"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, there is a question I don't know if everyone has considered it, the Jade Emperor is obviously a Taoist immortal, why is he so powerful to help Rulai, to assist him to complete the cause of learning the scriptures? Many friends believe that the so-called sutra collection is not the Tang monk who took Sun Wukong sand monk pig eight precepts to rulai Buddha's place to return the scriptures to the Tang Dynasty?
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In fact, what everyone sees is only the appearance, the plan for taking the scriptures has actually begun to be laid out for many years as early as N years ago, and it has been approved by the Jade Emperor, while Tang Monk and others are only implemented according to the plan, in other words, the Tang monk team is actually just a pawn of the scripture plan, and the victory or defeat has long been determined. If you don't believe it, you can see, there is no support from the big guy behind the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties, that is, it is a difficulty, and Guanyin Bodhisattva immediately found a way to make up for it.
Another friend said that where the Jade Emperor gave support, it was just relying on Sun Wukong's face to help. In fact, the words of Guanyin Bodhisattva who promised Sun Wukong on the way to the sutra can be seen, when the bodhisattva said six words to the monkey: called Tian Tian Ying, called the earth spirit. Can you analyze it carefully, can these six words be achieved by Guanyin Bodhisattva alone? Although the bodhisattva is highly powerful, it is still difficult to get the three realms to cooperate, she is only the five parties and five elders in the heavenly court, can she mobilize the three Qing and four emperors and other immortals? Surely not, if you can't do it, how can you promise those six words to Sun Wukong? The only explanation is that this move was supported by the Jade Emperor, who promised to "call the heavens and the earth spirits" when it was difficult to learn the scriptures. In fact, the original book is also reflected, and in the 16th time in the book, there is the following statement:
He couldn't say anything, but when the King of Heaven arrived early, he greeted the walker and said, "Jiukuo, Jiukuo." Before I heard that Guanyin Bodhisattva came to see the Jade Emperor, borrowed the Four Values of Gong Cao, The Six Dings and Six Jia and revealed the truth, etc., to protect the Tang monks to go to the Western Heavens to take the scriptures, saying that you have become an apprentice with him, how can you be idle here today? ”
Seeing that, in fact, Guanyin Bodhisattva had already greeted the Jade Emperor, and even the 39 immortals who secretly guarded the Tang Monk were borrowed from the Jade Emperor. So why did the Jade Emperor help Rulai so much?
Jade emperor
In fact, the Jade Emperor is just like the ancient emperors, he also wants to stabilize the regime, and the situation facing the Heavenly Court is that the Taoists are dominant, and the vast majority of the immortals who work in the Heavenly Court are from the Taoist family, and the actual leader of the Taoists is Yuan Shi Tianzun, who is not as big as Lao Jun, who cares about the alchemy every day, and tianzun wants power, from the words of Emperor Zhenwu, we can see a bit of cattiness:
When I was in the north of Weizhen, I commanded the position of Zhenwu and cut down the demons and evils in the world, which was the edict of the Jade Emperor. Later, he put on his hair and feet, stepped on the snake god turtle, led the five thunder gods, the giant lion, and the beast poisonous dragon, and lowered the black qi demon atmosphere in the northeast, which was called by the Yuan Shi Tianzun.
Governing the Three Realms is the duty of the Jade Emperor, and the demon removal is even more for the stability of the mortal world, and these Jade Emperors have an unshirkable responsibility, so he ordered the First God of War in the Heavenly Court, The True Wu Emperor, to cut down the world's demons, but Yuan Shi Tianzun was not willing to be lonely, and issued a spell to let the True Wu Emperor collect the black qi demon atmosphere in the northeast. Objectively speaking, there is nothing wrong with this, but if you are the Jade Emperor, what will you think, it was originally my job, it was overstepping others, and it was still my subordinates who were used, is there a bit of a taste of power struggle? The most important thing is that Emperor Zhenwu really went.
Imagine if you were a leader and your subordinates listened to others and did the work you were going to do? Do you hate that person and your subordinates? A pot of porridge I think the Jade Emperor will also be very angry, so capable subordinates actually listen to the orders of others, then I must have some arrangements, cool this subordinate for a period of time, and at this time the Buddhist sect led by Rulai rises, and it is so obedient, so on the way, let him surrender to a Sun Wukong, after the people finish doing it, turn their heads and leave, do not pay, such a subordinate can not like? Therefore, Buddhism was propped up, and in the heavenly court, it could compete with the Taoist forces.
Emperor Zhenwu
And the Zhenwu Emperor also saw the hint, sitting in wudang mountain, without the will of the Jade Emperor, he did not even dare to help the monkey surrender to the Yellow Brow King. It can be seen that this hand operation of the Jade Emperor has played an effect. In fact, this is very similar to many scenes in life, and everyone will understand it by comparing it. Or that sentence, Journey to the West is broad and profound, there are many scenes similar to real life, we can cope with today's life through understanding it, so Journey to the West is not outdated, what do you think?