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Chuang Tzu
"When one is in a dream/One Does not know one is dreaming." --from "Dream Within a Dream"
"Chu and you are both dreaming,/I say you're dreaming, I'm dreaming too."--from "Dream Within a Dream"
"Once upon a time, Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly, a butterfly fluttering about, enjoying itself. It did not know that it was Chuang Tzu. Suddenly he awoke with a start and he was Chuang Tzu again. But he did not know whether he was Chuang Tzu who had dreamed that he was a butterfly, or whether he was a butterfly dreaming that he was Chuang Tzu. Between Chuang Tzu and the butterfly there must be some distinction. This is what is called the transformation of things." --from The Dream Of Life
Lao Tzu
"Empty your mind of all thought." --Tao Te Ching
"He who knows others is wise;/ He who knows himself is enlightened." --Tao Te Ching
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." --Tao Te Ching
Deeshan
"Hidden in the mystery of consciousness, the mind, incorporeal, flies alone far way. Those who set their mind in harmony become free from the bonds of death." --The Dhammapada
A Zen Koan
"Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, 'The flag moves.' The other said, 'The wind moves." They argued back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, said: 'Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves.' The two monks were struck with awe."
--from "The Little Zen Companion" by David Schiller, © 1994. This story also appears (along with a large collection of other koans) at Zen Stories To Tell Your Neighbors.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"And what if in a dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower; and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand. Oh, what then?" --from "Biographia Literaria" (1817)
Charles De Lint
"In terms of what Professor Dapple calls consensual reality--that the world is as it is because that's how we've all agreed it is---I seem to carry this magical bubble world around with me, inside and hidden from the world we all inhabit. A strange and wonderful world where the implausible becomes not only possible, but probable. It doesn't matter if, most of the time, I'm the only one that can see it, thought that's probably why I paint what I do; I'm trying to show the rest of the world this weird little corner of reality that I inhabit." --from the novel, "The Onion Girl" (2000), page 14.
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Bible
Here are a few biblical passages that relate in some way to the story of "The Matrix." To learn more about the Christian theme that runs through "The Matrix," be sure to visit my
Matrix Names, Number, and Religious Ties Page.
1 Cor. 2:9
I Cor. 13:12
Isaiah 2:3
Romans 3:1-2
Romans 6:14
Romans 13:11
Matt. 7:7
Matt. 7:13-14
Matt. 11:28-29
2 Cor. 4:4
Ezra 9:9
John 8:34
Ephesians 5:14
1 Peter 4:11
Resources and Other Good Stuff:
http://pages.prodigy.net/dereklin/chuang/dream.htm
http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Taoism/dream.html(which listed "Readings from World Scriptures by Prof. Andrew Wilson" as a source), "The Little Zen Companion" by David Schiller @ 1994, Charles De Lint's Website, and others.
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