friend,have you ever seen the end of the world?or,maybe i should say the end of the universe.last night,i dreamed of the the last moment of the world.i was shocked so much that i cannot tell whether it's just a dream or the reality.
being sitting in an armchair,with a book in the hand,i cast a glance over the distant grey skies.i can see nothing but the deserted CROSS STREET of the dezerted old city,which is my hometown.i grew up on the CROSS STREET shince i was young,but now there's not a soul or anything that meets my sight.the dead still enshrouds everything,everywhere.
there's intuition which comes up from the bottom of my heart:it's the time.the last moment is coming...all the things will be desdroyed,nothing left.the grey skies far away that i see is in fact nothing but just an illusion.the colosal destroying current had destroyed the real things at the speed that no one can imagine.the scenes that i see no longer exist.
it's coming,it's coming at me.
being easy,fearless,sorrowless,angerless,with the heart as clear as the water,i just wander over the book with the eyes.
the things that are destinged to take place are bond to take place,the things that are coming are bond to be coming.
everything that has a beginning always has an end...
just the last time i lift the eyes,it comes.it seems that the town,the street,all the things become nothing.it's the dark,absolutely dark.
swept by the emense current,i feel i am being destroyed,being twised,being tore to the countless bits,and then particles in no time.the whole world and me become nothing.everything has become nothingness,just like never existing before.
i have become countless particles,nothing remains.i've melted into the ocean of the primitive matter.no longer having the human figure,but there's still the spirit.i can be extremely imense while extremely tiny.i am just the ocean and the ocean is just me.the imaginable bliss that i never had before.
formless,shapeless,sizeless,timeless,it seems that i can be everywhere and have nothing i cannot do.
being not aware of how long it is keep being like this...it seems that something starts to come into shape.from the nothingness to the travelling particles orbitting around me,i feel there's a new body forming...
hot,extremely hot,just like soaking and swimming around in the ocean of the lava,every cell that is been made up of the new particles is burning like fire.
i have come back to life again just like the phonex rising from the burned ashes.
when the sense comes back to me,i found that i am floating along the current instead of staying in the place of nowhere.hard to open my eyes,but i can hear the sound of the waves around me.it seems to be a new world that i've never been before.
gradualy,i am pushed up onto a beach by the waves,which i can hardly see two figures in the distance.one of them seems to be a little boy,which runs towards me,shouting "daddy,there' seems to be a man on the beach..."they are running towards me...
suddenly i wake up from the dream,abruptly sitting up on the bed.i gasp strongly.there's sweat all over my body,which is burning like the fire,just like in the dream.by and by,i begin to realize that it's just a dream.i am still me,i am still in a mountain school in the southern part of china.the time is AM 4:30,september 4,2008.
i haven't had such a strange dream for a long time.but it's so real,not just like a dream.2000 years ago,zhuang zi once had a dream,in which he turned into a beautifull butterfly,flying freely over the flowers,not knowing he was actually a human being.
after the dream,he was very moved, saying that the dream was so real that he didn't know if it was he who turned into a butterfly or the butterfly turning into him.
who am i?
where am i from?
where am i about to go?
we are living in the best period,which is also the worst period.there's a Buddist saying:everything in the universe has four periods:formation,stasis,degenaration and elimination.
at this time,which both matter and souls decline and is perverted like this,if the end of the world really comes,what shall we do?
my dear friends,we are just the passengers to this world,which we have to leave either early or late.why not give me your hand and follow me,to the path of the brightness?