MONKEY GROWS A HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET TALL. Clasping his treasure Monkey used some of his heaven and earth magic, bowed, and shouted, “Grow.” He became a hundred thousand feet tall; his head was as big as a mountain, his waist like a range of hills, his eyes flashed like lightning, his mouth seemed to be a bowl of blood, and his teeth were as swords and halberds; the cudgel in his hands reached up to the Thirty-third Heaven and down to the Eighteenth Hell. – Journey to the west Chapter 3 A dragon, as spiritual luminosity, can be large or small, can rise, or descend, can disappear or appear, can penetrate rocks and mountains, can leap in the clouds and travel with the rain. How can it do all this? It is done by the activity of the spirit. The reason human beings can be humans is because of the spirit. As long as the spirit is there, they live. When the spirit leaves, they die. One who can use the spirit skillfully changes in accordance with the time, and therefore can share the qualities of heaven and earth, share the light of the sun and the moon, share the order of the four seasons, command nature in the primordial state, and serve in the temporal. -- Liu Yiming, Awakening the Tao The awakened human spirit is like the universe. The whole universe in all ten quarters is what our radiantly luminous True Self is. -- Dogen (13thc. Japanese Zen monk) Reality is so subtle that the ancient immortals called it a tiny pearl. Yet though they called it a tiny pearl, in reality it has no such shape.; they call it thus because there is a point of conscious energy hidden in the center, and because that point of awareness contains the whole cosmos, space, and the universe. -- Liu Yiming
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