Every youkai on the West Heaven Road has a meaning.
All the monsters are all a metaphor, all are the illusion of the demons.
Every youkai represents the things in the world that implicate people, and they are all a person's own demons.
The process of learning the Scriptures from the Western Heavens is the process by which a person removes demons from his heart.
The five masters and apprentices constantly remove demons on the way to learn the scriptures, which refers to a person's continuous victory over demons on the road of life.
For example, the Black Bear Monster is a demon of the heart, and Goku's anger causes him to set fire to the Guanyin Zen Temple, so there is a heart demon that hinders him from becoming a Buddha, so the Black Bear Monster comes.
The Bull Demon King is also the transformation of Goku's Heart Demon, and the Red Child, the Bull Demon King, and the Flame Mountain are all flames in the heart.
The Bull Demon King and Goku are brothers, and they are evenly matched, so the anger is to compete with themselves.
The cause of the formation of the Flame Mountain was that in the early years, Sun Wukong kicked down a fire brick, and the Flame Mountain Fire was released by Goku after he came out of the Bagua Furnace to produce a bad breath, but in the end he burned himself.
The difficulty of the Flame Mountain was born of Sun Wukong's stubborn heart in his early years, so it is said that "the cow king was originally a heart ape change", to "break the stubborn void to see the Buddha's face", where Sun Wukong cut off the stubborn heart.
The Red Child symbolizes the fire of hatred, and a person who lives in hatred will only end up burning his own heart (the Red Child burns Goku).
In addition, the red child also symbolizes the "naked child", and we must keep the heart of the naked child.
"Adults, do not lose their pure heart", keep the heart of the child on the road of life, do not be burned by their own "samadhi true fire", and keep that childlike heart (the naked child is saved by the bodhisattva).
The Yellow Wind Monster blows the Kamikaze, and he represents the social atmosphere, which can make people's hearts (Goku) lose their way.
The three images of the white bone spirit represent a person's feelings, love, and desires, and the heart beats them all to death, indicating that on the road of life, we must control our feelings, loves, and desires, and do not let them become obstacles to our progress.
In addition, the white bone essence also symbolizes the human skin mask, and the human skin mask (white bone essence) can elicit people's instinctive desires, so the Eight Precepts of the Pig begin to stir up dissension; people lose their hearts, so the Tang monks drove Sun Wukong away.
Man is always fascinated by the appearance of beauty in the world.
Money (King of the Golden Horn, King of the Silver Horn) can bind and seal people's hearts, and it is difficult to escape.
The author compares this truth to the King of the Golden Horn and the King of the Silver Horn who tied Sun Wukong with a golden rope and sealed Sun Wukong with a purple gold gourd.
Later in Xiao Xi tian, the yellow-browed monster pretending to be the Buddha sealed Sun Wukong with a golden hammer, which also symbolizes money, and money can trap the heart.
The seven spider spirits represent the seven passions and six desires of man, and the seven passions and six desires are like the web of the spider knot, which can trap people.
The world is born of thoughts (silk) and is entangled in love. The centipede spirit has a thousand eyes on its body, which is a symbol of the various material desires seen by the human eye.
The scorpion essence represents beauty, and beauty is like a scorpion that can hook people, so several masters and apprentices can't beat her.