Water is life force-It is power and it is gentle, it is hard and it can be soft. Be like water and you are in the Dao. 

Padmapani (1954-), Padmapani is a Dharma teacher, a disciple of the late Ven. Subhadra Goldwater. He has studied and practiced oriental medicine for the past 40 years and is one of the founding members of the the Path to Wisdom project.