The Bodhisattva, the king of earth treasure, is the first of the four Buddhas (the other three are Guanyin, Manjusri and Pu Xian), and of course we know what it is. But he was more aware of the truth behind this matter, and it was even more difficult to say, so he shirked it, suggesting that this matter was still found. See what the Tathagata says. Tathagata smiled and said, "You are so powerful that you can only read Sundays, but you can't know everything about Sundays, and you can't know all kinds of Sundays." The Bodhisattva asked about the kind of Sunday, and the Tathagata said, "There are five immortals on Sunday, who are the gods and ghosts of heaven and earth; There are five kinds of insects, namely Mao Yukun. This fellow is not heaven, earth, god, man, ghost, scale, hair, feather or Kun. There are four monkeys in the world, which do not belong to ten categories. " "Who are those four monkeys?" The bodhisattva asked. For example, "The first one is Ling Ming boulder, who knows the changes, weather and places, and changes the stars.
The second is the red horse monkey, who knows yin and yang, knows people, is good at going in and out, and avoids death and prolongs life. The third is the armless ape, taking the sun and the moon, shrinking the mountain of money, distinguishing the blame, and being silent. The fourth is Liu Er's macaque, who is good at listening and understanding. These four monkeys do not belong to ten categories, nor can they reach the name of two rooms. I think Wukong is a monkey named Liu Er. If this monkey stands in one place, it can know things thousands of miles away, and so can ordinary people. Therefore, I am good at listening, observing reason, and knowing the past and the future. Liu Er's macaque is also a homonym of the real Wukong. "On the surface, it sounds like the Tathagata makes sense. It turns out that Liu Er's macaque is doing something. But think deeply, where did this Liu Er macaque come from? Why do you know that Tang Priest and the Monkey King are not in harmony, so you take the opportunity to start work. There are no coincidences in this world, only human wishes. If you don't say it, there must be a skeleton in my closet.
So what's the secret? Why did Tathagata lie? Why do you know the truth but don't want to say it? Second, it started a long time ago. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dongtu Datang has always regarded Li's ancestor Taoism as the state religion. Tathagata Buddhism wanted to spread Buddhism to the Tang Dynasty a long time ago, but there was no good opportunity and suitable candidate. Until the chaos in the Heavenly Palace, the Taoist tycoon Jade Emperor Taibai Venus collected the Monkey King for nothing, and the Tathagata subdued the Monkey King on the condition of spreading Buddha to the Tang Dynasty. Then there is the question of team learning. Although there are many people in Tathagata's hands, no one wants to do this hard work. Tathagata only found the most incompetent disciple Jin as the head, and promised him that he would become a Buddha after the completion of this project, and Jin agreed. But this golden cicada (hereinafter referred to as Tang Priest) was so weak that she had to find the Monkey King as an assistant. Fearing that Wukong was out of control, he asked Zhu Bangjin Chan to manage the Monkey King, and finally asked Sha Wujing to do some chores.
But along the way, the Tang Priest was too incompetent to suppress the Monkey King, all kinds of torture, and the pig teammate Wuneng had to help him from time to time, so the honest Sha Wujing dared not speak. The Monkey King became a minority in the Buddhist scriptures, and his heart was extremely depressed. He knew that Tang Priest was incompetent, but he was Tathagata and didn't dare to offend. So on the way to learn from the scriptures, I turned against Tang Priest several times. Before Liu Er's intervention, the two sides were at loggerheads, basically to the point of having you without me. Sanzang just stopped. "There is nothing to say," he said. "I don't want you to follow me. Go home! " Monkey bowed down in pain and said, "Master, why did you drive me away?" "You Po Hou," Sanzang said, "are so good that you don't study classics. I killed those two thieves on the hillside yesterday. I blame you for being heartless. When I arrived at the old man's house very late, Monta allowed me to spend the night, and Monta opened the back door to let me escape. Although his son is corrupt, it has nothing to do with me, but he should not be the first to accuse him, killing many people, damaging many lives and hurting the sum of heaven and earth.
I have advised you many times, but there is no good idea. What do I want you to do? Let's go, let's go. So as not to read the truth again! Monkey was afraid and said, "Don't think, don't think! I will go too! " He left, somersaulted all the way, disappeared without a trace, and then disappeared. The Monkey King first went to the South China Sea to find Guanyin Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva understood what the situation was, but dared not deal with it. She can only deal with it coldly, hold it down first, and then there is a big case at this end. Third, why did the Monkey King kill Liu Er's macaque? Who is Liu Er's macaque? Now the truth is out. Because of the Monkey King's lively personality, he is not a person at all with Tang Priest. Under the long-term torture and oppression of Tang Priest, demons broke out, which is what we often say: schizophrenia and split personality. Because Wukong is not human, he directly split into two monkeys.
A monkey said: You should help the Tang Priest learn from the scriptures and become a Buddha. This is the right way. A monkey said: You are the great sage of monkeys, and there are three samsaras in the world. Who have you been afraid of? Two little people fought in the monkey's heart, and finally went crazy. The two monkeys fought. First, Guanyin knows about it, so she can't say it, because both sides are not easy to offend. Besides, the Tang Priest bullied others first. I listened carefully in the middle, but I didn't dare to say that the monkey was crazy, not to make trouble for myself. Think about it, too. You told a madman that you were crazy, didn't you make trouble? Only put things off to the Tathagata. Finally, Tathagata knew that disciple Tang Yan was the first to blame, but at this time, he had to wake up and not tell the truth to embarrass Wukong. So, Tathagata secretly made meritorious deeds for Wukong to wake him up, and then half-truthfully told the result: 62 macaques are good at listening to sounds, can observe reason, and know the past and know the future.
These four monkeys do not belong to ten categories, nor can they reach the name of two rooms. I think the fake Wukong is also real. If this monkey stands in one place, it can know things thousands of miles away, and so can ordinary people. Therefore, I am good at listening, observing reason, and knowing the past and the future. Liu Er's macaque is also a homonym of the real Wukong. Wukong suddenly woke up and found his demons out of the body. He quickly ignored the Tathagata's advice and killed his demons with a stick. Wukong defeated his demons and never quarreled with Tang Priest again. His cognition has improved and he understands better: this Buddhist journey to the west is a game of Tathagata, paving the way for the spread of Buddhism to the east. Learning from the scriptures is also an opportunity for the golden cicada to become a Buddha. Only by helping the golden cicada can we help ourselves. And he himself is just a pawn in the overall situation.