Chuang Tzu’s Teachings and Ideologies

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Chuang Tzu
Introduction
According to Yeh et al. (122), Chuang Tzu’s teachings concentrate on the genuineness, longevity, wellness, immorality, vitality, objectivity, purification, spontaneity, transformation, and Omni-potentiality. The author is somehow complicated in his writings during the course marked by humanist and naturalist contemplation on normativity shaped by the metaphor of a Dao. The author uses a prose style in his works as a distinctive literary treasure. He uses a central feature, a parable explained in a discussion between imagery and real interlocutors. He argues that life is an ongoing transformation of the Dao, which is neither good nor evil and no better or worse. The essay below is on a discussion about Chuang Tzu’s teachings and his ideologies.
Chuang Tzu’s Teachings and His Ideologies
Chuang Tzu’s story and the butterfly (Leach 77) are philosophical literature’s best-known anecdotes. About his writings, Chuang Tzu’s dream of him being a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around, did not comprehend his natural state at the moment, either a butterfly or human being. He confirms it as the transformation of things which are changes in consciousness between reality and illusions. Bonar (75) mentions that the constant flux between dreams and awakening facilitates the personal change from being aware of the distinction of things to being conscious of the definite difference between and among the things. The interpretations of the dream draw a strange and radical story. Much discussion concentrates on the nature of the atmosphere created by Chuang Tzu for the dream. However, Zhuangzi (13) questions whether it is inherently optimistic or pessimistic. The dream has two interpretations based on traditions; one image of a soaring and bright future while the other gloomy and melancholy, which confirms the reading life is but a dream. Despite the contrasting ideas on the dreams, they both interpret them from the perspective of the world realm. However, later, the optimism part of the dream dominates, emphasizing the author’s dream. Poets and Chinese scholars refer to the dream as just an allusion fixed for a delightful experience. The dream is linked to expressions of self-content and descriptions of a happy existence.
The story is one of the best-known anecdotes in the philosophical literature. Some people consider it as annoying philosophy which irritates rather than illuminates. The story is more of an amusing incident than a life of a sage. It explains human beings’ philosophical points on what is viewed as real. According to Yeh et al. (122), so long as people dream, they perceive that the dreams will come in reality. It is true that no particular manifestation by which individuals may differentiate wakefulness from sleep. The dream about the butterfly is from the philosophical point of view, not the butterfly as perceived. The philosopher questions if he may be a man who dreamt of being a butterfly or the butterfly is dreaming that he was a man. However, if the question asked by the philosopher is sincere, then there is an expectation that the same dream would apply to a butterfly. The story would be parallel with the philos...