A single character is like the great ocean, which contains the water from all rivers. A single character is like the sun and moon, which illuminate the four quarters. This single character changes and becomes the moon. Rice plants change and become seedlings. Seedlings change and become stalks.
Stalks change and become rice.
Rice changes and becomes a person. And a person changes and becomes a Buddha. A woman changes and becomes the single character myo. The character myo changes and becomes Shakyamuni Buddha seated on a lotus pedestal. The version recounted here is different in some particulars.