Exposed to the wind, it was transformed into a stone monkey endowed with fully developed features and limbs. One day, it split open, giving birth to a stone egg about the size of a playing ball. Since the creation of the world, had been nourished for a long period by the seeds of Heaven and Earth and by the essences of the sun and the moon, until, quickened by divine inspiration, it became pregnant with a divine embryo.Mind and nature nurtured, the Great Dao is born. The divine root conceives, its source revealed. But when you perceive, by the resoluteness of your will, the Buddha-nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts goes back to its very source in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at the Spirit Mountain. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983) You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow old, and after that, till you become youthful again and even after going through such a cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the place you want to go to. Quotations The Journey to the West, trans.
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