Characteristics of the Self‐Actualized Person: Visions From the East and West

This article compares and contrasts the ways that Chinese Taoism and Zen Buddhism view the development of human potential with the ways that the self‐actualization theories of Rogers and Maslow describe the human potential movement. Many similarities exist between the ways that Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and the self‐actualization theories of Rogers and Maslow describe the characteristics of the optimally functioning person.