Teachings
Teachings
`Whereever you go', said the Patriarch, `I'm Convinced you'll come to no good. So remember, when you get into trouble, I absolutely forbid you to say that you are my disciple. If you give a hint of any such thing I shall flay you alive, break all your bones, and banish your soul to the place of Ninefold Darkness, where it will remain for ten thousand aeons.'`I certainly won't venture to say a word about you,' promised Monkey. `I'Il say I found it all out for myself. '
-- from A Journey to the West, by Cheng-En Wu, tr. by Arthur Waley.