Question: Why did the Buddha recognize a demon as a mother? Who are you looking at the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Journey to the West?
Text/Jiang Zi shushu
In the story of "Journey to the West", the Peacock Daming King Bodhisattva was originally the daughter of the phoenix, and later became Rulai's mother, telling a story of the Buddha recognizing his mother, which is quite strange.
Ru Lai said, "Then the phoenix must also be in harmony with each other, and breed peacocks and roc." When the peacock was born, it was the most evil, it could eat people, and it sucked people up forty-five miles. I was on the top of a snowy mountain, cultivating a golden body, and he had already sucked me down. I wanted to come out of his door, afraid of staining his true body, but I cut open his back and stepped onto the Spirit Mountain. If you want to hurt his life, when you are persuaded by the Buddhas, you will hurt the peacock as if you hurt my mother, so I leave him at the Spirit Mountain Meeting and make him the Buddha's mother Peacock Daming King Bodhisattva. ”
The official heard that this peacock and Dapeng were born of a mother, and Dapeng thus became Rulai's uncle. Just saying that the parents of these two are really unusual, and they are related to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Western World!
Excerpts from the original text of "Journey to the West": Ganpangu Kai, the Three Emperors Ruling the World, the Five Emperors Dinglun, and the world, it is divided into four major continents: Yue Dongsheng Shenzhou, YueXi Niuhe Zhou, Yue Nan Ganbu Zhou, and Yue Bei Ju Lu Zhou.
The official heard that the hometown of Sun Wukong, the Great Saint of Qitian, was Huaguo Mountain near dongsheng Shenzhou Aolaiguo; The hometown of Tang Monk and Li Shimin is Nanzhan Buzhou; Rulai is the Buddha of the Western Heavens, who lives on a certain hill in the West Niuhe Continent.
There are many versions of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in history, so which three emperors are the three emperors in the Journey to the West?
Jiang Zi believes that the statements in Zhuangzi and Taiping Guangji Laozi are closest to the five immortals in the Journey to the West.
In Zhuangzi, the emperor is the Nest Clan, which you can understand as the king of birds in the Journey to the West; The Emperor of the Earth is the Fu Ren Clan, corresponding to the King of the Beasts in the Journey to the West; The Zhisheng clan is a human emperor, which can also be understood as the Shennong clan, corresponding to the human emperor in the journey to the west.
In the Taiping Guangji Lao Tzu, these three emperors are only the lower three emperors, and there are also the three emperors of heaven, earth, and man in front. In the Journey to the West world, Rulai's sentence is also similar to the saying of "Taiping Guangji Laozi".
Rulai said, "Since that chaotic equinox, the heavens have opened up to the Son, the earth has opened up to the ugly, the earth has been born in Yin, the heavens and the earth have merged again, and all things have been born." All things have beasts and birds, and the beasts are long with unicorns, and birds are long by phoenixes. ”
Jiang Zi believes that instead of saying that there is a nest clan to solve the problem of human habitation, it is better to say that the Phoenix clan has a nest clan, do you believe that where do you see the Wuchao Zen master living in the Journey to the West World?
The master was looking at the horse from afar, and he saw that in front of the juniper tree, there was a nest of firewood and grass. On the left there are elk armature flowers, and on the right there are mountain monkeys offering fruit. At the head of the treetops, there are green birds and phoenixes singing in unison, and XuanHe jin chicken salty set. The Eight Rings said, "That's not the Wuchao Zen Master!"
Besides, we know that both the peacock and the roc are descendants of the phoenix, and Rulai is the grandson of the phoenix, so is it considered that the emperor has a phoenix family with a nest? Of course, if you don't believe it, when you came to accept your uncle Dapeng, what did the author call his head?
If you know this, that is, flash golden light, turn the magpie's nest through the head of the top, face the wind, and turn it into a bright red piece of flesh. The goblin wheel clawed at him, and the Buddha pointed his hand upwards, and the demon's wings were stiffened.
