"How does it come about that the biblical God has something in common with Chuang-tzu’s Way? There are two reasons. First, neither of them tries to know the Source of all things, that is, God or the Way, by means of reason. Instead, they try to realize the Source with their whole body and mind by becoming a nothingness, by becoming free from attachment to things, and by trying to live in perfect accord with the 'working' of the Source. Second, both of them deny the argument from causation to God advocated by Greek philosophy. Instead of trying to deduce God’s existence and essence by appealing to a law of cause-and effect, they resort to “meta-ethical leaps” into nothingness and self-liberation in order to live in the midst of the 'workings' of the Source, in order to know (yãdã) the Way and God. As a result, unlike Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu regards the Way as an inner moving force, and all things in this universe as dynamic beings in motion. Likewise, the biblical God as a 'meta-dynamism,' infinitely transcending every kind of dynamic motion. He is in essence a 'God at work' ... The Way is the moving force within us. In the Christian sense of the word, the Way is the moving force of the Incarnate Son of God. He 'has come to live within us' who are traveling with him essentially."
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