“忘”生“梦”死——从“庄周梦蝶”看庄子的生死观

“庄周梦蝶”提供了一种沟通生死的方法——“梦”。对“死”的未知，带来对死亡的极度恐惧与对生命的极度热爱以及二者之间的深重矛盾；通过“忘”生进入“死”的状态——“梦”死，则沟通了生死，由此解除了对死亡的未知以及对死亡的恐惧；生死相互为梦，不辨梦里梦外，不知是梦是醒，最后等同了生死，达到了“齐物”的最高境界。

Forgetting life and dreaming of being dead:Zhuang Zi's view of life and death seen from Zhuang Zhou's Dreaming of Becoming a Butterfly

Dream is offered by Zhuang Zhou's Dreaming of Becoming a Butterfly as a route to communicating life and death. Extreme dread of death,extreme love of life,and the deep contradiction between the two are all caused by the ignorance of death. By dreaming of being dead,namely,forgetting life and entering the state of death,life and death can be communicated and so both the ignorance and dread of death are relieved. Life is the dream of death and death is the dream of life,not knowing either in or out of dream,c...