As the saying goes, "The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway." "Anyone who has watched "Journey to the West" knows that Zhu Bajie was the "Marshal of Tianpeng" in the Heavenly Palace in his previous life, which is equivalent to the current naval commander in the world, but he was expelled from the heavenly realm and relegated to the mortal world because he was drunk and molested with Chang'e. And when he was reincarnated in the human world, he was reincarnated in the wrong place. Fortunately, Guanyin Bodhisattva was enlightened, and when the Tang monk and apprentice passed by Gao Laozhuang, they were subdued by Sun Wukong, and together they protected Tang Seng to go to the west to learn scriptures, and finally achieved positive results.
Zhu Bajie was originally the water god of the upper realm, in charge of the Tianhe 80,000 water army, proficient in 36 changes, the weapon is also made by the Taishang Laojun, the Jade Emperor personally gave the treasure Qin gold rake (commonly known as the nine-tooth nail rake). Just because the desire is not extinguished, the lust is bold, and the rules of heaven are violated, at the peach banquet of the queen mother's Yaochi, on a whim after getting drunk, he mistakenly broke into the Guanghan Palace, and teased the fairy in neon clothes, and the crime should be beheaded. But because of Tai Bai Xing's intercession, he was demoted to the lower realm by the Jade Emperor's decree.
Because the inferiority has not changed, when he was reincarnated in the world, he mistakenly cast a pig's fetus, which is the image of a half-pig, half-man and a pig-headed human body that everyone sees on TV. Of course, this is also the result of his lustful heart. Zhu Bajie began to fall into the grass in the Yunzhan Cave of Fuling Mountain, calling himself Zhu Gangguan. Guanyin Bodhisattva went to the east to find the person who took the scriptures according to the Buddha's order, and when he passed through Fuling Mountain, he was identified as the protector of the scriptures, and the name of the law was Zhu Wu Neng. Since then, he has taken refuge in Buddhism and waited for the person to take the scriptures. Later, he couldn't bear the loneliness, and transformed into a human form into Gao Laozhuang. It wasn't until Tang Seng and Sun Wukong passed by Gao Laozhuang that they were accepted by Sun Wukong as their second junior brother and protected Tang Seng to go to the west to learn scriptures.
If we were to conduct a public opinion poll now and ask everyone: "What do people live for?" and "What is the true meaning of life in the world?" probably the vast majority of people will answer: The purpose of people's lives is nothing more than to have food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, drink, and entertainment, money, beauty, promotion, and wealth. The so-called "there is wine today and drunk today, who cares about tomorrow's right or wrong."
After Zhu Bajie was accepted as an apprentice by Tang Seng, in order to let him get rid of various vices and return to his pure nature, he named him "Eight Precepts" ("Eight Precepts" is the precept prescribed by the Buddha for his disciples who practice at home: one precept to kill, two precepts to steal, three precepts to fornication, four precepts to lie, five precepts to drink, six precepts to incense, seven precepts to sit and lie on a high bed, and eight precepts to eat out of time). So everyone can see from Zhu Bajie's body that on the one hand, he is hard-working, honest and straightforward; on the other hand, he is selfish and greedy, lazy and lazy, greedy for women, and shouts to go back to Gao Laozhuang after a little setback, and he also likes to curry favor in front of his master, and even instigates Tang Seng to drive Sun Wukong, who is more capable than himself, back to Huaguo Mountain. Even such a person who is full of shortcomings has changed his evil ways and finally achieved positive results in the various demonic trials he encountered.
From the changes in Zhu Bajie's rebirth, you will find that the process of the four Tang monks and apprentices going to the West to learn scriptures is actually a self-cultivation process of continuous improvement and self-correction. This is the true purpose of every life in the afterlife.
Everyone saw through "Journey to the West" that the four Tang monks and apprentices went to the west to learn scriptures, although they went through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, they couldn't do any of them, and they all had to make up for it. But in the end, they all returned to Heaven and ranked in the Immortal Class. Even the lazy, greedy and lustful Zhu Bajie was named the "Pure Altar Messenger" by the Buddha.
In essence, the story of Zhu Bajie's past and present lives is to tell us that all living beings in the world are also like him, who came to the world step by step.