Aesthetics professor Chiang Hsun points out that the words, "Nonbeing is the beginning of heaven and earth; being is the mother of all things" in the first chapter of Laozi go beyond the scope of real-world human experience to directly probe the mysteries of how the universe came into being.
美學教授蔣勳指出，《老子》首章中的「無，名天地之始；有，名萬物之母」，擺脫了現實世界人生的經驗範圍，直接刺探宇宙生成的冥渺幽微。