In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time, and the pure essences of heaven, the moisture of the earth, the powers of the sun and the moon, all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation, and it became magically fertile. That first egg was named 'thought'. Tathagata Buddha, the father Buddha, said: "With our thoughts we make the world." Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey in his pants.
The nature of monkey was irrepressible!