1. What use is heaven and earth? They cannot be used as mats or blankets. What use is wind and moon? They cannot be used for food or drink. What use is dust? All things are within them. What use is change? The Dao itself is formed. What use is facing the wall? One cannot see the surging tide. What use is a blow to the head? One only gets a big bump. What use is my birth? I cannot laugh. What use is my death? It does not diminish my arrogance. Where did I come from? Born into this world together, singing and laughing, traversing the Great Dao. Thousands of miles, I cannot find it. Better to meet me and smile. Straw sandals and bamboo hat, I have walked for a thousand years, and roamed the vast sky for a single day. Those who walk singing, forgetting both self and things. Hey! Hey! Hey! Free and unrestrained…
2. You are wrong. I have not forgotten everything; I have nothing.
3. Perhaps there was once such a me, who lived such a life. His figure is imprinted in this era. I see his legend.
4. God won't save anyone; only you can save yourself. If you die, nothing can be changed, but as long as you live, you can change everything.
4. I can't change the beginning, so why not forget the ending?
5. God isn't greedy, so why can't He tolerate the slightest disrespect? God isn't evil, so why does He hold the fate of millions of lives in His hands?
6. Everything will vanish; only memories remain. Are memories real or illusory? They are intangible and invisible, yet they are so heavily etched in our hearts.
7. I have a dream: when I take flight, the sky will part to make way; when I enter the sea, the waters will divide; all the gods and immortals will call me brother; carefree and without worry, nothing in the world can restrain me, no one can control me, no place I cannot reach, no thing I cannot do, and nothing I cannot defeat.
8. Those who remember you are gone, and so am I. No one loves you anymore, and no one hates you anymore. Everything is nothingness, and I am nothingness myself, drifting in the universe without a reflection. Light passes through me, and no one sees me.
9. You think you have many paths to choose from, but there are many invisible walls around you. In reality, you only have one path to walk.
10. I am like an actor, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing. Over time, I no longer know if this joy and sorrow are my own or just a performance. Many people are watching me, they are applauding, but I am lonely. I live in my own fantasy, imagining myself in a simple yet complex world, where there are only gods and demons, no people, no mundane human affairs, but everything you can't imagine. But actually living there, I am lonely, because I am alone.
11. I don't know why I should grieve for loss, why I should worry about the fleeting nature of time. I want to find that power, to let all life transcend boundaries, to let all flowers bloom simultaneously on the earth. To let those who want to fly fly freely, to let everyone be with those they love forever.
12. Bearing a thousand sins, I forge an indomitable spirit.
13. I want this sky to no longer obscure my vision, this earth to no longer bury my heart, all living beings to understand my will, and all Buddhas to vanish like smoke!
14. Because I want to live, I cannot conceal the desires in my heart, just as I love your beauty in my heart, how can I pretend to be detached from worldly desires?
15. Death is seeing nothing, hearing nothing, feeling nothing, and thinking nothing, just like before you were born.
16. At that instant, the dark sky was suddenly cleaved open by a huge bolt of lightning. Sun Wukong leaped up, pointing his golden cudgel straight at the heavens. "Come on!" His figure, illuminated by the lightning at that moment, remains frozen in legend even after thousands of years.
17. If the sky oppresses me, I will cleave it open; if the earth binds me, I will shatter it. We are born free, who dares to be high above us?
18. When heroes grow up in the iron cradle, their brave hearts, as before, will visit the omnipotent gods. But before that, I often feel that it is better to sleep peacefully than to trek alone.
19. I finally understand that the golden cudgel in my hand cannot reach the heavens above or the seas below; there is no Great Sage Equal to Heaven, only a little monkey.
20. Nothing in life is truly permanent, but some people don't believe it, so they keep searching, searching their whole lives.
21. For me, every place is home. But some people place their home somewhere in the world, which is why they can't find it, why they die on the road.
22. When five hundred years is just a deception, why do the characters in this void of time suffer, why do they rejoice?
23. Do not die, nor live alone.
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