Once upon a time, Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he had become a butterfly, a dancing butterfly. I am very happy and carefree, and I don't know that I am Zhuang Zhou. After a while, I woke up, but it was Zhuang Zhou lying in bed. I wonder if Zhuang Zhou's dream turned into a butterfly, or if the butterfly's dream turned into Zhuang Zhou?
This fable is a famous article showing Zhuangzi's thought of homogeneity. Zhuangzi believes that if people can break the boundaries between life and death, things and me, they will be unhappy. It is light and ethereal, and is often quoted by philosophers and writers.
There is a quip in Zhuangzi Butterfly Dream: "The dream of Zhouzhuang was a butterfly, lifelike. This is a metaphor for getting along with others, but I don't know Zhou Ye. If you suddenly feel it, you will suddenly feel it. I wonder if Zhou's dream is a butterfly and Zhou's dream is a butterfly and? There must be differences between Zhou and Butterfly. This is called materialization. "
The Nightmare Shadow, written by Juck Zhang of A Qing Dynasty, can be called bean jelly of hot modern people. Zen can't be said, and it can't be translated. There is such a quip in "Shadow of Dreams", which can be said to point out the essence of Zhuangzi's philosophy: "Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly, Zhuang Zhouxing; Dream butterfly is Zhuang Zhou, and the misfortune of butterfly is also. "
Isn't it? It is Zhuang Zhou's great fortune that become a butterfly is a butterfly, moving from a noisy life to a happy life. The butterfly dream is Zhuang Zhou, and it is probably the sorrow of the butterfly to step into the noisy life from the carefree realm.
But Zhuang Zhoumeng's butterfly is his yearning realm and his yearning choice. Not everyone longs for a happy life. Butterflies dream of Zhuang Zhou, which is their choice. We can't generalize
This theory is widely used in philosophy. Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly is a philosophical argument put forward by Zhuangzi, who believes that it is impossible for people to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Zhuangzi explained this in the form of a story as follows: "The dream of Qianzhuang Zhou was a butterfly, which was vivid. Self-metaphor and ambition! I don't know, Zhou Ye. If you suddenly feel it, you will suddenly feel it. I wonder if Zhou Zhimeng is a butterfly and? What is the butterfly's dream? There must be differences between Zhou and Butterfly. This is called materialization. " [From "Zhuangzi's Internal Chapter, Theory of Homogeneous Things II"]
Zhuangzi dreamed that he became a butterfly one day. When he woke up, he found that he was still Zhuangzi, so he didn't know whether he dreamed of a butterfly in Zhuangzi or a butterfly in Zhuangzi. Here, Zhuangzi raised a philosophical question-how people know the truth. If dreams are real enough, people have no ability to know that they are dreaming.
In the eyes of ordinary people, what a person sees and feels when he is awake is real, and dreams are all illusions and unreal. Zhuangzi doesn't think so. Although, waking is a realm, dreams are another realm, and the two are different; Zhuang Zhou is Zhuang Zhou, and butterflies are butterflies. They are different, too. But in Zhuang Zhou's view, they are just a phenomenon, a form and a stage in the Tao movement.