Indestructible Dharma; Buddha Attains Perfect Enlightenment

The story tells how Tang Sanzang kept his masculine essence intact and escaped from the terrible snare of mist and flowers. As he headed Westwards with Brother Monkey he did not notice that it was already summer: warm breezes were beginning to blow, and the early summer rain was falling. It was a beautiful sight: Dark is the shade under tender green; In the gentle breeze the swallows lead their young. New lotus leaves are opening on the ponds; Elegant bamboo is gradually reviving. The fragrant plants join their blue to the sky; Mountain flowers carpet all the ground. Beside the stream the rushes are like swords; The fiery pomegranate blossom makes the picture even more magnificent. As the master and his three disciples traveled along enduring the heat they suddenly noticed two rows of tall willows, from under the shade of which an old woman emerged, leaning on a small boy. "Don't go any further, monk," she called out. "Stop your horse and go back East as soon as you can. The road West leads nowhere." This gave Sanzang so bad a fright that he sprang off the horse,......