Tao theory includes the concept of wu wei, acting without acting. Roughly meaning that when one is in complete harmony with nature, no specific action is needed because the very act of being causes the necessary things to happen without effort.
In the original Taoist texts, wu wei is often associated with water and its yielding nature. Although water is soft and weak, it has the capacity to erode even solid stone (see Grand Canyon) and move mountains (see landslides). Water is without will (i.e., the will for a shape), though it can be understood to be opposing wood, stone, or any solid material that can be broken into pieces. It can fill any container, take any shape, go anywhere, even into the smallest holes. When falling as rain in thousands of small drops, water still has the capacity to reunite as it eventually joins the endless seas.
From the wu wei Wikipedia entry.
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