Journey to the West is a very popular book, the age span is very large, from children to the elderly, can be in different grades, like Journey to the West.
This is a book with very open meaning, people of different ages can read different feelings from it, and in the hearts of a thousand people, there are a thousand Journey to the West and Sun Wukong.
But at the same time, there are also many mysteries in journey to the west, and in the process of continuously solving the puzzles, everyone understands the more interesting and profound meaning behind journey to the west, and can enrich the connotation of the journey to the west through interpretation from different angles, forming a huge journey to the west world.
At the beginning of the journey to the west story, many people will wonder why it is such a big thing to take the sutra, how can the person Guanyin Bodhisattva find is actually four sinful prisoners?
It is reasonable to say that taking the scriptures is a big task jointly organized by the Buddhist world and the heavenly court, as long as the news is released, some of them are all kinds of great gods who are willing to ensure that the Tang monks go to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, so why should they choose four sinners in the heavenly court to play the role of protectors of the scriptures.
Many people say that taking the sutra is not the Tang King Li Shimin, for the sake of the land and water conference, to surpass the souls of the dead, and let the Tang monks go to the Western Heavens to take the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures.
This is only a superficial reason, we usually say that the Western Heavens take the scriptures, but only in layman's terms, strictly speaking, this is not called taking the scriptures, but called sending the scriptures.
That is to say, Rulai wanted to send his Mahayana Buddhist scriptures to the people of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, but he was worried about the scriptures sent by Bai, and the people of the Great Tang did not pay attention to them, so he thought of a way to turn the sending of the sutras into the collection of the scriptures, and Li Shimin's tour of the prefecture was a well-designed plot, which made him mistakenly think that he urgently needed those scriptures.
So good and decent, why do you want to send sutras, is his heart too good, he is indeed good-hearted, but this is not the main reason, the fundamental purpose is to expand the strength of the Buddhist sect.
Every organization has the impulse to expand its own, there is no doubt about it, if you want to expand the Buddhist sect, send the scriptures to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and expand its strength, this is certainly not a conspiracy theory, it is simply an expansion of strength.
And before the bodhisattva left, Rulai gave three hoops, all of which were the kind that saw flesh and took root, and said very clearly, when encountering a demon that is very difficult to surrender, I will use this, and I can use this.
Later, Guanyin only used one, that is to say, the purpose of Rulai at the beginning was very clear, sending sutras to expand strength, and those few sutra takers must also be pulled in as the living forces of the Buddhist sect.
Therefore, if it is such a big thing as taking the scriptures, if it is the Open Selection of Outstanding Talents in the Heavenly Realm of the Buddha's Realm, there will certainly be many people who have signed up, and the selected ones will definitely be first-class outstanding talents.
But the problem is, such an excellent talent, tianting also wants to do something, especially after the talent is too excellent, he chooses more opportunities, not necessarily follow the Buddhist sect with a dead heart.
Therefore, adhering to the principle of expanding their strength, these disciples are going to stay in the Buddhist Sect and become the new force of the Buddhist Sect, and they must also be strong in terms of strength, but they are not what any shrimp soldier or crab will want.
Therefore, finding those sinners who are not wanted by the heavenly court has become the best choice for bodhisattvas, and since several of them have been abandoned by the heavenly court, there will certainly be no problem in entering the Buddhist sect in the future.
Second, these disciples are very good at their skills, and this way, Guan Shiyin, as the specific person in charge, also beat the rabbit with grass, subdued the black bear essence and the red child, and the Buddhist sect also has more powerful monsters like the Bull Demon King.
Several disciples, from the very beginning, the primary goal for the bodhisattvas was to ensure that they could become the new forces of the Buddha's sect in the future, so it was most appropriate to choose the guilty people in the heavenly court.