Long ago Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly. He was very joyful as a butterfly, well pleased with his lot, his aims fulfilled. He knew nothing of Chou the man. But shortly he awoke and found himself again to be Chuang Chou. And he could not tell whether as Chou he had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether as a butterfly he had dreamed he was Chou (
reading from a "400 year old scroll taken from the seventh original)
Of shame there is a great variety. But of the "Butterfly Scroll" of Chuang Tzu only one.
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