The Ming Dynasty produced four famous novels: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Jin Pingmei", and "Journey to the West".
Among the four novels, "Journey to the West" is the most famous, but the author of "Journey to the West" has remained a mystery until the Qing dynasty scholar Wu Yuxuan attributed the copyright of "Journey to the West" to his fellow Huai'an Wu Chengen in the name of archaeology.
At the same time, the author of "Jin Ping Mei" is also a mystery. So, why didn't the author of "Journey to the West" dare to sign it? It has neither the risk of social weathering in "Jin Pingmei", nor the rebellious tendencies of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin". Could it be that the author has already hinted at his identity and occupation in the book?
The sutra retrieval team is like a chariot, there is a Tang monk who points the direction, a white dragon horse pulling a chariot, a sand monk who carries a load, a Bajie who coordinates and organizes, and Wukong who is responsible for fighting. One of the central characters of this chariot is Goku, a stone monkey that jumps out of a crack in a stone. When a spiritual stone is blown by a strong wind, it becomes a stone monkey, so Goku is a stone.
Goku's stone should have both calcium carbonate and silica components. The calcium carbonate ingredient has the character of "crushing the body and bones without fear, and leaving innocence in the world", Wukong has the arrogance of making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and the arrogance of tampering with the book of life and death; The composition of silica includes the transparency and agility of glass jadeite, the stability and speed of glass optical fiber, Wukong's discerning fire eye and the speed of the muscles cloud, and the multi-faceted form of 72 changes.
The other four on the chariot were not mortals, either demons who had committed rings or immortals who had made mistakes. Therefore, the scripture route is the process of solving the problem by the demon five. The composition materials of these four bits should not be stones, and the possible materials are: gaseous or solid toxic organic or inorganic substances, and even viruses and bacteria in aerosols. Of course, they can also be medicinal herbs or antidotes after poisoning. The philosophy of fighting poison with poison unifies poison and antidote.
The real Tang Sanzang sutra was taken on foot to India. Along the way, in addition to the poisonous snakes and beasts visible to the naked eye, the poisonous gas or miasma that mortals cannot observe, as well as viruses, and of course, hunger. Therefore, the friendly organic and inorganic substances that existed as medicinal materials and antidotes protected the Tang monk's safe journey.
Regarding Goku, there are two major plays, one is Lion Moose Ridge and the other is the six-eared macaque.
The Lion's Moose Ridge is full of stones and, of course, stone caves where demons are hidden. Are demons going to eat people, and are demons who don't eat people still demons? Therefore, the demon cave in Lion Moose Ridge was full of corpses, blood flowed like rivers, and bones were white.
The monsters on Lion's Moose Ridge may be poisonous gases such as miasma. The tragic situation on Lion's Moose Ridge shows that the road to obtaining the scriptures is very difficult, but the phenomenon of going forward and following is obvious.
Wukong was afraid when he saw this scene, which showed that Wukong's mind was out of demonic nature, indicating that Wukong's cultivation had improved.
The six-eared macaque is a clone of Goku, and even the other four members of the scripture retrieval team can't tell the difference. Obviously, the six-eared macaque came to pick peaches and grab the work. The Guanyin sent the six-eared macaque to stir up the situation in order to test whether the five-person group had cultivated into "five essences are empty".
This scene should be that the Tang monk was poisoned and hallucinated, or lost. Without excessive desire, there will be no hallucinations and no major health problems. Desirelessness and rigidity and static braking have struck the coherence between science and Buddhism.
On the way to the scriptures, some demons and ghosts are mirrors of the five, and some demons and ghosts are acceptance teams. A series of designs are designed to remove the demons of the tainted five. To get rid of the demons of the mind is to become a Buddha.
This way, poisoning, detoxification; Sick, heal. This road, through thousands of hardships, read thousands of mountains, the mind is naturally broad, and the mood is naturally light and breezy.
Therefore, the author of "Journey to the West" is a very leisurely warden or headmaster, who is addicted to stones, drugs, poison.