy of the I Ching (Book of Changes); commentary explains the trigrams and how they are used to put "the enquirer in touch with the currents of tao…", saying that the I Ching "demands that we think in terms of movement and of verbs … [not of] ‘a man walking’, but of ‘walking that is man-shaped’". Elderly man in street. A fortune-teller will try to help enquirers to "move with the currents and find [their] way harmoniously". Fish.