Blog #9

      In this blog, I will be retelling the myth that I have been telling you all about. I will tell this myth from my point of view though, so it might be a little bit different from what you have heard before. I hope that you enjoy the retelling of this myth. Here goes nothing.


      I have been captured by the Jade Emperors soldiers, and they have been ordered to execute me. They gave it their all, and tried every trick that they had to put me into my final rest, but because I had taken the Jade Emperor's pill, and drank some of his liquor, I was immortal. Because of this, they went to the Jade Emperor, and told him that I was unable to be killed. As a last ditch effort they came back and threw me in the Eight Trigrams Fire, which is pretty much a furnace, for 49 days.

      After those 49 days the soldiers came back to bring my body out of the fire, but right when they opened up the furnace, but to their surprise I jumped out at the first second that it was opened and started to fight everybody that I saw. This fight took me all through heaven, and was eventually ended when the gods cornered me. The Buddha then came up to me and gave me a challenge. He said that if I could jump off of his right hand, then he would give heaven to me. Seeming a simple task, I jumped as far as I could, wrote "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" on the pillars there, then urinated on the ground. After jumping back and telling the Buddha to give heaven to me, he then looked down at his middle finger, and I saw where I had jumped to, and my urine was also on his hand. This made me feel much more humble, and the Buddha locked me under the Five Finger Mountain for as long as it took for me to repent for all of my sins.

       After I had been imprisoned for all of my wrongdoings, all of the gods were ecstatic. Because of this, they threw a giant party and all gods were invited. This party was called "The Banquet to Celebrate Peace in Heaven." The Buddha was celebrated at this party for finally subduing me. He got many gifts from all of the gods. Buddha was thanked very much for he had saved the heavens and saved all the gods.