Tai Chi of Market
Tai chi of market is a concept if understood properly will result in frictionless experience for buyers and sellers. Each market needs two entities. One entity gives and the other entity takes. One who gives goods is called a seller and one who receives goods is called a buyer. However each buyer gives money to the seller and the seller receives the money. Each buyer is a seller of something else and each seller is buyer of something else. Awareness of these facts is vital for an honest transaction.

If sellers become dominant the buyers suffer and if buyers become dominant the sellers suffer. It is not a question of dominance at all but of some intelligent cooperation between two really speaking complimentary entities that apparently look antagonistic. This is so because each individual is a
buyer as well as a seller. Nobody in his senses will weaken his one arm for fighting the other arm.

This chain of buying and selling really extends to infinity. The seller in the market buys from the manufacturer. The manufacturer buys from the farmer or some such person who “buys” from Nature.

The buyer in the market buys it for personal use. He uses it till he is disgusted with it or till it becomes unusable. Sells it to some other person who uses it till it completely breaks down. Spare parts may be used some where or recycled or simply given back to Nature or “claimed” by Nature.

Thus the real buying and selling starts and ends with nature. If this fact is kept in mind some mindlessness in marketplace will become less. If a seller thinks that he is superior to the buyer or if a buyer condescends to buy from a seller as if to oblige him the Tai Chi is disturbed. Complimentarity of each others existence has to be appreciated.

Any kind of disturbance in the form of barriers is certainly detrimental to the market. Anybody who thinks of raising a barrier to prevent sellers from selling or buyers from buying what they want takes the life too seriously and apparently thinks that he or she knows what he or she is doing. Tai chi is a flow and obstruction to any flow will result in a new alignment of forces again on the model of Tai chi but with the barrier in place.

Ideally every seller must place himself in a situation where part of his sales are here and part of the sales are there. This ensures that there is no overdependence on buyers either here or there. The buyers should also position themselves in this fashion.

Governments the world over have tried to regulate the normal trade in any market in the name of ideology, economics, politics or as a means of bullying tactics. Free market as understood by many is taken as a kind of Jungle Law where might is right. This concept of free market is devoid of the desire of wishing well for many. Free market idea is utilized to make money and more money only.

The limits of individual human existence let us know that all of us are equal before death whether we are buyers or sellers. We have bought our body from mother earth and we have to give it back. We got it free and we give it up for free. This is Nature’s Free Market. This is one market where the concept of profit or loss is nonexistent.

Thus when we sell we must feel for the buyer and when we buy we must feel for the seller. This is the Path of Heart. Such transactions create everlasting friendships. Bargaining ends for ever. Buyer implicitly believes in the seller and seller never ever betrays the faith. Buyer pays for the goods without any delaying tactics. This enhances the quality of existence for both parties.

Today this kind of feeling must rise within markets as the world is becoming a small village.