March 29 - April 7
Keywords: Small talk Journey to the West
"Journey to the West" by Liu Bo
In this book "Journey to the West", the author starts from some details and proposes many refreshing explanations, which make people's brains open.
1. For the Eight Precepts, this sutra is not necessary, but if you want to cultivate the right results and enter the compilation, you must take down the work of committing to the bodhisattva. Therefore, on the way to the scriptures, the principle of the Eight Precepts is that if you can do less, you can do less.
If you don't work well, how can you survive in the team? After the Eight Precepts joined the company, they found that the team leader Tang Monk had needs and needed to gain the respect of his subordinates.
Since Sun Wukong worshiped the master, Tang Monk has not really gained respect, and as soon as the Eight Precepts joined, he immediately fulfilled Tang Monk's wishes.
2. When Sun Wukong was banished, he said to the sand monk: "Brother Xian, you are a good person. This is Sun Wukong's definite words to the sand monk.
However, the "good people" here do not mean that the sand monks are morally high, but because the sand monks never choose sides in their work. Sun Wukong has an excellent performance, and he does not expect the sand monk to help much, and the sand monk will not encourage the tang monk to recite the tight hoop mantra like the Eight Precepts of the Pig.
Sun Wukong fought hard to fight the monster and finally got the positive result, and the sand monk hit the soy sauce from the beginning to the end, and also obtained the positive result. Admittedly, this is indeed a kind of survival wisdom.
3. The author makes an interesting analogy that Bodhi Guru is "engaged in private education outside the system", and is also a Buddha, a non-Buddha, a non-Taoist, a miscellaneous family. Although it is free to carry out private education outside the system, the quality of students cannot be guaranteed. So Bodhidharma has the ability to do it, but his students have nothing to do. This can be understood, why Bodhi Grandmaster saw Goku so much, and specially opened a small stove for him, and spent ten years to cultivate a Sun Wukong who made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace.
4. The vulnerable Tianbing Tianjun in the Heavenly Court system is in stark contrast to the talented Erlang Shen and Bodhi Ancestor, reflecting the rigidity and conservatism of the imperial court in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The action of "Tang monks taking the scriptures" promoted by the Western Heaven system looks rigorous and orderly, and it must not be sloppy, but in fact, it is a big drama that Rulai entrusted Guanyin to choreograph, as long as it can achieve the maximum effect of religious dissemination, everything is negotiable.
A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets, and this "Journey to the West" is not intended to make an exclusive conclusion about the great literary work of Journey to the West, but only to propose explanations for every detail. There are many wonderful points in the book, and those who like it can go to a closer look.
Keyword: Coke
New family member added this week: Coke.
The name was given to my son who was in college. I remember having a spotted dog many years ago, not cultivating it, and I haven't had a dog or cat for so many years. This time, the wife took back a teddy dog, and the son also specially purchased a dog toilet, dog food, etc. to send home. With Coke at home, there are worries, need time to feed, the son confessed not to abuse, to raise well...
April 7, 2022
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