"Have you ever heard of the saying, 'When there are three thousand weak waters, only one scoop is taken?'" Sun Wukong asked lightly as he looked at the Mortal Dust Peach.
"I know,"
Ao Yun nodded, acknowledging the reference comes from a minor story in the scriptures.
Beneath the Bodhi Tree, Buddha once asked a man, "In the eyes of the world, you are as wealthy as a nation, you rule over a territory, and you have a wise wife. Why then do you appear melancholy?"
The man replied, "It's precisely because of this, I don't know what to choose."
Buddha smiled and said, "Let me tell you a story.
One day, a traveler was about to die of thirst. Out of compassion, I created a lake before him, but he didn't drink a drop. Puzzled, I asked him why.
"Since I cannot drink the entire lake and my stomach is small, why drink at all?" he answered.
With a radiant face, Buddha concluded to the melancholic man, "Three thousand weak waters, but only a scoop to drink."
