This feels very Buddhist or even Hindu in its thinking. Now one could debate whether it was, to what degree it was influenced by Buddhism. It is a very central idea that all of reality, all of sentience is emergent from this atman, from this Brahman, from this original mind, emerges from the emptiness. But what makes it Neo-Confucian is beyond the metaphysical, beyond the philosophical, they bring it down to reality. They bring it down to practical concerns. How does this affect how one governs? How does this affect how one should learn?