Sanzang's Way Is Blocked at the Fiery Mountains

Sanzang's Way Is Blocked at the Fiery Mountains Monkey First Tries to Borrow the Plantain Fan The many species are at root the same; All flows into the boundless sea. Every thought and worry is in vain; All types and forms together blend. When the achievement is complete Great will be the full and shining dharma. Do not allow your differences to divide: Keep everything together. Gather all into the elixir furnace, Refine it till it is red as darkest gold. Then in its brilliance and beauty On dragons it may ride at will. The story tells how Sanzang took back Brother Monkey as the Bodhisattva had instructed him and headed towards the Western Heaven, united in heart with Pig and Friar Sand. They were no longer in two minds, and the ape and the horse were firmly under control. Time shot by like an arrow; days and nights alternated with the speed of a shuttle. After the scorching heat of summer they were now in the frosts of late autumn. What they saw was: The sparse clouds blown away by the wild West wind, Cranes calling in the distant hills amid the frosty woods. This......