Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human? — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened? — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman –… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image