I Have a Friend Who Lives Somewhere Else

Sun Wukong was pinned beneath Five Elements Mountain by the Tathagata Buddha for five hundred years, waiting for a pilgrim to come fetch him. Instead, the first to arrive was Lin Daiyu, who fell from the sky: one was a demon monkey who refused to accept his fate, the other a sickly girl who refused to accept hers! She said, "You're crushed beneath a mountain, and I'm crushed beneath my fate. Neither of us has any right to laugh at the other." He said, "You teach me poetry, and I'll teach you how to fight the heavens. Neither of us has any reason to look down on the other." Later, she wiped the six-character mantra from his body and turned into a wisp of green smoke. The whole world forgot her. Only one monkey remembered. He became a Buddha, yet still called her name every day. When someone asked who he was calling, he said, "A friend."

"What kind of friend?"

"A friend is someone whose name you keep calling even when she doesn't answer, until she finally does."