Myriad Worlds Begin with Douluo

Chapter 745 Detailed Explanation of Journey to the West ([-])

Tang San looked at the two girls, and continued: "After the stone monkey became the Monkey King, he played with the monkeys every day and spent three to five hundred years."

Neither woman asked why a monkey could live for 500 years.

After all, there's something special about jumping out of a rock, right?
"Wang Fan accelerated this period of time. Not long after the stone monkey became the monkey king, he directly let an old ape die in front of him, and he had the idea of ​​letting the stone monkey go out to learn art."

"Think about it carefully, although there is logic, it gave the Monkey King a reason to go out to study art."

"However, some are too crude."

"A monkey that has just been born is upright and young, it is in the initial stage like a young leaf, and the flowers and fruits on the Huaguo Mountain are lush, there is food and drink, and it doesn't think about it at all."

"Only after living for many years, that is, three to five hundred years, and thinking about our own existence, will we think about the beauty."

"That is, the development of Dao Xin."

Ning Rongrong said with a smile: "The monkey is obviously enlightened, but you are said to be full by you, third brother."

But Zhu Zhuqing understood, and said: "Intelligent creatures, that's how it is, full of warmth and thoughtfulness."

Tang San patted Zhu Zhuqing's head, and said: "Fu Nuan Si **, although it is a derogatory sentence, it also properly shows the purpose of intelligent creatures."

"The stone monkey has lived for so many years, and its unchanging life has caused it to fall into a misunderstanding of life. If no one mentions it, it may really turn into a handful of dust."

"It is indeed because of this that it is a coincidence that there is an ape mentioning it."

"It's really reminiscent of a conspiracy theory."

"The Tongbei ape that provides a new target for the stone monkey is a pawn of Buddhism in the conspiracy theory, but that Journey to the West has legends of immortals and gods. One or two, maybe there is no such possibility.”

In fact, the so-called conspiracy theory only magnifies some unreasonable aspects of the original Journey to the West to make people feel that there is a conspiracy.

And the Journey to the West written by Wang Fan showed that it was a conspiracy from the very beginning.

On the contrary, there is some aboveboard flavor in it.

Ning Rongrong was thoughtful: "As long as people think too much about all kinds of unreasonable things, they will make up a lot of things that they think are reasonable?"

Tang San said: "This is also the advantage of human beings, but ordinary people tend to worry too much, so they make up so many problems in their brains. And it still has nothing to do with their own lives."

Zhu Zhuqing also thought about it secretly for a while, and then asked: "Why is this so?"

Tang San smiled and said: "Perhaps, it is to satisfy the inner soul."

"Just like Sakyamuni in my Xiantai, he once taught his disciples this way: 'The enlightened one is not sad or happy because of the disturbance of external objects, only then is the right enlightenment.'"

"Humans, without enlightenment, cannot reach our realm. They are easily dominated by emotions of joys and sorrows. They may go astray or self-destruct due to great joy and sorrow."

"Of course, the vast majority of people can still adjust their mentality. Those who are angry, sad, and happy because of their feelings are relatively rare in the normal world."

"The so-called brain supplement conspiracy is to express one's feelings, let others accept them, feel that they are right, and gain a kind of joy in their hearts."

"Generally speaking, it is still spiritual satisfaction. And in a sense, this is also a kind of spiritual practice."

Both women nodded, thinking it made sense.

Isn't it precisely because of this that people appear perfect?

If someone is perfect, I am afraid that he has already transcended into [truth].

Afterwards, the two women continued to listen to Tang San's story about Journey to the West written by Wang Fan.

In the Journey to the West he wrote, after the stone monkey went out to sea, he was blessed by the Dragon King, and the weather was smooth, and he arrived in Nanfangbuzhou safely.

This paragraph, in fact, the whole taste has changed.

Although in the original book, there are not many descriptions about the stone monkey in Nanfang Buzhou, there is only a short paragraph——

Swaying, crossing the state and government, in the dust of the city, learning the etiquette and words of others.Meal at night and stay at night, visit the sacred way of Buddha and fairy with one heart, and find a way of immortality.Seeing that everyone in the world is for fame and fortune, and no one is for life.The Monkey King visited the Immortal Dao, but he had no chance to meet him.I lived in Nanbuzhou, crossed the Great Wall, and visited small counties. I didn't realize it for more than eight or nine years.

That is to say, the stone monkey has lived in Nanfang Buzhou for eight or nine years. He has been to various places, and he has learned all kinds of life skills and dealing with people in the past eight or nine years.

There is even an awareness of seeing through life.

Like the hymn in the narration—

When will the fight for fame and fortune stop?Waking up early and sleeping late is not free!
Riding a donkey and mule thinking of a steed, the official residence and the prime minister met the prince.

Just worry about food, food and hard work, so why don't Yan Jun take the hook?

No one is willing to look back!

It is clearly written, and the stone monkey has seen through these things in Nanfang Buzhou, and has not been confused by the prosperous surface.

This is a process of transforming from a monkey into a "half-human, half-monkey", and even the consciousness is higher than that of ordinary human beings.

