The sage's way: Tao

The sage's way.  Tao is the way of water.
There must be water for life to be,
and it can flow wherever
And water, being true in being water
is true to Tao.
Like a lake the
heart must be calm and quiet
having great depth beneath it.

The sage needs to know like water how to flow around the blocks and how to find the way through without violence  Like water, the sage should wait for the moment to ripen and be right:

Water, you know, never fights, it flows around without harm.