 The metaphor shaping most Chinese discussions of pragmatic knowing, choice and behavior was dào—a path or trail. Questions we would phrase in terms of moral propositions, laws, or principles are questions about finding, choosing and following dàos, paths or ways. Dàos can be social or natural structures that guide us in answering practical questions: what to do or how to do it. As the focus of warring Chinese conceptions of guidance, dào guidance has three phases. We must find or notice them, choose one from among those we notice, and then follow or interpret the selected dào in  行 xíngwalking:behavior.  We  辯 biàndistinguish, discover and recognize them; choose or approve (shìthis:right) them or reject (fēinot-that:wrong ) them, and treat them as kěpermissible  or not. Our capacity to engage in these three processes governing natural guiding structures, dàos, is an internal dào—our  德 dévirtuosity.  Our  德 dévirtuosity at interacting with the web of dàos reads and interprets the path-marks thus generating  our  行 xíngwalking:behavior. 