“Li 理 is the asymmetrical, non-repetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the forms of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.
“Tao is the flowing course of nature and the universe; // is its principle of order which….. we can best translate as “organic pattern”; and water is its eloquent metaphor. “
The Watercourse Way”, Alan Watts