the part.

These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories
of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu,
the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage
in the Tao-teking. In jiu-jitsu one seeks to draw out and
exhaust the enemy's strength by non-resistance, vacuum,
while conserving one's own strength for victory in the final
struggle. In art the importance of the same principle is
illustrated by the value of suggestion. In leaving something
unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea
and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention
until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum
is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your
aesthetic emotion.

He who had made himself master of the art of living was the
Real man of the Taoist. At birth he enters the realm of dreams
only to awaken to reality at death. He tempers his own
brightness in order to merge himself into the obscurity of
others. He is "reluctant, as one who crosses a stream in
winter; hesitating as one who fears the neighbourhood;
respectful, like a guest; trembling, like ice that is about to melt;
unassuming, like a piece of wood not yet carved; vacant,
like a valley; formless, like troubled waters." To him the three
jewels of life were Pity, Economy, and Modesty.

If now we turn our attention to Zennism we shall find that
it emphasises the teachings of Taoism. Zen is a name
derived from the Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies