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🦋"Once upon a time, I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhou. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." - #Zhuangzi, Ch 2 tr Burton Watson
#dao #tao #daoism #taoism #zhuangzhou #ChuangTzu #doist #taoist
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The swamp pheasant has to walk ten paces for one peck and a hundred paces for one drink, but it doesn't want to be kept in a cage. Though you treat it like a king, its spirit won't be content.
#Zhuangzi (chapter 3, The Secret of Caring for Life, Watson trans.)
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CW: The seeds of things 3/3
Sheep's Groom couples with bamboo that has not sprouted for a long while and produces Green Peace plants. Green Peace plants produce leopards and leopards produce horses and horses produce men. Men in time return again to the mysterious workings. So all creatures come out of the mysterious workings and go back into them again."
#Zhuangzi (Watson translation, chapter 18) #ChuangTzu #Daoism #Taoism
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CW: Autumn Floods 2/2
"I have heard there is a sacred turtle in Chu, already dead for three thousand years, which the king keeps in a bamboo chest high in his shrine. Do you think this turtle would prefer to be dead and having his carcass exalted, or alive and dragging his tail through the mud?" The emissaries said, "Alive and dragging his tail through the mud." Zhuangzi said, "Away with you then! I too will drag my tail through the mud!"