The original text of Zhuangzi Dream Butterfly.
In the past, Zhuang Zhoumeng was a butterfly, lifelike, and compared with historical records. I didn'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? Zhou and butterfly, there must be points. This is called materialization.
Translation of Zhuangzi's Dream Butterfly
In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he had become a butterfly, a very vivid butterfly. How happy and comfortable he feels! I didn't know I was Zhuang Zhou. I suddenly woke up and suddenly knew it was my Zhuang Zhou. I wonder if Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream, or if the butterfly became Zhuang Zhou in his dream? There must be a difference between Zhuang Zhou and Butterfly. This can be called crop, my interaction and change.
On Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly Philosophy
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Epilepsy in Zhuangzi.
The happiness of becoming a butterfly is full of emotion! Drum basin singing, this is leisurely!
Teaching music and preaching are born with literary talent! From dust to the world, ancient wizards!
Epilepsy in Zhuangzi II
Wang Zuo who is willful and hard-working! Natural spirit, do not envy you!
Zhuangzi hasn't changed, he is full of energy! Almighty Qian Qian, like me?
? What about Zhuang? It is Zhuangzi's philosophical argument through his story. What is the philosophical topic it discusses? As the subject of cognition, can people really distinguish between reality and illusion? .
Detailed explanation
Zhuangzi explained this in the form of a story as follows: The previous dream of Zhuang Zhou was a butterfly, lifelike. 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. ?
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 do 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 hallucinations 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. In Zhuang Zhou's view, they are just a phenomenon, a form and a stage in the Tao movement.
Zhuangzi is using a simplest fable to illustrate one of the heaviest problems of mankind, that is, the problem of life and death.
Pursue the essence
On the surface, Zhuangzi is always lively and natural and unrestrained, but in essence, it is not difficult to see from Zhuangzi's thinking about the pain of life that the premise of his philosophy of life is persistence? Become? A pessimistic attitude. Although Zhuangzi is extremely free, it also pursues freedom? There is nothing to wait for. Life, but this does not mean that life is free, Zhuangzi does not deny this. So, even in the most unrestrained "free travel", he still said: And the product of husband's water is not thick, then the negative boat is weak. Cover the depression with a glass of water, and the mustard will sail; If you cover a cup, it's glue. Shallow water makes a big boat. The wind is not thick and its negative wing is weak, so the wind is under Wan Li. ? Fu Liezi went against the wind, and Ling Ran was good. He went against the wind for five days in ten days. Blessed people are not karma. Although this is not necessary, there are still some things to do. So sad! Even the Peng bird flying south and the fierce son walking against the wind are far from being free and restrained everywhere, so what kind of pity will a small person like a sparrow jump around among the elms! Here, after all, there is a certain distance between Zhuangzi's ideal of free life and reality. Suck the wind and drink the dew, ride the cloud to fight the dragon? The mountain god is only a virtual existence, but in reality there are many unfortunate people who are at the mercy and suffering of fate, such as the scattered and Shen Tujia people. Are you online? What about Zhuang? Before, in your conversation with Jing, Jing said: I am waiting, but who is evil? I'm waiting for evil? I treat snakes with evil wings? Why is evil knowledge? Bad knowledge, so otherwise? Zhuangzi's tragic fatalism, which clearly expresses his sufferings in life, is actually? What about Zhuang? It also implies the premise of understanding existence, does not distinguish between butterfly dream and Zhuang dream, and does not know the truth and illusion of butterfly and Zhou. Doesn't this reflect Zhuangzi's feeling of individual smallness and similarity? I don't know the future of auricularia auricula, but I don't know the spring and autumn. Ignorant but not free pessimism? So Zhuangzi couldn't help feeling tears. It is small, so it belongs to people. ?
On the basis of this pessimistic fatalism, the pain and impermanence of life are inevitable. What about Zhuang? Looming in the middle? Life seems illusory, and eventually there will be nothing? Doubts about the truth of life. Zhuang Zhou set the problem of human existence in a dream, which is actually implied by fables? Life is like a dream? . Zhuangzi was born again. His cherish and persistence in life made him feel that life was short and fleeting, and it was difficult to grasp and recognize the short life, so he felt unreal. Moreover, when people are questioned as being, it is really difficult to distinguish them. If you don't know today, you don't know Zhou in your dream; Knowing the dream is equal to not knowing the week. People who dream for a hundred years in the world will never dream for a hundred years. ? Because of the contingency of individual existence and the existence of perceptual factors, the authenticity of existence is easily lost in the phenomenon world, and people's self-consciousness will also be lost in it, so it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Zhuangzi tried his best to pursue the truth of existence, but relativism in On Everything dragged him into the infinite cycle of cognition and speculation, which was caused by being divorced from a specific objective time and space condition? I realize I'm still alive? The sense of existence is temporarily suspended, and the sense of reality is lost? Did you get it? Life is like a dream? The feeling. To this, there are two paragraphs in Zhuangzi and? What about Zhuang? Quite similar, can be regarded as both the application of fable and the correct application? Life is like a dream? Prove:
Dream of drinking and crying; People who dream and cry are hunting. Fang Meng Qi, I don't know his dream. In the dream, it occupies its dream, and then you know its dream. Then take a deep sleep and know the big dream, and fools think they are secretly aware of it. Jun Hu, MuHu, solid zai! Qiu is also a woman, and both of them are dreaming; A female dream is also a dream. ? Homogeneous object theory
When did Zhuangzi arrive? What about Zhuang? Thinking about the way of being. Life is like a dream? When he was lost in illusion, he had a kind of lost sadness. Ye Lang said,? Wen Yiduo said that Zhuangzi's thoughts and works are all about his hometown, a cry of homesickness and a sacred sorrow. Therefore, Zhuangzi is a philosophy, because all great philosophers are seeking the spiritual home of mankind; Zhuangzi is a poem, because missing hometown is the interest of poetry; Zhuangzi is also beautiful, because, as Kant said, all the highest beauty makes people feel melancholy. If you suddenly lose something, it is like missing your hometown on the trip. ? From where? What about Zhuang? Can you really taste the sacred sadness and deep melancholy? It seems that the whole Zhuangzi has that kind of lost spiritual home? Homeless? ：
Once it forms me, I won't wait for it. What works is moving, day and night, and I don't know when it will end. With its formation, I know that life can't ignore the fact that the mound in front of it looks like a sunset. I've thought about you all my life, but I don't feel sorry for Tian Zifang.
