Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Chinese traditional
philosophical terms is their deeply rooted ambiguity readily obserVed in
the absence of strictly technical vocabulary in Chinese science and
philosophy which upsets so much the scholars obsessed with the
precision of their language Epistemologically this ambiguity refers to
the contingency of subjective and objective or symbolical and empirical
aspects of human experience. The task of thinking in Chinese tradition is
not to secure the intellect's hold of consciousness, the rule of the
subjective ego over the totality of experienc~ but, on the contrary, to
dissolve ego's boundaries and, so to say, to universalize consciousness, in chinese terms - "to embody the heart of Heaven and Earth".
