This isn't a wrong view in an absolute sense (Taoism and Buddhism I suppose "agree more" than say, Taoism and Baha'i - though as soon as you have diverging meta

This isn't a wrong view in an absolute sense (Taoism and Buddhism I suppose "agree more" than say, Taoism and Baha'i - though as soon as you have diverging metaphysics "distance" becomes very hard to characterize). But, it's heavily colored by the fact that one of the earlier popularizers of Buddhism in the English language was also an advocate of Zen as an ideological evolution of Taoism; so he is often selective in how he portrays both leaving many in the West with a view that these ideologies are much closer than have been historically or are in practice today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki