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The World Inside a Pillow
''The World Inside a Pillow'' (Chinese Simplified 枕中记) is a traditional Chinese story by Shen Jiji(1) of the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618–907). The story involves a Daoist monk and is interpreted through the Daoist and Buddhist belief of life as an illusion and the moral of not striving too much in one's life.
==Plot==
The story begins with a Daoist monk called Lü travelling when he meets a man named Lu. This man is unhappy with his life and laments that he was a great man born at the wrong time. The monk responds asking him if his life is not happy then whose life could possibly be? Lu monologues that a good and happy life ought to have a certain level of prestige, wealth, and glory, and immediately after he finishes speaking he falls into a deep slumber. The monk offers Lu a blue porcelain pillow on which to sleep. The pillow had an opening on each end.
While the man slept he entered the pillow. Inside the pillow the man was married to a wealthy family and a beautiful wife and became quite rich. He was appointed to be chancellor to the emperor during a time of war, as well. But soon afterwards his colleagues became jealous and started spreading rumors that Lu was a traitor, the rumors caused an edict that he should be imprisoned. Upon his capture he told his wife that he had been afflicted to have wanted such a large salary that he should deserve such a fate. He grew old inside the pillow and upon his dying breath wrote a memorandum about his life and divine fate explaining that his strife was in vain. When he died an old man inside the pillow he then awoke in an inn with the Daoist monk. He proclaims that it may have been a dream and the monk responds that "the happinesses of human life are all like that."
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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