[Remake]

"Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a dachshund [...] unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke [...]. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a dachshund, or whether I am now a dachshund, dreaming I am a man."

– *not Zhuangzi (he was in fact a dachshund)

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“Rather than using words to conceptualize, categorize, and artificially differentiate between right and wrong, benefit and harm, self and others, the Zhuangzi encourages attending to an undifferentiated whole.“

Foundations: ethics, parables, and fish,” Ch. 1, p. 20.

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莊子的蝴蝶之梦 - 里弗斯
Zhuāngzi de Húdié zhī Mèng - Lǐ Fú Sī
Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly - Li Fu Si

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“Where there is birth there will be death. Where there is death there will be birth …this is just the natural way of things. The sage rejects extremes and abides in the way, the dao.”

The Art of Being, Free and Easy Wandering - Inner Chapters from Zhuangzi

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"He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord."
~ Chuang Tzu, 476–221 BC

[Zhuangzi contemplates waterfall]

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"He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord."
~ Chuang Tzu, 476–221 BC

[Zhuangzi contemplates waterfall]

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"A human life is like the effect of a white horse rushing by a tiny aperture, flashing brightly for the briefest blink of time."
- The Zhuangzi: A Journey to the North

Horseman at Sunrise.
Acrylic paint on canvas. 33x44 inches.

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I feel bad for Hui Shi. Nowadays he's known as a pointless old logician, but the Stratagems show him as a total wideboy. You can see why Zhuangzi was so fond of him.

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Every time I research more about Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream, the Eight Consciousnesses of Buddism, and Dao/Taoism I find myself referring back to Kara no Kyoukai and end up falling more in love with the series and it's themes.

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莊子 2.3:非彼無我,非我無所取。
Zhuangzi 2.3: Without "that..." there is no "my...." Without "my... " there is nowhere to capture.
https://t.co/0Eyxo4BLGB

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“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

art

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“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.” ~Zhuangzi

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The 20th Story of the Jingu Qiguan:
“Zhuangzi gaslights his 3rd wife into committing adultery and subsequently suicide to make a point, does a drumroll and leaves”

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found out something kinda cool rn, apparently the face Philemon has at the end of Persona 1 is actually supposed to be Zhuangzi, the guy who wrote the butterfly poem in the games intro
i always thought it was supposed to be a grown up Naoya,,

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"Fluye con lo que pueda suceder y deja que tu mente sea libre: mantente centrado aceptando lo que estés haciendo. Esto es lo esencial.“
~Zhuangzi
https://t.co/UYBq1mFQCp

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“この世界の北の果て、波も冥い海に魚がいて、その名は鯤という。その鯤の大きさは、いったい何千里あるのか見当もつかないほどの、とてつもない大きさだ。 この巨大な鯤が転身の時を迎えると、姿を変えて鳥となる。その名は鵬という”

はじめて読んだ時、唖然とした😅

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An OC inspired by one of the story in "Zhuangzi" book about a man wondering if he was a man who dreamed of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of being a man

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インドにおいては観念論的な思想であった仏教が、中国においては生活の中の実践哲学(禅)となっていったわけですが、その際に老荘思想が果たした役割は非常に大きい 🤔

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