This is a retelling of seeing and not seeing. Drawn from Journey to the West and the episode of “The Three Strikes of the White Bone Demon,” it is no longer about demon and human, but about the arising and dissolving of a thought. Three encounters unfold like three times—past, present, future; or three states of mind—desire, doubt, fear. Some act, some judge, while one keeps his eyes closed. Not seeing becomes a choice. Good and evil never truly occur; they exist only in the instant before a