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For anyone who’s sure they’re seeing it right.
In chapter 2 of the Zhuangzi, Zhuang Zhou dreams he’s a butterfly, happy and with no idea he was ever a man. He wakes and can’t tell: was he a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or is he a butterfly now dreaming he’s a man? He never says.
Go into his dream. Keep going. Then try waking someone up.
Every point of view feels like waking life from inside. Zhuangzi doesn’t say they’re all equal, only that you can’t prove yours is the last word.
Ask yourself. What would you see differently if your view of this turned out to be the dream?
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