Today, I got a question that is a teleporter took someone to Mars,the machine copied his spirit, memories, then it destroyed him body and released him to Mars. The creature in Mars is the person or not? this question is more like the question: Who are you? Who are you? a philosophic question. According to Buddhism’s idea, when people died, he or she just from this place goes to another place. So for this question, if you focus on the body is you, the creature in Mars is not you because the body had been destroyed; if you focus on the spirit, the creature is you because the spirit and the memories are the same. So what do you think?

Let me tell you a story, the Chinese ancient philosopher, Zhuangzi, he fell of a dream, in the dream he was a butterfly; when he woke up he was a person, he confused he was a butterfly or a person? Zhuangzi’s another statement was: one day, he was watching the fish. One person passed him and asked, ‘what are you doing?’. he said ‘I am reseaching the fish’s happiness ‘. The guy said, ‘ you are not the fish, why do you know the fish’s happiness ‘. Zhuangzi said ‘you are not me, Why do you know I don’t know the fish’s happiness ‘. these statements are not just making us fun, they always drive us to think.

Thinking is a skill that human being are different between others creatures in the planet. thinking give us a chance to know ourselves, to kown universe, to know the society, to know all the things we want to know. Back to the question who are you? Are you a father, a morther or a son, a daughter? Are you a supervisor or a junior? Are you a professional or individual? Are you a successful person or not? Form different view, theses questions have different answers. But all these are not important, the important thing is you, yourself. We don’t know Zhuangzi or ourselves are the butterfly or the person, We don’t know whether or not Zhuangzi knew the fish’s happiness, but we must know ourselves, we need to know ourselves. So everyday when you get up, face the mirror ask this question, ‘who am I?’ to think about that, to find the answer, then you know your goals, you kow what you want to do, you won’t miss yourself.