Then the problem is coming. What is the origin of this bodhi? Why did he name this stone monkey the Monkey King? Why do you want to pass on the secret of mental method to wild stone monkeys?
This is a place that is easy to ignore when reading a westward journey, but it should not be ignored. Subhuti's action is by no means spontaneous, and its profound meaning was not solved until I recently read the Diamond Sutra.
As a Buddhist disciple, it is the original intention of Xu Bodhi to choose the stone monkey. In The Journey to the West, Xu Bodhi is described as the image of "either being immortal or being Taoist, sitting and talking" and "sharing the same life with heaven, robbing the exorcist of his clear mind".
In fact, Xu Bodhi is an out-and-out Buddhist disciple. He is one of the top ten disciples of Buddha Sakyamuni, and he is best at "solving emptiness".
What is an "empty solution"? When it comes to Buddhism, almost everyone can say a few words related to "emptiness", such as "everything is emptiness", "emptiness is color, and color is emptiness", but if they really want to say how to understand "emptiness", they can't say why. What is "empty"? Xu Bodhi knows it best and can explain it in the most popular way. Therefore, Xu Bodhi is known as "the first person to solve the void".
The process of Xu Bodhi naming the stone monkey is one of his "empty" operations.
Although your body is unremarkable, you look like a monkey eating pine cones. You and I will take a surname, which means to teach you the surname' Yan'. Yan Zi went to find a wild animal, but it was a Gu Yue. The ancients were old, and the moon was cloudy. Old Yin is uneducated, so it's better to teach you the surname' Yi'. The word Jue goes to the side of the beast, but it is a child line. The son is a man, and the baby is fine, which conforms to the baby theory. Let's teach you your surname' Sun'. "the Monkey King listened to, overjoyed, repeatedly kowtow. "Good, good, good! Today, I know my last name. I hope master will be merciful. Now that I have a surname, I will ask for a name, but it is easy to call. "The patriarch said," We have twelve characters in our door. This is the designated name. You are the tenth generation. " The Monkey King asked, "what about the twelve words? "The founder said," It is this word that "the vast wisdom is as real as nature, ocean, enlightenment and roundness". Give it to you, just as the word' enlightenment'. Give you a French name' Monkey King', okay? "
Because the body is like a lynx, the surname is taken from the body, which is called initiative.
The word lynx is next to the beast and belongs to the beast. The common feature of mammals is wildness. Therefore, we must first remove the side of the beast, that is, remove the wildness of the beast.
Remove the beast from the side, leaving the word, Hu is Gu Yue, that is, Lao Yin, which has no educational function. The so-called old yin can be popularly understood as elderly women, that is, women who have lost their fertility. Of course, she can't be educated. Therefore, the word Hu was discarded.
The traditional Chinese character for the sun is "Sun", with "Zi" on the left and "Iron" on the right. The son is a man, the tie is a newborn baby and the tie is a newborn baby boy.
The main feature of newborn babies is emptiness, mainly ideological emptiness. He knows nothing, nothing, and everything about human beings has not affected him.
This is exactly what I call a "pure child". There is no concept of right and wrong, good and evil. This is the main meaning of "emptiness": nothing, nothing
With a surname, the first name is simpler. According to the ranking, this is only the tenth generation to realize the word "martial arts". Add the word "empty" all the time, and the stone monkey's name will be complete: the Monkey King-Wukong takes empty.
Xu Bodhi is looking for a successor for himself.
At the moment when the stone monkey was born, "I saw two golden beams shooting at the mansion", which was earth-shattering. The Jade Emperor "ordered a clairvoyant eye to look at the Southern Tianmen" and then came to the conclusion that "the following things are all born of the essence of heaven and earth, so there is no difference."
It can alarm the Jade Emperor and naturally let the Buddhist community know. The Jade Emperor is no different, but Xu Bodhi has a good impression. It's too difficult to find a natural emptiness in this world. This stone monkey is made for Bodhi.
Stone monkeys are born empty, which is relative to humans. Human babies are born empty, but babies are born to their parents, and they are born with obstacles.
To illustrate this point, there is a woodcutter in the book.
My life is very difficult. I was raised by my parents until I was eight or nine years old. Unfortunately, my father died and my mother was widowed. No more brothers and sisters, just me, helpless, waiting for you in the morning and evening. Now that my mother is old, I dare not leave. However, the countryside is barren and food and clothing are insufficient. I have to collect two bundles of firewood, pick them from the market, buy pennies and liters of rice, cook and make them myself, arrange some tea and rice, and support my mother, so I can't practice.
This is an obstacle to being born. Buddhists do not support human beings to abandon their responsibilities and become monks alone unless there are real Buddhist reasons. For example, Tang Priest, although he has parents, was separated from his parents at birth, grew up in a temple, and was born to practice like a stone monkey.
Therefore, Wukong is the chosen inheritor of Xubodhi.
The choice of stone monkeys as inheritors also reflects the "equality of all beings" in Buddhism.
How can all beings be equal? Interpretation of Mahayana Sutra, the third work of Diamond Sutra;
All sentient beings and the like, if they are oviparous, viviparous, wet, metaplastic, colored, colorless, thoughtful, mindless, mindless, I will put them into nirvana. If so, there are countless beings, and no one can destroy them.
