Post by donq on Nov 19, 2024 6:17:46 GMT
Awaking: wake up from what?
Someone asked, "Awaking wake up from what? Seems like I know it but I don't." I was not in the position to say the whole thing. But here it is:
More than two thousand years ago, Zhuangzi asked something like this:
Once he dreamt he was a butterfly, flying here and there. Being happy as a butterfly, not knowing that he was Zhuangzi.
Soon he awakened, and wondered whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man?
Between a man and a butterfly, there is a distinction. That transition is called "awaking".
[In Buddhism, its core is about awaking from "ignorance" or Avidyā. But I won't bother you about it here.]
Recently, I've just learned the meaning of "breaking the fourth wall". I mean, I saw it in some movies before that a character talked back directly to the audiences, which was funny. Or in the theater, an actor might break the fourth wall physically by walking down from the stage, through the audience and out the door instead of exiting stage left or right.
Or when I was watching a movie and so moved with it (excite, scare, sad etc.) if only I can pull myself back to the reality, outside the movie, then, I will realize that it's just a movie.
That said, the army of the dead's opening song "Viva Las Vegas" always got me. When the zombies were eating that mother and daughter, I had to fetch my Kleenex. ;-)
Someone asked, "Awaking wake up from what? Seems like I know it but I don't." I was not in the position to say the whole thing. But here it is:
More than two thousand years ago, Zhuangzi asked something like this:
Once he dreamt he was a butterfly, flying here and there. Being happy as a butterfly, not knowing that he was Zhuangzi.
Soon he awakened, and wondered whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man?
Between a man and a butterfly, there is a distinction. That transition is called "awaking".
[In Buddhism, its core is about awaking from "ignorance" or Avidyā. But I won't bother you about it here.]
Recently, I've just learned the meaning of "breaking the fourth wall". I mean, I saw it in some movies before that a character talked back directly to the audiences, which was funny. Or in the theater, an actor might break the fourth wall physically by walking down from the stage, through the audience and out the door instead of exiting stage left or right.
Or when I was watching a movie and so moved with it (excite, scare, sad etc.) if only I can pull myself back to the reality, outside the movie, then, I will realize that it's just a movie.
That said, the army of the dead's opening song "Viva Las Vegas" always got me. When the zombies were eating that mother and daughter, I had to fetch my Kleenex. ;-)
