Thursday 8 April 2021

Zhuangzi the Butterfly

My calligraphy practice, from Zhuangzi

This is the famous -- some say "annoying" -- meditation by Zhuangzi. He dreamt he was a butterfly. And then woke up. Didn't know if he was a man who had just dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he was a man. 

I guess we could see it as kinda deep in that stoner, sixties, weed-soaked kind of way, like "deeep man".....

Then again, we could all be part of a simulation. And that's somewhere in mainstream science, these days. So Zhuanzi was, again, in front of the curve, 2,400 years ago.