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The Butterfly's Dream, or Mine
Even if a love that leapt across time was only a dream, can the heart in it still be called real?
Did Zhuang Zhou dream he was a butterfly, or does the butterfly dream it is Zhuang Zhou?
Waking from his butterfly dream, Zhuangzi asked, "Did I dream I was a butterfly, or is a butterfly dreaming me?" Rather than settle which was real, he accepted that dream and waking soak into each other.
📝The Classic Answers
Waking from his butterfly dream, Zhuangzi asked, "Did I dream I was a butterfly, or is a butterfly dreaming me?" Rather than settle which was real, he accepted that dream and waking soak into each other. To interrogate whether a love across time was a dream may be pointless. If that heart kept me alive, it is already real. I choose not to reserve the name "love" only for what can be proven.
🌱Apply It Today
If you doubt a precious memory because it cannot be proven, judge it instead by whether it once kept you alive.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
