Li Changgeng Reports the Demons' Vicious Nature

Li Changgeng Reports the Demons' Vicious Nature The Novice Displays His Powers of Transformation Emotions and desires are in origin all the same; Both emotions and desires are completely natural. Many a gentleman refines himself in the Buddhist faith; When desire and emotions are forgotten, dhyana comes. Don't be impatient; be firm of heart; Be free of dust like the moon in the sky. Make no mistake in your labors and your progress; When your efforts are completed you will be an enlightened immortal. The story tells how Sanzang and his disciples, having broken through the net of desires and escaped from the prison-house of the emotions, let the horse travel West. Before they had been going for very long the summer was over and the new coolness of early autumn was refreshing their bodies. What they saw was: Driving rains sweeping away the last of the heat, Alarming the leaf of the parasol tree. At evening glow-worms flew by the sedge path While crickets sang beneath the moon. The golden mallows opened in the dew; Red knotweed covered the sandbanks. Rushes and willows......