What a difference from the Greeks and Indians! For them, reality was nowhere to be found in the material world. For the Taoists, reality informed everything around them, no matter how lowly. The Tao didn't exist in an abstract Idea of wood, as Plato was suggesting. It wasn't concealed within the wood, as the Indians conceived atman. Instead, it quite simply was the wood. “You must not expect to find the Tao in any particular place,” Master Zhuang explained to his companion. “There is no thing that escapes its presence!”
Reality is here. Not in some other world
