Butterfly
or Chuang Tzu or ... ?
'Chuang
Tzu' is an ancient enlightened master from China. He belongs
to the chain of Lao Tzu.
People had always seen him laughing. No one had ever seen
him in grief. But one day he got up in the morning and sat
in grief silently. His friends and the villagers came and
asked him that we have never seen you in grief and pain. You
were always cheerful. Whatever might be the situation but
we always saw you smiling. Why are you dejected today?
Chuang Tzu said to the people, 'Today I am in a puzzle. Last
night I saw a dream in which I became a butterfly. I flew
all over the garden and the flowers and collected the nectar.'
The people said, 'What is the problem in that. You can become
anything in a dream.' Chuang Tzu said, 'Its all right. But
when I got up in the morning, one question has started disturbing
me. If Chuang Tzu can become butterfly in a dream. It is also
possible for a butterfly to sleep and see a dream that it
has become Chuang Tzu. And now I am unable to decide who am
I? Chuang Tzu or butterfly?' Now the people got puzzled, they
had never thought it in this manner.
It becomes very difficult to decide what is true. Not only
in a dream but also in real life. Whatever is seen seems to
be true only because the other people support it. But If all
the people are in the same dream then!!!
What
do you think ?
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