We have all seen one of the four famous works of China, "Journey to the West", but after reading it for a long time, have you ever felt that there is a very strange phenomenon, that is, Tang Monk went to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures is 108,000 miles, and Sun Wukong's heel is exactly 108,000 miles, so we say that Sun Wukong flew with Tang Monk on his back, so why don't they let them fly?
Take the Scriptures for a foursome
Why you have to go through these nine-nine-eighty-one difficulties is very interesting. If we really read this Journey to the West in its entirety, we will find that Journey to the West is not a novel at all, "Journey to the West" is a process of cultivating Buddhism, and everyone in the whole book is part of the Tang monks, or part of an ordinary and complete person.
Monkey king
First look at Sun Wukong, in fact, there is no existence of Sun Wukong at all, Sun Wukong is actually the heart of Tang Monk, I have an idiom called: "heart ape means horse", our heart will climb like a monkey. Seeing this thing and thinking about that thing, seeing that thing thinking about that, climbing farther and farther. This is our characteristic. So our hearts change like seventy-two, our minds change, our hearts can be one hundred and eighteen thousand miles, you don't believe you can try, use your heart to go to New York, go? Went; did the Statue of Liberty see it? See; go to Africa! Arrived? Arrived; good to come back! Just come back. Therefore, all the skills of Sun Wukong are the unfettered mind of an ordinary person, the impact that can be brought about, this thing is huge in strength and the most destructive, so this is also the characteristic of Sun Wukong.
Pig
So what do the Eight Precepts of the Pig mean? We found that the Eight Precepts of the Pig do something, do so many bad things, Tang Monk never blames the Eight Precepts of the Pig, Tang Monk always scolds Sun Wukong, Tang Monk does not care much about the Eight Precepts of pigs, right, it does not matter how the Eight Precepts of the Pig do, because the Eight Precepts of the Pig represent the desire of Tang Monk as an ordinary person. Tang Monk did not move when he saw women, he was not moved when he saw food, and he was not moved when he saw money, but the eight precepts of the pig were all moved, and there were many greedy and lustful people who amassed wealth. We are more tolerant of the mistakes we make about our desires, and feel that these are all mistakes that ordinary people will make, so we ignore it and forgive it.
What is a sand monk? In journey to the West, every sentence that Sha Monk said is correct, that is, "Master Brother, Master was captured by the youkai"; "Master Brother, Second Master Brother was captured by the Youkai"; "Master Brother, Master Brother and Second Master Brother were captured by the Youkai". Everything he said was right, but boring. It is that the sand monk is not interesting, this person represents the rationality and logic of the Tang monk, so the sand monk has always carried the burden, and reason and logic are the ones who work, so the sand monk has been carrying the burden to work.
The White Dragon Horse represents the will of the Sand Monk, that is, whether you go or not, the White Dragon Horse will say that I must go, this is his will. That's how "heart apes" come about.
White Dragon Horse
What is the Bull Demon King? In the novel, the Bull Devil King is the twin brother of Sun Wukong, which means that on the one hand, our hearts are developing and cultivating in the direction of Sun Wukong, to become a fighting Buddha; the other is still spreading wild outside, and the bull devil who is still spreading wild outside is the Bull Devil King. Who is the bull demon king with the most powerful? It is the most powerful with the Iron Fan Princess, why is the Iron Fan Princess hidden under the tongue? Because the tongue is the easiest to incite the wind and ignite the fire, the fan fan out of one side is the wind, the other side of the fan out is fire, see how terrible. This is the function of our tongue.
Therefore, the whole "Journey to the West" is about the process of one person's cultivation, and in the end, Sun Wukong's heart is cultivated well, and it becomes a fighting buddha. Then Sun Wukong and Buddha Ru said to remove the golden hoop ring on his head, and the Buddha said you touch it, once you touch it, there is nothing at all!
Fight to defeat the Buddha
Who binds you? In Zen Buddhism, it is said who bound you and who tied you up? It's what we tie ourselves up. Mencius's saying that learning to be at ease is actually to enable us to learn to live in the present moment with clear thoughts.