"I send you to Nirvana!"
Such a short sentence, six words long, how overbearing, how despotic! Tathagata, Burning Lamp, Maitreya—all among the top Primordial Golden Immortals—yet Wukong sought to send all three to Nirvana with his own power. To send the past, present, and future Buddhas of Spiritual Mountain to Nirvana? To outsiders, this surely seemed like a joke.
Tathagata rebuked, "How dare you, Victorious Fighting Buddha, commit such insolence!"
Wukong retorted, "Insolence? Buddha preached that all beings are equal. Although there are natural predators and prey, high and low statuses in the world, are not all things equal in Buddha's eyes? Where is this insolence you speak of? Tathagata, you hypocritical Buddha, let me help you break through your delusions, and in your next life, may you achieve true Buddhahood!"
