Daoist

"Why do you like Esperanto, Marko?" "I think Esperanto's like a Zen or Daoist language. It's hard for me to explain." "I think I understand."

Some people base reality in their local sphere. Maybe, most people do not travel enough, I mention to Bratislav. A bit aghast becomes Bratislav, of Croatian ancestry. I tell him about the Daoist notion that one's own garden or local neighbourhood may be a microcosm that reflects macrocosmic reality. All the learning from all the travelling one can do may lie right here locally. A snail on the sidewalk may have a "doppelganger" (Bratislav's conceptual word) in the macrocosm.

I've been to the mountaintop Daoist temple on Cebu Island in the Philippines.

Esperanto, in a sense, is more Daoist or Zen as a language.

We reach Louguantai, the famous Daoist temple where, according to legend, the philosopher Lao Tzu wrote down the Tao Te Ching, his metaphysical map of The Way.