There can be many general views on the differences and similarities of the western and Chinese culture, but what whose views express might not be clear to us. What would be the answers to the question: “What is the union of the Heaven and man?” or “What is immanent transcendence?” And “What is the conflict of Man and God?” or “What is external transcendence?” Professor Ly's book Man and Qoi has a very thorough discussion on these concepts, especially Book V chapter 2, “From the two principles, immanence and transcendence, to understand the common characteristic of atheism in the western and Chinese thought”. According to Professor Ly's analysis, immanence and transcendence are two conflicting principles. “Internalism which takes internal principle as the absolute principle necessarily expels the so-called external or vertical transcendental principle.” That is, talking of internality excludes the talk of transcendence. There are three problems one has to face up to, if one talks of Chinese culture in terms of “immanent transcendence”: 1) where is the driving force? 2) How do we define the direction? 3) Can we make sense of it? Internality cannot explain transcendence, only externality can. To talk of “externality” does not mean that internality is bad, but that internality is “not good enough”. Due to the fact that it is not good enough, it positively longs for the better. The kind of longing point to a “transcendent state”. Explicitly speaking, the starting point, “from immanence to transcendence”, affirms man's initiative; the direction, “from extenality to transcendence”, affirms the possibility of the combination of man and the transcendent state.