The Hebrew analogy is that nature the result of an agent that molds out of clay the forms of nature. So a tree is made of clay formed by an agent potter. In this analogy, a tree is not wood. It is modeled clay.
In the Indian analogy, a potter making artifacts is not needed. Nature is simply the drama of a mysterious "self" hiding and finding itself over millennia.
In the Chinese analogy, the universe is a self expressing itself. The analogy would be like the speaker on the radio. The sound comes from the speaker but the speaker is not the actual speaker, only a particular modality of the actual "self " expressing itself. The actual speaking is generally called the Tao.
In the Hebrew analogy, the human is comparable to an automobile, an artifact that can be repaired in an automobile shop by specialists. Western Medicine.
Oh well, in any of those analogies, we come and go like ripples on a stream. In the Hebrew analogy, nature is to be conquered. In the others, not so much.
I am inclined to the Tao as the better analogy.
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