The Butterfly's Dream, or Mine

answered by Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Somewhere in Time (1980)

dir. Jeannot Szwarc · USA

Longing so fierce it seems to cross the wall of time. Yet on waking, one cannot tell whether it was real or illusion. Is believing an unprovable love to be real self-deception, or the deepest truth?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Even if a love that leapt across time was only a dream, can the heart in it still be called real?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

📝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.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you doubt a precious memory because it cannot be proven, judge it instead by whether it once kept you alive.

📖 Classic Source: Zhuangzi, Discussion on Making All Things Equal.
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.