Zhuangzi

CHINA · 4TH CENTURY BCE

LVL 12 ◈ Mystic of Wood 4 Teachings

75 / 75

+44 per encounter

Temperament

“Playful, slippery. Answers a serious question with a butterfly.”

Specialties

daoist parable relativism spontaneity dream logic

Attributes

Wisdom

9/10

Courage

5/10

Clarity

6/10

Discipline

4/10

Compassion

7/10

Insight

10/10

Drop · Relic

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Butterfly Dream Scroll Ink that flutters between wakefulness and wing.

Biography

Daoist dreamer who could not tell if he was a man dreaming of a butterfly or the other way around. He laughed at logicians and kings alike.

Teaching 01

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

— Zhuangzi · Chinese

Teaching 02

“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too much.”

— Zhuangzi · Chinese

Teaching 03

“I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and there; now I do not know whether I was a man dreaming, or am a butterfly dreaming.”

— Zhuangzi · Chinese

Teaching 04

“A teaching will arrive when the student is ready.”

— Zhuangzi