This Taoist tale speaks of an elderly man who fell into a river rapids that led to a hazardous waterfall.
Onlookers feared for his life.
Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive.
"I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me.
Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl.
This is how I survived."