Buddhism and Taoism about dreams

Both Buddhism and Taoism attach great importance to dreams, and dreams can play an important role in both Buddhist practice and Taoist practice. Buddhism pays attention to cause and effect, practice to cultivate the mind, dream for Buddhism is the embodiment of the mind, and has a great relationship with cause and effect. For Buddhism, the dream is a kind of phase, all phases are not born, all Dharma is not destroyed, and the Buddha's highest realm is 'all phases are false', can understand everything, do not fall into samsara, can be detached. For Taoists, everything in heaven and earth originates from nature, Tao Fa is natural, everything is a part of their own, and dreams are no exception. Dream is the illusion of consciousness, and the detachment pursued by Taoism is the unity of heaven and man.

The Diamond Sutra says, 'Everything that has Dharma, like a dream bubble, like dew and like electricity, should be viewed as such.' Dream is the performance of mind, just like a journey of life, a dream is a cycle, is a cause and effect. Many people in life, always feel that the dream is very real, this is actually a kind of obsession in the heart. The deeper the obsession, the more real the dream. Buddhism believes that the deeper a person's obsession in life, the greater the pain he will experience. This obsession will be reflected in the dream, the deeper the obsession, the more difficult it is to distinguish between the dream and reality. If a person wants to obtain great freedom, he must know how to let go and jump out of the life of having the Fa, like a dream.

The Buddha said, 'Knowing all Buddhas and my heart is like a dream; Know that all Buddhas are like images, and their hearts are like water; Knowing all the Buddha's colors, and with our own mind, knowing that all are like illusions.' Everything starts from the heart, the heart is born from the dream, for the practice of Buddhism, the dream is a game of the mind, all the mind, the dream is also created by the heart, so the most important thing is to cultivate the mind. Only by practicing the mind can we achieve great consciousness, and only when we wake up from a dream, can we find that the dream turned out to be empty.

Dream is a cause and effect, for Buddhism, everything in the world has cause and effect, cause and effect cycle, endless. Whatever the dream is, it represents cause and effect and may be the cause of your future, just as many people find that sometimes dreams have the effect of predicting the future. It may also be the result of the past, the past things have been forgotten, but the dream can remind you of this cause and effect.

Taoism emphasizes detachment from this world, and dream is a kind of Taoist practice. Lao Tzu said, 'Man laws the earth, the earth laws heaven, the heaven law, and the nature law.' The most famous dream should be Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly. This is a natural manifestation of Taoism. Everything in heaven and earth is a part of ourselves. Only by Taoism and nature can we achieve the realm of unity between heaven and man. For Taoists, dreams are a natural attempt to follow the Tao.

Buddhism thinks that dream is a kind of phase, and all phases are false, which is a great enlightenment. For Taoism, the dream is a combination of detachment and reality, and there is a very close connection between the two, dream and reality, you have me, I have you, and it is not false. When the Buddha said that life is like a dream, he said that everything is an illusion, and if it cannot be discovered, it will be empty in the end. Taoism says that life is like a dream, and dreams are like real life. If you can control your dreams, then you can control your life.

Buddhism believes that people are in pain in this life and practice in the next life, hoping to realize the transcendence of the mind in this life and the bliss in the next life, so the Buddha believes that dreams are part of people's many karma, and if you want to transcendence, you must explore. We must go from the mind of the ordinary man in the dream to the mind of the Buddha in the dream consciousness. Taoism cultivates this life, not the next life, only this life. Taoism is the natural way, the unity of heaven and man, hope that this life can be consummated, so there will be Zhuangzhou and butterfly mutual transformation.