How many of you are there in this world?
When you first hear this question, you might find it amusing because you believe there is only one of you in the world, and you are unique.
But if you lose your memory and find yourself in a different environment, transforming from a beggar to a prince, would you, as the prince, find it absurd if others claimed you were a beggar?
So, are you the beggar or the prince?
If you insist you are the prince, what if you recover your memory? Would you still believe that?
What Shen Yue is referring to is precisely the contradiction caused by people's attachment to the self, which requires deep understanding to arrive at the correct answer — debating whether you are the beggar or the prince is utterly meaningless because it results from a dualistic judgment made due to "ego attachment." "Ego attachment" is inherently illusory; how can you arrive at the correct answer based on a false premise?
