On a slightly different tack, I’ve been playing around with the idea that animals are a projection of the universal Self – humans included – similar to the Life Of Pi.
IN ZHUANGZI 莊子, an ancient Chinese text written by Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi during the late Warring States period (476–221 BCE), a story tells that Zhuang Zhou once dreamed he was a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around, happy, and doing as he pleased. As a butterfly, he did not know he was Zhuang Zhou. All of a sudden, he awoke and found he was Zhuang Zhou, solid and unmistakably human. But then he did not know whether he was Zhuang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.
It is totally mind blowing !
On a slightly different tack, I’ve been playing around with the idea that animals are a projection of the universal Self – humans included – similar to the Life Of Pi.