
Long, long ago, on the top of a mountain, there lay all by itself a querr-shaped stone egg. No one knew what bird had laid it, nor how it had got there. No one ever saw it, for there was nobody there to see. the egg lay on some green grass, until one day it split with a crack, and out came a monkey whose body was of shinig polished stone.
Before long this wonderful stone monkey was surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, chattering to one another as hard as they could. By and by one of them came forward and asked the stone monkey to be their king. This post he accepted at once, having indeed already thrown out hints that he thought himself quite fit to rule over them.
Soon after this, the stone monkey determined to travel in search of wisdom, and to see the world, He went down the mountain until he came to the seashore, where he made himself a raft, and sailed away. Reaching the other side of the freat ocean, he found his way to abode of a famous magician, whom he persuaded to teach all kinds of magic.
He learned to make himself invisible, to fly up into the sky, and to jump many miles at a single jump. At last he began to think himself better and stronger than anybody else, and determined to make himself Lord af the Sky.
"Have you heard of the new king of the monkeys?" said the Dragon prince to the Lord Buddha one day, as they were sitting together in the palace of the sky.
"No," answered the Lord Buddha. "What is there to hear about him?"
"He was learnt all kind sof magic and has been doing a lot af mischief," replied the Dragon prince. "He now means to turn the Lord of the Sky out of his palace, and be Lord of the Sky himself. I promised to ask you to help us against this impudent stone monkey. If you will be good enough to do so, i feel sure we should conquer him."
The Lord Buddha stepped forward, and in a quiet voice said to him, "what do you want?"
"I want," answered the stone monkey, "to be Lord of the Sky. I could manage things much better than they are managed now. See how i can jump!"
The stone monkey jumped. In a momnt a he was out of sight. In another moment he was back again.
"Can you do that, Lord Buddha ?" he asked. The Lord Buddha onlu smiled and said. "I will make a bargain with you. Tou shal come outside the palace with me and stand upon my hand. Then, if you can jump out pf my hand, you shall be Lord of the Sky. But if you can't jump out of my hand, you shall be sent down to earth once and for all."
The stone monkey laughed loudly. "Jump out of your hand, Lord Buddha ! I can easily do that."
So they went outside the palace. The Lord Buddha put down his hand, and the stone monkeyt stepped on to it. He then gave one great jump. on and on he went in his jump, until he came to the end of the earth. There he stopped.
While he was chuckling to himself that he would red pillars standing on the very edge of the earth with nothing but empty space beyond.
"Now," he said to himself, "I will leave a mark to show how far i have jumped." So he scratched a mark on one of the pillars, meaning to bring the Lord Buddha there to see it for himself. then he took another big jump, and in the twinkling of an eye he was back again in the Lord Buddha's hand.
"When are you going to begin to jump ?" the Lord Buddha asked, as the monkey stepped down.
"When !" cried the monkey proudly. "I have al ready jumped to the very edge of the earth. If you want to proof, you have only to get on my back, and i'll take you there to see. There are five red pillars there, and I've left am mark on one of them."
"Look here, monkey," said the Lord Buddha, holding out his hand, "look at this."
The stone monkey looked. On the of the fingers of the Lord Buddha's hand was the very mark which he himself had made on the red pillar.
"You see," said the Lord Buddha, "the whole world lies in my hand. You could never jumped out of it. When you jumped and thought you were out of sight, my hand was under you all the time. No one, not even a stone monkey, can ever get beyond my reach. Now, go down to earth, and learn to keep in your proper place."
* kalo baca kisah ini jadi teringat pada seekor kera "
Sun go kong" ato "
Kera sakti," yang selalu d abadikan kisahnya d daratan Cina,, tapi kalo d jaman sekarang mencari orang sakti yang sanggup nyelesain segala permasalahan dunia ada gak ya?pengennya seh
superman muncul lagi ... hehe