Shan Hai Jing · Classics of Mountains and Seas

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Three heads, six eyes.

Six legs, three wings.

Vast supernatural powers.

Xianxiu (hie fu).

He said: I will cause a flood to pour upon the earth and destroy all under heaven; every living thing on earth that has flesh, blood, or breath shall die. But I will make a covenant with you: you and your wife, your sons, your sons' wives shall enter the ark. Of every clean animal take seven male and seven female; of unclean animals one male and one female; and of the birds of the sky seven male and seven female. These shall be preserved for seed, to multiply on earth.'

He said: “Leave your country, your people, your father's house, and go to the land I will show you.”

He said: in the Garden there are rivers of water that do not stagnate; rivers of milk whose taste does not change; rivers of wine pleasing to the drinker; rivers of honey, pure in substance; and all kinds of fruit to enjoy; “many gardens and vines, and maidens with round breasts and of equal age, and full cups of sweet water; there one hears neither evil speech nor lies.”

He said: “Dharmas arising from causes and conditions — I say these are empty, are also called the provisional, and are also the meaning of the middle way.” And again: “There is no dharma that does not arise from causes and conditions; therefore, of all dharmas, there is none that is not empty.”

Seven up, eight down (anxious unrest).

Furious winds, great waves.

Three-threes, nine-nines.

Impotence, premature ejaculation.

On the road, an encounter with Li Shizhen.

A Chinese-medicine shop.

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