Question: Tang Monk didn't know how important Sun Wukong was to him before he died!
Text/Jiang Zi shushu
In the story of "Journey to the West", Tang Monk has always felt that Sun Wukong is unkind, loses his temper at every turn, kills mortals, and does not listen to the teachings, so he has expelled Sun Wukong many times.
Once, Sun Wukong killed Lady Bai Bone three times, and Tang Monk thought that he had killed a family of three people, and at the instigation of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, he drove away Sun Wukong, and the Monkey King returned to Huaguo Mountain and said such a thing.
The Great Sage said, "Little ones, you don't know, that Tang Sanzang doesn't know the wise and foolish." I caught monsters and demons for him along the way, and I did my best to kill goblins in my family, and he said that I was committing evil deeds, did not want me to be an apprentice, drove me back, wrote a derogatory book for a photo, and never listened to it. ”
Another time, several hair thieves blocked the road and robbed, and were injured by the walker's stick, and Sanzang said hatefully, "The monkey head has passed!" Wait for me to pluck the soil and burn incense and pray. "How do you see him praying?"
Tang Sanzang Zhuyun: "You go to Your Highness Sen Luo to raise the word, fall the tree and look for roots, his surname is Sun, my surname is Chen, and each of them has a different surname." There is a head for wrongs, and there is a master for debts, so don't sue me for taking sutras from the monks. ”
The officials heard that Tang Monk pushed it clean, and the Eight Precepts of the Pig and the Sand Monk also followed suit, and Sun Wukong exposed Tang Monk on the spot as ruthless, and he killed mao thief, but he only learned the scriptures for Tang Monk.
Later, the six-eared macaque stunned Tang Monk, and the old monk gritted his teeth even more with hatred for Sun Wukong. On the way to the scriptures, Tang Monk chanted a tight mantra to Sun Wukong countless times, eager to kill this inferior person on the spot.
The official heard that Tang Monk did not listen to Sun Wukong's advice, and hated him for not obeying the master's orders, and the contradiction between the master and the disciple was higher than the sky and thicker than the earth, but before Tang Monk died many times, the first person who came to mind was Sun Wukong.
In the story of "Journey to the West", the team passed by Xiao Xitian, and Tang Monk did not listen to Sun Wukong's words and had to go in, and as a result, Sun Wukong was imprisoned by the Yellow Brow King into the Golden Gang, and Tang Monk and others were also tied up.
Sanzo cried, "Goku! I hated myself for not listening to orders at that time, which caused me to suffer today. The golden hammer hurt you, and the hemp rope tied me I know. The four of them suffered from fate and fate, and the three thousand meritorious deeds were exhausted. Why should we solve the difficulties and frankly go to the West to return!"
The official heard that the Great Sage was a person who did not care about the previous suspicions, he had a large number of adults, and when he saw that Tang Monk remembered himself, he immediately felt compassion and took the initiative to ice with his master to release his previous suspicions and save his life.
When the practitioner heard this, he secretly felt pity for himself, "Although the master did not listen to my words, he is now poisoned by this poison, but in the midst of suffering, he still has the intention of remembering his old grandson." Take advantage of this night to sleep quietly, unguarded, and go to the liberation of the crowd and wait for escape. ”
In the story of "Journey to the West", Che Chi Guo stopped, Tang Monk saw Sun Wukong being cooked to death by boiling oil, remembering that Sun Wukong had been teaching since he was taught, he had made meritorious achievements, and Yun xian died as a god, he wanted to burn a strange paper for the big disciple, the cousin and apprentice thought, you see how he wished the pot?
Sanzang said to the pot, "Apprentice Sun Wukong! Since I was ordained to worship the Zen Forest, I have been deeply in love with the West. Hope that at the same time become the road, when will you return to yin today! Before he died, he only prayed for the sutras, and after he died, he still had the heart of the Buddha. The soul of the Thousand Mile Hero must wait, and the netherworld will do the ghost on the thunder!"
You see, although Tang Monk and Sun Wukong have all kinds of differences, every time before Tang Monk dies, he will thank Sun Wukong for his meritorious protection of the Fa, and think that Sun Wukong and him are one and the same, and they are all members of the Longhua Society.
Even the Eight Precepts of the Pig, who is specially opposed to Sun Wukong on weekdays, scolds Sun Wukong as a boiled Bow Ma Wen at this moment, and when faced with black and white impermanence, he still remembers to go to the netherworld with Sun Wukong!
In the story of "Journey to the West", on the West Heaven Road, Sun Wukong, the disciple, has explained the Heart Sutra to the Tang monk many times, no wonder Guanyin Bodhisattva said that the West Heaven Road is indispensable to the Great Sage of Qi Tian, Tang Sanzang, the master, also understands the importance of Sun Wukong to the sutra collection team, I don't believe you see this master and apprentice two talking about the scriptures and discussing the Tao.
The practitioner said, "Master only read it, and he didn't ask the master to understand it." Sanzang said, "Monkey head! How can I say that I have not solved! Can you solve it?" The walker said, "I understand, I understand." Since then, the three Tibetans and the walkers have not made a sound.
Why did the two masters and apprentices suddenly stop making a sound? Pig Eight Precepts and Sha Monk could not understand, thinking that Sun Wukong was just talking big words, but Tang Monk understood that this big disciple was really enlightened.
Laughing at the side, he poured out an eight-precept, liked a sand monk, and said, "Mouth and face! For my ordinary goblin origin, and not there Zen and Son, I have heard the sermons, where I should be Buddhist monks, and have I also seen the sayings? Make a fool of yourself, find a shelf, say what you know, solve it! Why don't you make a sound? Listen! Please understand!" Sha Monk said, "Second brother, you also believe in him." The eldest brother talked long and coaxed the master to walk. He knows how to make a stick, he knows how to preach!" Sanzang said, "Goku can be enlightened, Hugh wants to talk nonsense, Goku's solution is a wordless word, but a true solution." ”
It can be seen that the Western Heavens took the Scriptures, and the Heart Sutra without words, and Sun Wukong is just the Heart Ape, if you come to give the Wordless Heavenly Book to the people who take the Scriptures, it is not the two Venerables who are cheating, it is really the world who can't understand the "Journey to the West" and "The Tale of the Journey to the West"!
The information in this article is quoted from: Journey to the West