I'm no expert on Chinese culture. But the message is at least as old as "Journey to the West" (aka: 'that monkey king story'). Where Tang Sanzang travels westwa

I'm no expert on Chinese culture. But the message is at least as old as "Journey to the West" (aka: 'that monkey king story'). Where Tang Sanzang travels westward in search of paradise. At the end of the trip, he fails to find paradise, and Buddha IIRC tells him to turn around and look back upon his journey. Tang Sanzang created paradise in his time, by solving all the issues of the people along the way. It was the journey that made paradise, not the end. If he just teleported to the West, there would have been no paradise. ------ Probably a Buddhism thing that keeps coming up over and over again over the centuries. But I liked that one.