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What is Reality?

5/30/2019

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around,
happy with himself and doing as he pleased.
He didn't know he was Zhuangzi.

Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi.
But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly or
a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi.

Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be some distinction!
This is called the Transformation of Things.

昔者莊周夢為胡蝶
栩栩然胡蝶也
自喻適志與
不知周也
俄然覺
則蘧蘧然周也
不知周之夢為胡蝶與
胡蝶之夢為周與
周與胡蝶
則必有分矣
此之謂物化