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The wonderful dream to expound; The lightning’s bright flash from the thunder-cloud broke, And hail-stones were rattling around. He’d slumbered so long, that now, over his head, The tempest’s artillery rolled; The tulip was shattered – the whirl-blast had fled, And borne off its crimson and gold.
- Robert Allison’s “Chuang-Tzu For Spiritual Transformation"
- Interpretations of Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream
- Zhuangzi’s Great Sage Dream Anecdote
- Buddhist Valid Cognition
- How to Learn to “See Nakedly”
- Similarities Between Taoism and Buddhism
Employing the language of western philosophy, Robert Allison, in "Chuang-tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters" (New York: SUNY Press, 1989), presents a number of possible interpretations of Chuang-tzu’s Butterfly Dream parable, and then offers his own, in which he interprets the story as a metaphor for spiritual awake...
Mr. Allison begins his exploration of Chuang-tzu’s Butterfly Dream anecdote by presenting two frequently used interpretive frameworks: 1. The ”confusion hypothesis” 2. The “endless (external) transformation hypothesis” According to the “confusion hypothesis,” the message of Chuang-tzu’s Butterfly dream anecdote is that we do not really awaken and s...
In other words, Mr. Allison sees Chuang-tzu’s story of the Butterfly Dream as an analogy of the enlightenmentexperience—as pointing to a change in our level of consciousness, which has important implications for anyone engaged in philosophical exploration: Allison supports this “self-transformation hypothesis” in large part by citing another passag...
What is at stake in this philosophical exploration of a Taoist parable is, in part, what in Buddhism is known as the tenets of Valid Cognition, which addresses the question: What counts as a logically-valid source of knowledge? Here’s a brief introduction to this vast and intricate field of inquiry: The Buddhist tradition of Valid Cognition is a fo...
So what does it mean, then, to do this? First, we need to become aware of our habitual tendency to clump together into one tangled mass what in reality are three distinct processes: 1. Perceiving an object (via the sense organs, faculties, and consciousnesses); 2. Assigning a name to that object; 3. Spinning off into conceptual elaboration about th...
If we interpret the Butterfly Dream parable as an allegory that encourages thoughtful individuals to challenge their definitions of illusion and reality, it is a very short step to see the connection to Buddhist philosophy, in which we are encouraged to treat all supposed realities as having the same ephemeral, ever-changing and insubstantial natur...
- Elizabeth Reninger
Clearly, then, the butterfly is an inherently poetic creature. And sure enough, many poets, from the Romantics onwards, have written great poems about butterflies. But what are the very best butterfly poems? Let’s flutter off and take a look … 1. Matsuo Bashō, ‘A Caterpillar’.
Oct 9, 2023 · Learn about The Butterfly Dream, an ancient Chinese parable by Chuang Tzu that questions whether we can know anything to be real.
The Butterfly Dream is a significant allegory in Taoist philosophy and has been used to illustrate the concept of Wu Wei, which translates to “non-action” or “effortless action.” The story emphasizes the importance of letting go of one’s ego and allowing things to unfold naturally.
“The Butterfly Dream” is the most famous story in the Zhuangzi (c. 3rd century bce), one of two foundational texts of Daoism, along with the Daodejing: “Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.
‘The Butterfly’s Dream’ by Hannah F. Gould is a poem about a haughty butterfly and how it meets with a tragic event after waking up from its daydream. In this poem, the poet talks about a butterfly that takes a nap on a tulip.