All sentient beings, no matter what birth mode they come from, no matter whether they have thoughts or not, are among them. Here, there is no hierarchy, and viviparous people are no more advanced than oviparous, wet and metaplastic things.
Stone monkeys are a combination of spawning and metaplasia. "Fairy cells are bred in it. It breaks in one day and produces a stone egg, which is as big as a ball. Because of the wind, it became a stone monkey. "
A Diamond Sutra, which comes from the inquisitive nature of Xubodhi, records the dialogue between Xubodhi and Buddha, and is the Buddha's answer to his doubts.
Therefore, Xu Bodhi is also the most thorough in practice.
Imitate the allusions of five ancestors and six ancestors, and pass the secret method to Wukong. Wukong was born, but whether he can bear the heavy responsibility of inheritance depends on whether he can stand the test, so he has the "wonderful idea of enlightenment and bodhi"
Wukong practiced in Xubodhi, and after seven years, he "learned to be polite and talk, spread scriptures and talk about Taoism, practice calligraphy and burn incense, every day." When you are free, sweep the floor and hoe the garden, plant flowers and repair trees, find firewood to make a fire, and carry water and slurry. "Such a boring spiritual life, Wukong is so happy.
What attracted him? The ancestors went to the altar and preached that Wukong was "scratching his ears and laughing" when he heard this wonderful voice. This is a wise source.
Therefore, the founder gave him a test question to try his initial intention with several Daoism that the world wants to learn. Wukong was unmoved and stuck to his original intention: to learn only the art of immortality.
This persistence is called "good thoughts" in the Diamond Sutra. Humans are so worried because they think too much and they are always changing. Today they want beauty, tomorrow they want money, and the day after tomorrow they want power. When you start thinking, it is inevitable that there will be evil thoughts and you don't know it.
Therefore, the way to practice lies in "cultivating the heart" and being good at protecting the initial heart.
Seven years later, Wukong's initial heart has not changed, which shows that he is not moved by temptation.
Therefore, Xu Bodhi is going to teach Wukong the secret method and let him learn the art of immortality.
Hearing this, the ancestor jumped off the platform with a ruler and pointed at Wukong: "You monkey, what are you waiting for if you don't learn this?" He stepped forward, hit Wukong on the head three times, put his hand behind his back, went in, closed the middle door and left the public.
Scold Wukong in front of everyone, but set a secret language to test whether Wukong can crack it.
Sure enough, everyone complained that Wukong collided with his father, but Wukong understood his father's secret language. "My father hit him three times and taught him to deliberately in the middle of the night; If you walk in with your hands behind your back, close the middle door, teach him to make progress through the back door, and preach to others secretly. "
This plot is Wu Cheng'en's allusion to copying the mantle of five ancestors and six ancestors.
According to the Six Ancestors Tanjing, the Sixth Ancestor Huineng was an illiterate poor child. He joined Master Hong Ren, the fifth ancestor, and was arranged by the fifth ancestor to do odd jobs in the backyard.
One day, Master Hong Ren decided to choose an heir among his disciples, so he asked everyone to write a hymn, and Huineng wrote this famous song:
Bodhi trees have no trees, and the mirror platform is not a platform.
Nothing. Where does it cause dust?
After seeing it, Wuzu publicly criticized Huineng for talking nonsense and knocked Huineng on the head three times. Huineng understood and came to Wuzu's bedroom that night. The fifth ancestor told Huineng about the Diamond Sutra, and Huineng understood it in the middle, completing the inheritance from the fifth ancestor to the sixth ancestor.
Wukong saw through the secret language of his ancestors and came to his bedroom in the middle of the night to accept his secret biography of the secret law of immortality.
Three years later, the founder taught Wukong the method of somersault cloud and seventy-two changes, which enabled Wukong to have the ability to go into the sky and find an opportunity to drive Wukong out of the fairy mountain.
People are easily confused: since Wukong is so valued and received special education, why not stay and continue to train him, but drive him out to disturb the Three Realms?
This should be understood in combination with the previous naming.
Xu Bodhi, who was the first to understand the ethereal, hoped that Wukong could inherit the mantle, but there was still a beast between Wukong and the ethereal. If the animal nature is not removed, there is nothing to say.
How to get rid of animality? Static practice in the mountains can't be eliminated. We must arouse animality, let him experience it in self-release, realize it, and then remove animality by himself.
Therefore, the whole process from making a scene in the Heavenly Palace to being surrendered by the Tathagata under the Five Elements Mountain, and then escorting the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures is the plan of Tathagata and Xubodhi: Tathagata's disciples return to the Buddhist altar after experiencing the Buddhist scriptures; Wukong is a disciple of Xu Bodhi. He experienced Buddhist scriptures, removed animal nature and became a Buddha.
Only by removing the animal-like Wukong can we know what is empty, that is, empty Wukong, let ourselves be empty first, and empty Wukong's territory. As written in the original book: "HarmonyOS system didn't have a surname at the beginning of his reign, and he had to be Wukong to break the stubborn emptiness." .