L'Empereur de Jade
le centre patient du ciel
aetherL'Empereur de Jade règne sur le ciel non par la force mais par une patience parfaite, ayant cultivé la vertu à travers un million d'âges ; rêver de lui, c'est ressentir l'autorité lente des choses qui ne se hâtent pas, et être invité à vous gouverner de la même manière.
His court keeps records of every dream dreamed under heaven, clerks upon clerks of them; somewhere in those archives, yours is filed.
Before the throne he spent a thousand ages in meditation, and when the demons finally came, his calm outshone their fire; the long stillness was the weapon.
Once a year he receives the Kitchen God's report on every household, and the old people sweeten the report with candy; even heaven can be gently bribed.
When the monkey wrecked his halls he did not rage — he summoned the Buddha and watched; true power delegates its anger.