Daoist Philosophy: Life and Death | Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- A man dreams he is a butterfly. When he wakes up, did he dream he was a butterfly, or does a butterfly now dream it is a man? A story about life and the fear of death, or about being at ease, or about shifting identity?
#Zhuangzi #Daoism #Philosophy
Sources:
Zhuangzi: ctext.org/zhuangzi
Guo Xiang commentary: ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&res=7...
Brook Ziporyn, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings. Hackett: 2020. (Recommended)
A.C. Graham, Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. Hackett: 2001.
Contributors:
Script: Hans-Georg Moeller (www.amazon.com/Hans-Georg-Moe...)
Animation: Ron Lei
Production, Subtitles (Chinese): Fai
Production, Subtitles (Spanish): Manuel Rivera Espinoza
Narration (English): Simon Barber (izwi.com)
Narration, Subtitles Proofread (Spanish): Andrea Martinez ( / @inxochitlincuicatl9784 )
Subtitles (Hebrew): Inbal Shamir
Subtitles (German): Hans-Georg Moeller
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The money you donate will go to the production team, consisting mostly of university students. Our script writer Prof. Hans-Georg Moeller chooses not to receive any money.
Extremely beautiful video! I admire how this channel depicts a more accurate translation of eastern ideas to western audiences without any sort of an idyllic orientalist bend
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Holy moly, this video is only 12 minutes long! The density of it felt to me like I watched a full 4 season series on comparative philosophy. I really loved it! And I found it particularly funny that one could pronounce Nietzsche in a way that makes him sound akin to Chuangzi or Laozi. Great video!
Listening to this as I’m passing out to go to bed! Sweet dreams everybody!
Yes, yes and yes! Please, make Zhuangzi relevant today. Thank You "Philosophy in Motion"! I wait for more.
I'm happy that I found this channel. I should say that this was the most original explanation that I've ever heard regarding that passage. Truly educational content with pleasing aesthetics. What more one could ask for?
Such a well constructed video, I was so surprised that this video had under a million views,,, you rly deserve it thank you
(Remember to turn on subtitles!) What do you think?
I love the varied perspectives given. Thank you.
Großartig, dass dieser zentrale Text von Zhuangzi auf verständliche Weise visualisiert und so klug kommentiert wird! Damit öffnet sich endlich auch didaktisch eine Tür für den Einsatz dieses Textes im Philosophieunterricht der Oberstufe. Ich wünsche diesem professionell gemachten Video viele begeisterte Zuschauer und Zuhörer. - Mi-Chi
I am now three videos in and loving each one more and more. Thanks for making these :D
Your summaries and explanations are the best ones I managed to find
This was an unexpectedly well done video! Thank you very much for this! :) Looking forward to more content like this! Many greetings from Austria.
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Very excellent! I am honestly and disappointedly surprised at how few views this video has. I will be recommending it to everyone I can.
Thank you very much for this!
Excellent work in my opinion! Very nice and subtle use of sound and sound effects. I subscribed like a pro ,) Btw. maybe this is where Alan Watts got his idea about society embracing death instead of making it a taboo, which is truly what our society needs. We can dream about it eh?
Love & Chi to You. I look forward to more videos like this!
The Butterfly dream has always been the most calming to reread.
I love this video. It’s amazing how much insight you can gleam from such a short story.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice! Knowing next to nothing about Daoism, these well-made videos are very welcome. Looking forward to dipping my toes a bit.
Glad you like them!
What a smile on my face that crept up on me watching this video
Nice
This is so good! Special thanks to you👍
In dreams, we don't actually confirm who we are or sometimes we see ourselves watching what we are doing. This video is interesting.
Great work!! Please keep creating
Hi, from reddit. Very enjoyable, hope to see more
Glad you like this, we will definitely make more videos like this!
Insightful, thank you!
Your Videos bring me Joy and are so enlightening!
A channel that animates stories from the Zhuangzhi? Already subscribed.
