Black Myth: The Stone Monkey Searches for His Mother and Storms Mount Ling

The old man took me back to the mountain and asked, “After causing such a stir in the Western Heaven, did you gain anything?”

I replied, “I did. One day, I will storm Mount Ling, overthrow the temples, shatter the Buddha statues, and slaughter every monk. I will leave not a trace of Buddhism in the Three Realms! To hell with the bliss of rebirth. I will make this world open its doors to all living beings, and let every creature live for itself!”

The old man fell silent for a long time, then stroked my head and sighed. “You foolish child, you are attached to appearances. There is no Buddha in this world, only the truth of good intentions. The Buddhist path itself is not wrong. The ones who are wrong are those who have strayed from their true nature.”