Individual people are accidentally thrown into the world (? As soon as I was formed by it, I didn't wait for it? ), but in this accidental phenomenon world? A sink? (? The effect is very touching, day and night, I don't know where it will end. ) chew carefully. I miss you all my life? It is the loss of opportunity and Zhuangzi's loss of self in the butterfly image, which is the real loss of the subject.
At the same time, there are contradictions in understanding itself. ? What about Zhuang? Being lost in the universe also has a strong philosophical meaning. Seeing the blindness and sadness of human beings and looking up at the silence of the whole universe, human beings are abandoned to themselves without any light, just like being lost in a corner of the universe. I don't know who put him here, what he will do, what he will become after death, and it is impossible to have any knowledge. ? [7] The existence and pursuit of mankind as a whole seems to have lost its fundamental significance and value base, which is tragic and embodied in? What about Zhuang? It is to pursue the coexistence of spirit and lost emotions. And the limitations of understanding have also caused people's? Become? And restrict people's freedom of movement.
Although? What about Zhuang? Full of tragic consciousness, but Zhuangzi didn't make the list? You and I are illusory, too? Is it pessimism or nihilism? People can accept absurdity while living, but they can't live in absurdity. ? He also admitted? Are there any points in the weekly meeting? . Zhuangzi has the optimistic transcendental spirit of China's philosophy, which is from finite to infinite, so he wants to? Everything is mine, life and death? That? Materialization? Field.
Besides,? What about Zhuang? Transcendence is embodied in life and death, and it also embodies the optimism of China's philosophy, or? Knowing heaven and being happy? Peace and prosperity? , it, after all, as long as the philosophical transcendence, rather than seeking a positive struggle in reality:
Yin and yang are for people, not for parents. I don't listen to them until I die, but I'm fierce. What's the crime? ? Chess master
As a result, Zhuangzi? Infiltrate life with tragic feelings and transcend life with humorous feelings? He changed from tragic fatalism to traditional fatalism? Happy to know the sky? Optimism, which is related to Confucianism? It was not easy for him to care about his inner joys and sorrows before. Knowing that you can't live in peace, you will have great virtue. ? The spirit of rites and music is quite similar, and the reason is related to the musical sense culture of witch history produced by agricultural civilization in China? And then what? Concept and? Harmony between man and nature? The persistent pursuit of this world is inseparable from the way of thinking and is the common wish of Confucianism and Taoism. As far as spiritual intention is concerned, this desire is embodied in taking the happiness of secular life as the basis of the spiritual world. ? Therefore, China's ancient outlook on life was always optimistic.
Secondly, the aesthetic transcendence of music culture? Harmony between man and nature? The way of thinking involves another problem. To sum up,? What about Zhuang? Starting from the perceptual life, we get a tragic understanding of life by questioning individual existence, and Zhuangzi's awakening consciousness also makes him show a kind of sadness left over from the world. However, Zhuangzi, who is romantic and free, does not indulge in it, but transcends the limited tragic life in real life. Reveal the truth with beauty? Grasp the true state of existence and pursue the ideal state of freedom? Man's poetic dwelling.
In other words: people must exist before they have thoughts. Existence is realistic, thoughts are produced in reality, but thoughts themselves are illusory. Only when people's real existence needs are met and their existence is guaranteed can they produce illusory thoughts. Therefore, when Zhuang Zhou put forward the question of who dreams who between him and the butterfly, his existing needs must be met and his real existence must be guaranteed, before he put forward this illusory question and thought. But: the illusory question or thought itself put forward by Zhuang Zhou, namely? Do I exist? In fact, it is a problem that can only be proved in reality. And then what? What about Zhuang? The reason why the problem has not been solved so far is that people have not gone to reality to find proof, but have tried to find answers in illusory thoughts, which can only be reduced to fantasy or idle talk.