Brilliant video!
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Thank you whoever the owner of this massful and charismatic voice. Right, so would people concur that when your status haven't changed in a long time, for a big portion of that time you'd say that you're not dreaming every night?
Your voice is pleasing to my ears
Beautiful
Great explanation.
Beautifully done
Thank you so much 😀
Amazing work!
Thanks a lot!
the chapter entitled: " A little talk about evening things out "
Chuang Tzu said: " When we sleep our spirits roam. When we wake we open to the world again. Day after day, all we touch entangles us, and the mind struggles in that net: vast and calm, deep and subtle....."
this is from David Hinton' s translation dated 1997 published by Counterpoint.
Hehe awesome, like springs and falls transforming into summer and winter.
Writing you right from Lecture with Prof. Moeller in China, Danyang 2023. Link provided in Presentation “Zhuangzi 1pt”
nice!
I'd be curious to know how this compares to the Kashmiri Shaivist Advaita Vedanta- Obviously the end goal here is not the liberation from life, but instead living at peace with the ephemeral nature of being; but, if life is this ultimately formless ephemerality, which materializes briefly through the performance of a body into an "identity"- that sounds like a very similar perspective to Advaita Vedanta. It's just that, instead of the phenomenal being illusory and deceptive, it's the encounter of life with itself in its many forms which projects these phenomena
Can you make a video on king janaka dream , ashtavakra and king janaka.
11:56 AMONG US REFERENCE???
Good catch!
Can you please provide a text version?
Fantastic.
Thanks! Glad you like this.
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I like that you don't speak with that ASMR/serene guru voice.
I came from persona 1
If we want to see Daoism as a philosophy, we must examine the examples it gives literally. The extrapolation of dream mechanism to propose an afterlife can not be supported with current knowledge about brain. We are material finite beings, as so are our brains which hold our souls.
Metaphysical aspect of soul comes from it's computational, or broadly - informatic structure. It is in that sense immortal and infinite, as any other computer program is immortal, and can run infinitely.
The problem is complexity of the hardware which runs individual soul, the complexity (and individuality) of principles of computation for each particular soul, are at current state of knowledge impossible to reproduce, or copy, and therefore every soul, which is a computation performed on a material neurocalculator, perishes together with it's hardware.
This means we can only take Daoism as either poetry (a historical perspective on specific rhetorical devices, imagination, etc.) or religion (believing it, suspending the materialist critique).
The whole concept of transformation is a religious concept, so we can not polarize it against any other religious concepts, such as "eternal soul".
The materialist equivalent of transformation is evolution, which follows a non-repetitive chain of things which can only categorically be seen as similar, but in reality are always UNIQUE in space and time.
Even to the level of subatomic particles, when properly accounting for time and space, we can not talk about any form of repetition in absolute sense. It is only categorical (statistical, taxonomical) repetition of our imperfect perception.
Repetition itself is already a metaphysical movement. It does not occur in nature.
do you think zhuangzi would agree with you?
@@Purwapada No, I don't think about zhuangzi at all. In fact I'm certain he does not exist. He can't agree or disagree with anything. And even if he existed it is completely pointless to care about what other people think. You should care about what they do.
@@chodnejabko3553 'whoosh' is all I will say to that
Great video - using it for class! Although, it's possible to learn to pronounce Chinese names properly!
Glad it was helpful!
funny. might be it's about reality vs dream.
And how do you know that "butterfly in the dream doesn't remember Zhu."? ;)
You are not the butterfly to know it remembers or not. Therefore it was just an assumption.
Dude, it's a story.
@@Jorge-xf9gs Yes. My comment is also a different interpretation of this story with a little sense of humor. ;)
The text states that "The butterfly did not know about Zhou.".
i need foot rubbies
All I know is I am
Jesus loves you all, take care of yourself
You follow allegorical non-historical texts to the letter huh?
Galatians 4:24
You’re welcome…