The Tao of Water

August 21st, 2006 Fred McVittie Posted in Energy, Liquid, Metaphor, Time |

The metaphors which we use to conceptualise time overlap significantly with with those for being and energy. This metaphor is water-based and allows for these three distinct phenomena to be merged or synthesised. A particularly significant example of this synthesis is in the Chinese philosophy of the Tao, (which Alan Watts refers to as ‘The Watercourse Way’ [1975]), and in which these three phenomona are merged into a single concept.