Many people don't know that "Journey to the West" is the first ** in the Ming Dynasty, what is the reason why this book has not seen the light of day for hundreds of years? What secrets does it hide? This article explains it for you!
"Journey to the West" begins with writing: If you want to know the Yuan Gong of the Creation Society, you must read the biography of Journey to the West. Meaning: If you want to know the true meaning of life, you must watch Journey to the West! It's a pity that there are very few people who can understand "Journey to the West" for hundreds of years.
Once you understand "Journey to the West", you will understand the meaning of life! In "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong, Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, and Bailongma, the five masters and apprentices, are just one person!
Sun Wukong is the heart of a person, Tang Seng is the Buddha nature of a person, Zhu Bajie is a person's **, Monk Sha is a person's hands, and the white dragon horse is a person's willpower.
Look at the heart first, "Lengyan Sutra" says that the heart has seventy-two phases, and Wukong also has seventy-two changes. The human heart is very fickle, and it changes seventy-two times in an instant. In the "Diamond Sutra", it says: How can the clouds subdue their hearts? The five masters and apprentices fight monsters on the West Heaven Road, which actually refers to the process of a person getting rid of demons on the road of life.
Sun Wukong's ability is so great, and he can't escape the dancing Five Elements Mountain of the Buddha, which symbolizes "greed, hatred, stupidity, slowness, and suspicion", even if the Monkey King is in heaven and earth, he will be trapped by these five poisons, this is our heart. Refining the heart can make people's hearts and eyes bright, so the gossip furnace has refined Sun Wukong's fiery eyes. Goku's eyes lit up, symbolizing that the heart was open. This is the "to conscience" of Yangming Xinxue, the "stop at the highest goodness" of Confucianism, and the "clear mind and insight" of Zen Buddhism.
In the Tao Te Ching, it is said that the five colors make people blind, the five tones make people deaf, the five flavors make people feel refreshed, and galloping to hunt makes people crazy.
Our six roots have been deceiving our brains. Sun Wukong later killed six robbers, the names of these six robbers are: seeing joy, hearing anger, nose smelling love, tongue tasting thoughts, body worries, and opinions, which is to clear his six roots with his heart, representing the six roots of purity. Sun Wukong's somersault is 108,000 miles, which is exactly the distance to the western sky. It means: no matter how far the west sky is, a thought will arrive! If you can change your mind, you no longer need to go through 9981 difficulties and 108,000 miles, if you can't let go of your obsession, then wait for the society to cut a thousand knives. Guanyin Bodhisattva once incarnated as Wuchao Zen Master to teach Tang Seng a "Heart Sutra", which has a saying: color is emptiness, emptiness is color. See that the five aggregates are empty, and overcome all suffering. And said to him: "The Buddha is not far away in the spiritual mountain, and the spiritual mountain is only in your heart." It's a pity that Tang Seng didn't understand the connotation until he arrived in Lingshan. Zhu Bajie represents our desires, greedy for money, lazy, lazy, and wants to go back to Gao Laozhuang in the face of danger, which is the instinctive reaction of people, which psychology calls the "self", which controls our emotions and desires.
Sha Seng represents our hands, hard work to help us work, our hands are very contradictory, sometimes to listen to the body, sometimes to listen to the heart, sometimes to listen to the brain.
The dawn of sober darkness often says: many people are industrious with their hands, but the brain and the heart are lazy, and they often use the diligence of their hands to cover the laziness of the brain, or the flexibility of the brain to cover the numbness of the heart.
Tang Seng represents our Buddha nature, all living beings have Buddha nature, everyone has a Buddha heart, this Buddha heart is different from Sun Wukong's vain heart, it is the true self, is the innate heart, no matter what happens, do not improve good, do not change compassion. Therefore, no matter what Tang Seng encounters, what he sees is beauty, always believe in the original kindness of others, and firmly believe that everyone has Buddha nature, and the spirit of always believing in beauty and never giving up in him is the most glorious side of Buddha nature.
Why did Tang Seng almost stay in his daughter's country on the way to learn the scriptures? Because the saddest thing in life is love. The daughter country is the saddest level, and it is even more difficult than subduing demons and subduing demons, because people themselves are born out of desires, and without greed and desire, they will not come to the world of Buddha. The seven spider spirits represent the seven emotions and six desires of a person, trapping people like a spider's web.
The three images of the white bone spirit represent a person's love, love, and desire, and Sun Wukong killed them all, which means that only the heart can subdue desire.
Everyone's life is a "Journey to the West", which is a process of overcoming all difficulties and understanding the mind! After arriving in the West Heaven, the reason why the Buddha gave Tang Seng the wordless scripture is because the "wordless scripture" is the "true scripture", and the "experience" along the way is far better than the "** itself, and the process of learning the scriptures is more important than the results of the scriptures!
The experience of this road is sublimated, this is the true meaning of learning scriptures in the west, as for those scriptures are "phases", once you are still attached to those scriptures in the west, it means that you are still not enlightened, because you are in phase again!
If a person can go through all the hardships of the world and still maintain his enthusiasm, even if he has not yet reached the Western Heavens, he has already become a Buddha.