In the future, the embodiment of human sophistication on the westbound road, the experience of Nanfang Buzhou is what the stone monkey learned after traveling.

Tang San said: "This is what is lacking in the chapters written by Wang Fan at present. Let such an important paragraph be deleted directly, and only keep 'learning from others, learning from others', and then another sentence, 'I lament that there is no real person, so I am going to leave it alone. Depart from the West Sea'. Some of the flavors have completely changed."

"Moreover, before the stone monkey went to Lingtai, he wrote: 'The ancestor felt that the fate had come, so he arranged for a fairy boy to become a woodcutter to guide him'."

"It's completely superfluous."

"Even if you want to write about conspiracies and arrangements, you don't need to write in such detail, it's enough to leave people in suspense."

"So many words make people feel aesthetically tired."

"If it's in vernacular, it doesn't matter if you add so much. If the explanation is clearer, readers can understand it."

"However, such a description in an ancient vernacular is superfluous."

Ning Rongrong also understood that writing like Wang Fan made it feel nondescript.

However, although most of the human beings in this world have also been exposed to classical Chinese, if they are not immersed in it, they will not see any problems.

But Zhu Zhuqing fell beside Tang San, looking at Tang San's hands with his spiritual eyes, the description about the woodcutter——

The woodcutter said: "I have lived a miserable life. I have been raised by my parents since I was a child until I was eight or nine years old. I didn't know about human affairs. Unfortunately, my father died and my mother was a widow. I have no brothers and sisters. I am alone. I have no choice but to serve me sooner or later. Now my mother is old. However, the countryside is barren and there is not enough food and clothing, so I had to chop two bundles of firewood and carry them among the dust in the market, buy a few pennies, buy a few liters of rice, cook for myself, arrange some tea and rice for the elderly mother , so you can’t practice.”

This makes people feel that this is a filial child who doesn't even care about his practice in order to take care of his parents at home.

I will not abandon my family to practice in order to live forever.

Of course, everyone has their own opinion on this point.

Tang San saw Zhu Zhuqing fascinated, and asked: "Who do you think this woodcutter is? Or, is it really sent by Patriarch Bodhi?"

Zhu Zhuqing thought for a while, and said: "The stone monkey in the book is eager to seek the truth. Whenever he goes to a mountain forest that looks like a fairy, he should visit it. Even if there is no woodcutter to point him out, he should go up the mountain to have a look."

Ning Rongrong also echoed: "That's right, I thought so too. If such a world really existed, it would be superfluous to arrange woodcutters. After all, according to conspiracy theory, as long as monkeys go up the mountain, they will definitely see the Three Star Cave." .”

"The existence of the woodcutter is probably just passing by."

Tang San smiled without saying a word, not fully answering.

In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of the author who wrote Journey to the West, that is, Wu Chengen, it can be regarded as a tribute.

Because the life experience of the woodcutter is almost exactly the same as the early experience of the ancient Zen master and sixth patriarch Huineng.

Moreover, before the Bodhi Patriarch taught Sun Wukong his true skills, after knocking on Sun Wukong three times, he walked inside with his hands behind his back, closed the middle door, and left the public behind.

This passage is also a tribute.

The plot of this preaching is not much different from the story of the five ancestors of Zen Buddhism passing on the mantle to the sixth ancestor.

The only difference may be that the "Chan stick" of the fifth ancestor of Zen has become the "ruler" in the hands of Subhuti.

The process of Sun Wukong's learning is in the Fangcun Mountain of Lingtai, the three-star cave in the oblique moon.

These two place names both mean heart.

The square inch of the Lingtai is where the heart is; the slanting moon and three stars are even more oblique hooks, plus three points, clearly saying that it is a word "heart".

Coupled with the existence of Patriarch Subhuti, it is easy to think of a poem.

"There is no tree in Bodhi, and the mirror is not a stage. Originally there is nothing, where can it cause dust."

Perhaps, the process of Monkey King learning art is just a dream, what he learned in his heart.

The ability to learn is just that there is a certain existence, let it have a dream, and make a plan for the various scriptures that I have learned in Nanfang Buzhou.

That is the so-called one-knowledge, a hundred-knowledge.

This is not nonsense, Sun Wukong, who is eager to seek the Tao, will definitely look for all kinds of books, allusions, Taoist scriptures, etc. when he is in Nanbubuzhou.

In Xiniu Hezhou, I will definitely go to some temples to find scriptures.

For this reason, in his dream, there appeared a Patriarch Subhuti who integrated the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

The so-called Subhuti may be another mind.

This is Tang San's own understanding, and because of this, he has a complete induction on himself.

The infinite multiverse in Sendai, no matter how it changes, is within Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Others, perhaps manifested differently.

Magic, innumerable, chakra, vitality, battle qi, etc., no matter how ever-changing such practice systems are, they can all be attributed to Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

Confucianism is speech and sentient beings.

Tao and Buddha are thoughts and experiences.

Various systems have different forms, a hundred flowers bloom, and thousands of families dance, but the inner thoughts are unified.

(End of this chapter)