The paper examines the tension between Heidegger's early phenomenology of religious life and Daoist thought. I argue that Heidegger's understanding of factical life is marked by a cross-cultural asymmetry: while it opens a path toward understanding the other, it also remains rooted in a specifically European horizon of experience. From this perspective, the presentation seeks to bring out the Eurocentric limits of Heidegger's intercultural understanding.