Bringing the discussion back on track how does nirvana (emptiness) relate to Zhuangtzu's work. As I said in my previous post, Zhuangtzu as translated by the OP seems to be about a Cosmic Perspective. If you ask me, once you come face to face with the grandeur and immense, unimaginable size of the cosmos, everything we normally care about looks teeny, insignificant and worthless (sunyata/void).

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmic Perspective puts us in our place, no? Just like how the Buddha attempts to achieve that very same goal by self-abnegation. In comparison to the infinite, we're simply nothing.