He did his Master's thesis on the Huangdi Bo Shu, a book unearthed several years ago by archeologists in China. Near the end of his thesis, he described the dao as the principle which guides how nature works, but a German friend read this and disagreed, saying, "The dao is much more than that.
他以黃帝帛書相關的內容作為碩士論文，在文末，點出「道」是指天的運行，一位德國朋友看了這樣的結論卻一再說：道根本不是你說的這樣而已，道更玄虛，更奧妙，更不可思議。