In the story of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong is transformed by stone eggs, the author compares him to a phoenix, the tiger pioneer of the Yellow Wind Monster to a bird magpie, and the monkey king is also conceived by a phoenix egg. Vilambo, along with the Pleiadian and the Nine-Headed Worm, are all members of the Phoenix clan.
Some people say that with fire, human beings solve the problem of eating, the earth emperor Furen clan is the human being who solves the problem of food, and in the western journey world, the beast king Qilin who can breathe fire is the earth emperor.
Summer accumulates more wages, winter is scorched, so the fate of the people who know life. It is not so much that the Zhisheng clan began to produce, but that the woodcutter in the journey to the west is the real Zhisheng, and you can see the moral mantra he sang called "Man Ting Fang".
"Guan Qi Ke Rotten, Logging Ding Ding, Yunbian Taniguchi Xu Xing, selling salary and selling wine, laughing wildly and self-cherishing." Autumn high, on the moon pillow pine root, a sleep of the dawn. Recognize the old forest, climb the cliff and cross the ridge, and hold an axe to break the dead vine. Harvested into a carton, the song on the market, Yi rice three liters. There is no competition, the price is flat, there will be no scheming, no honor and disgrace, and it will be quiet and prolonged. Where they meet, non-immortals are the Tao, and they sit quietly and talk about the Yellow Garden. ”
What is Zhisheng? Isn't it the phrase "but there is no one to say if you spare your life" in the mantra of The Immortal Wisdom Path of Master Subhuti? No wonder the Monkey King directly calls the very dressed woodcutter a god, this song "Man Ting Fang" can relax the heart, but also can solve the difficulties, the world is not enough to think about, instantly dissipated. Look at a conversation between the Monkey King and the woodcutter!
The Monkey King said, "Since your house is adjacent to the Immortals, why don't you practice from him?" Learn an ageless recipe? But not good?" The woodcutter said, "I have suffered all my life, and I have been raised by my parents since I was a child until I was eight or nine years old, and I did not know about human affairs until I was eight or nine years old. There are no more brothers and sisters, only me, helpless, morning and evening to serve. Provide for the old mother, so you can't practice. The Monkey King said, "According to you, he is a gentleman who practices filial piety, and he will benefit from the future." ”
The above three are the three emperors in the Journey to the West World, if you say the Five Emperors, the Jade Emperor is one of them, Dayu is also one of them, the Five Emperors are selected from among the human kings, so Sun Wukong said a word, the Tao is: The Lingxiao Treasure Hall is not his long, and the kings of the past generations have been passed down.
Yes, in the Journey to the West world, the three emperors and the "fowl king, beast king, and human king" are almost coincident, the difference is that the human emperor is a hermit who knows life, and the human king is the son of heaven, for example, the ten kings of the Senluo Baodian call themselves the ghost king of the underworld, and Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty taizong is the king of the Yang people.
In the Journey to the West World, in addition to the law of the human king, that is, the mighty obedience of the beast king, the monkey class is the exception of the ten categories of Zhou Tian, so the monkeys of Huaguoshan have such a sentence!
The monkeys said, "The Great King is not satisfied!" I wait for the day-to-day party, in the Blessed Land of the Immortal Mountains, the Ancient Cave Divine State, not under the jurisdiction of the Qilin, not under the control of the Phoenix, and not bound by the throne of the world, free and free, it is an immeasurable blessing, why worry about it in the distance?"
In the story of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong returned to his hometown and practiced martial arts day by day, and he was afraid of shocking the human king, or there were bird kings and beast kings who recognized this crime, and Xingshi came to kill each other, which stole the weapons of the proud country, and went to the Dragon Palace to look for treasures, vowing to make the power of Huaguo Mountain invincible.
Back to the original topic, since the phoenix is the emperor of all things, the three realms were once the three emperors ruling the world, the world is honored by the phoenix, the phoenix family is once the honor of ruling the world, even if the later human king unified the world, suppressed the birds and beasts, degraded them as demons, if you come to recognize its descendants as mothers, it is not a loss, after all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the prestige of the people is still there!
The information in this article is mainly quoted from: "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West", "Taiping Guangji Laozi", "Zhuangzi"