What does the mantra recited by Tang Seng mean?The translation of six characters into Chinese makes it difficult
The story of Sun Wukong and Tang Seng should be familiar to everyone, the TV series "Journey to the West", adapted from the four famous novels, will be rebroadcast every summer, it can be said that it has been left in the childhood memory of a generation, but in the TV series, people are most impressed by the Monkey King who was conceived by heaven and earth, he was born without knowing what is rank and what is dignity and humility, so he will cause a lot of trouble, and was later suppressed by the Buddha, and then by the Buddha. Later, he was suppressed by the Buddha, and then he was selected by Guanyin Bodhisattva to learn scriptures from Tang monk Xitian.
But Sun Wukong's nature is unruly, and a mortal like Tang Seng who has no power to restrain a chicken can't be suppressed, so there is the so-called tight hoop mantra, as long as Tang Seng's tight mantra is recited, Sun Wukong will have a headache and foot pain, and this effect is that Sun Wukong listens to Tang Seng attentively.
The effect of this spell is so great that one can't help but ask, what kind of spell is this?In fact, there are only six words of the anxiety mantra, but these six words are so powerful that even we have a headache when we hear them.
As mentioned earlier, Sun Wukong is a stone monkey, born with the aura of heaven and earth, he has no father and no mother, and even the preface of "Journey to the West" describes his life experience quite mysteriously, so there is a question, how Sun Wukong was born is very controversial, and now most people think that Sun Wukong was born from the spirit stone, it is the stone left by the original Nuwa when she mends the sky, and it is Sun Wukong who absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon. 000 years, in this stone!The Monkey King is a stone monkey.
When Sun Wukong was born, he was very reckless, because he was born with great strength, and no one taught him the rules of the world, so Sun Wukong had no concept of respect and inferiority in his heart, and he didn't think that he could be worse than others, which was also the reason why he later made trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
Even if the Heavenly Palace was in turmoil later, and the Buddha was suppressed after losing the competition, Sun Wukong did not exhaust this free nature, so Sun Wukong's breadth and profundity are not limited by anyone, and no secular rules can bind him, Sun Wukong has always acted with infinite nature.
It is precisely because Sun Wukong is truly boundless that there is a kind of magic of rope magic. After all, the Buddha trapped Sun Wukong under Wuzhi Mountain for 500 years, and did not make Sun Wukong docile and obedient, and later Guanyin Bodhisattva brought Sun Wukong to the west to accompany Tang Seng to complete the task of learning scriptures.
Tang Seng is a very typical compassionate monk, so he is also very good to Sun Wukong, but he also has his own rules, which do not apply to Sun Wukong at all, so Tang Seng can't control Sun Wukong.
Guanyin passed the mantra to Tang Seng so that Tang Seng could learn scriptures from the west unimpeded, so that Tang Seng could train Sun Wukong from time to time, in fact, this is also a kind of transcendence of Sun Wukong, if Sun Wukong completely surpasses the avenue, you can break through the six-character hoop mantra.
This mantra is only six words:"Om, well, what, horn, mi, huh", these six words are actually the heart language of Buddhism. The reason why these six words are used as a mantra also has its meaning. Translated into Chinese, people may not understand the meaning of these six words, but in Buddhist scriptures, these six words have their own meanings. It can be said that this mantra has a very high status in Buddhism.
The first word"Hmmm"It represents the various kinds of suffering that people have to go through in their lives. In fact, Buddhism often says that people have seven emotions and six desires, birth, old age, sickness and death, seven sufferings and eight difficulties, and Buddhism believes that only after experiencing all the reincarnation of suffering can people truly transcend and approach the real Elysium.
In the movie "Journey to the West,"Ninety-nine eighty-one catastrophes"refers to the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties that Sun Wukong has experienced, and only by tasting the suffering of the world can he obtain the true scriptures and be completely liberated. At the same time, this"it"The word also represents the fairy world in "Journey to the West" and Sun Wukong's road to becoming an immortal.
it"The word represents the path of Shura, and it also represents the spiritual needs of a person. In fact, it is a test for the master and apprentice in the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties, to test whether they can cling to themselves, whether they can be shrouded in evil thoughts, and only by testing their hearts can they finally obtain the true scriptures.
Among them,"it"On behalf of the way of the world, the choice of the world is tested;"Aba"It represents the way of the beast, and also symbolizes the troubled human world, which tests whether it can remain pure in the impure world"m"with"Bar"On behalf of the animal way,"Bar"It represents the way of the beast, and also symbolizes the troubled human world, which tests whether it can remain pure in the impure worldBar"It represents the animal way, and also symbolizes the turbid world, which tests whether people can remain pure in this impure world"Mi"with"Huh"They represent the path of hungry ghosts and the path of hell, represent all the achievements of people in this life, and also test people's sincerity to the Buddha.
These six signs may seem simple, but they encompass all things in the world and pave the way for the Monkey King. After all, Sun Wukong was born with the aura of heaven and earth, he is not related by blood, and he does not belong to any of the Three Realms, so Sun Wukong has indeed transcended the Three Realms, but he has not yet jumped out of the six reincarnations, so these six sentences are also a test of Sun Wukong's path to Buddhahood.
Sun Wukong said a total of thirteen mantras on the way to learn the scriptures, and each of these thirteen repetitions became a test for Sun Wukong. In the eyes of ordinary people, thirteen is actually not a favorable number, but in Buddhism, thirteen means perfection, and many Buddhist buildings in real life can see the shadow of perfection.
For example, ordinary stupas are generally built with thirteen floors, but the Potala Palace has only thirteen floors, so Thirteen is known for its merits in Buddhism, and the same is true in the movie "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong successfully completed the journey to Buddhism after chanting the mantra at the end.
At the same time, Sun Wukong has also changed from an insecure and natural Monkey King to what the Buddha is looking forward to"Buddha as it comes"。Therefore, at the end of the TV series, when Monkey King was canonized"Buddha as it comes", the golden hoop on his head naturally disappeared, marking the end of his awakening path. This also means that his path to enlightenment has been completed and he no longer needs the constraints of the mantra because he has passed all the tests of the six-character mantra.
This mantra also has real-life applications. Now, many people say that their parents' nagging is Tang Seng's mantra, which actually makes sense. After all, some of the instructions and the nagging of parents are the same as these exams, all in order to memorize certain lessons, avoid detours, and finally get good grades.
However, just like Monkey King listens to mantras, we will also feel a headache when we listen to these nagging, but in fact, when we reach the age and experience of our parents, we will no longer feel that these nagging are headaches, because these nagging are actually a kind of expectation of our parents.