![]() According to him, he didn’t even know whether he was dreaming that he was the butterfly or whether the butterfly dreamed that it was Zhuang Zhou. ![]() All of a sudden, he woke up and found that he was Zhuangzi, a solid and unmistakably human man and not a butterfly as his dream had earlier revealed to him. Supposedly, all he was conscious about was his happiness as a butterfly and he was completely unaware that he was Zhang Hou. The story of the butterfly dream as translated by Lin Yutang, tells that once upon a time, he Zhuangzi slept and dreamed that he was a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around, in a happy and ecstatic manner doing whatever he pleased whenever he wanted to. Reportedly, the story has hand great impact on later philosophies that came up in the Eastern and Western parts of the world. According to most interpreters and other Chinese historians, the story of the butterfly dream serves as a clear articulation of the Daosim challenge towards the definition of reality and that of illusion. One of the most popular Daoism parables that are attributed to Zhuangzi/Chuang-Tzu-the Chinese philosopher is the story of the butterfly dream. ![]()
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