Chapter 29 a big dream

Existentialists use this as a metaphor for life. They say that life is like you wake up in a completely strange country in the middle of the night and find that your hands and feet are tied up, and you don't know where you are, who you are, or where you are going. Life does have a dreamlike quality, and there are times when we ask ourselves if we are dreaming. Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly, woke up and asked himself: Did I dream of a butterfly, or did the butterfly dream of me? Zhuang Zhouxiao dreamed of butterflies, which just explained the strange feeling that life is like a dream.

Gao Jiefu, a master of metaphysics, said: Everyone doesn't know what they are doing, they are only dreaming about their age. What Gauthev said is not a metaphor, but he really thinks that when a person is speaking, he really does not know that he is speaking. Try to be clearly aware of the speaking self when you speak, knowing that you are speaking, listening, and feeling.Gautheff said that you can wake up from this lucid dream only when you become aware of yourself who is walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. Buddhists call this internal enlightenment, and Buddha means awakening.

Otherwise life is just a big dream.