Bodhi Patriarch taught Sun Wukong a skill, why didn't he pass on the magic weapon? Did he have no magic weapon to pass on, or did he deliberately not pass it on?
In the world of immortals, after the apprentice leaves the school, the master will often teach the magic weapon. For example, Nezha, after Taiyi Zhenren taught him a skill, he also taught him magic weapons such as Chaotian Aya and Qiankun Circle. However, after Sun Wukong was born from the Bodhi Patriarch, the Bodhi Patriarch did not teach him any magic weapons, why is this?
Some people believe that it is not that Patriarch Bodhi does not want to teach the magic weapon of Sun Wukong, but that his three-star cave of the oblique moon is too poor and there is no magic weapon to teach at all.
In fact, the top gods in the Journey to the West world are often magic weapon inventors, so those top gods all have powerful magic weapons, and Bodhi Patriarch is naturally no exception.
As for why he didn't pass on the magic weapon of Sun Wukong, we need to first find out what happened between them Sun Wukong.
At the beginning, he taught Sun Wukong spells, and at first he did not plan to teach Sun Wukong seventy-two changes and other top spells, but recommended several other spells to Sun Wukong, such as static word door, magic word door, moving word door, etc.
What are the magical powers of these spells? There is no supernatural power, and the Jingzi Gate is the technique of "resting food and guarding the valley, being quiet and doing nothing, participating in Zen meditation, and fasting"; The word door is the technique of "please help the immortals and ask the yarrow"; And the moving word door is the technique of "picking yin and supplementing yang, burning grass and beating ding, entering red lead, and refining autumn stones".
To put it bluntly, after Sun Wukong learned these methods, he could only be an ordinary Taoist priest, knowing some skills in valley splitting, fortune-telling and alchemy, but he would not have strong mana.
So, why didn't Patriarch Bodhi want Sun Wukong to have strong mana in the first place?
Seeing that these spells were too mediocre and could not achieve immortality, Sun Wukong resolutely did not want to learn them, saying that he only wanted to learn the art of immortality. The Bodhi Patriarch had no choice but to teach him the recipe of the great heavenly immortals.
However, learning the Great Heavenly Immortal Recipe may not be able to achieve immortality, because the heavens will descend on the Heavenly Tribulation every five hundred years, testing those who practice the art of immortality, and only by avoiding the Heavenly Tribulation can they truly live forever, otherwise they will still fall into reincarnation.
With an attitude of being responsible for Sun Wukong, Patriarch Bodhi decided to teach him the method of avoiding the catastrophe. There are many ways to avoid the catastrophe, such as eight or nine Xuangong, practicing this method, not only can you avoid the catastrophe, but also have unlimited supernatural powers. It is impossible for the Bodhi Patriarch not to understand, however, what he taught to Sun Wukong was the lowest level of seventy-two changes.
Seventy-two changes, also known as the method of avoiding the three calamities, although it can avoid the catastrophe, it does not have too much powerful actual combat, and it is mainly a change technique. So, why does Patriarch Bodhi only wear the seventy-two changes with the lowest combat effectiveness of Sun Wukong?
Let's take a look at what Monkey King said to him when he came down the mountain. He sternly warned Sun Wukong: "After you go down the mountain, no matter how you make trouble, you are not allowed to say my name, otherwise you will be skinned and filed, and your soul will be relegated to the land of the Nine Shadows, so that you will not be able to turn over." ”
This series of doubts, as well as Patriarch Bodhi's warning to Sun Wukong, all hint at a truth, that is, Patriarch Bodhi does not want Monkey King to have too strong mana, and he is also worried that Sun Wukong's mana is too strong, and he will be affected by troubles in the future.
It is precisely because of this that the Bodhi Patriarch did not teach the Monkey King magic weapon. Because Sun Wukong has mastered powerful mana cultivation by learning spells such as seventy-two changes, if he passes on the magic weapon to him again, his combat power will inevitably be stronger, and he may cause even greater disasters in the future. What do you think?