I think one of the more profound differences is how we perceive time. In the West, we see ourselves as distinct entities, moving through our context, so we see the future as in front of us and the past behind, while the Eastern view is that the past is in front, because it is known and we can see what is in front of us, while the future is behind, because it is unknown and we can’t see what is behind.

While this view might seem counterintuitive for the Western mind, it does accord with the actual reality, as we see events after they occur and then the energy transmutes to other events.

As mobile creatures, we have a sequential process of perception, as a function of navigation and as humans, we have a narrative based culture, so the sense is of the present, moving past to future, though the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So the real dichotomy of reality is between energy and the forms it expresses. For example, the energy drives and manifests the wave, while frequency and amplitude are the information carried by its undulations.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while feelings and thoughts, as waves of sentience, building and cresting, go future to past.

As these organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through and further distills and organizes the information precipitating out. Motor and steering.

Even galaxies are energy radiating toward infinity, while the mass/forms coalesce toward equilibrium. Cosmic convection cycles.

Though we have this monist culture that can only see one side or the other, say the social expansion of liberalism, versus the civil and cultural consolidation of conservatism, so the other must be wrong, if not evil.

Safe to say, it’s a tough sell, to try arguing it’s more the yin and yang, than God Almighty.