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Alaric
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12 Feb 2007, 12:53 am

I've felt like many things in my life, but I can categorically state that a butterfly has never, ever been one of them.

But then again, the great Taoist master Chuang Tzu once dreamt that he was a butterfly fluttering here and there. In the dream he had no awareness of his individuality as a person. He was only a butterfly. Suddenly, he awoke and found himself laying there, a person once again. But then he thought to himself, "Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?"

(Personally, my mind works more with the Zen than with the Tao.)


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12 Feb 2007, 4:19 am

He was a butterfly. But how he could remember that he was butterfly, if he could not think at the time when he was butterfly?