In the East, Buddhists "awaken to the truth" of the characteristics of the Buddha, whereas Confutianists and Taoists speak of a union of heaven and man, which involves a realm where the individual merges with the universal.
在東方，佛家證悟到所謂的佛性、儒道則說天人合一，是個人與宇宙連結融合的境界。