Why is the Monkey King stupid enough to stick his finger on the column? What did the Tathagata do in his palm?

The Monkey King will regard Tathagata's finger as a zenith pillar, probably because the Monkey King has only heard of the existence of zenith pillar, but has never seen a real zenith pillar. Although the Monkey King has great powers, he actually has little knowledge. Since his birth, he has only been in Huaguo Mountain and Bodhi Bodhi Heaven, so he has definitely never seen a real zenith pillar.

Five hundred years ago, the Monkey King made a scene in the heaven, because the heaven deceived him and almost overturned it. No one in heaven is his opponent. The Jade Emperor was very helpless, so he could only find the Tathagata Buddha and ask him to stop the Monkey King. When the Tathagata met the Monkey King, he held out his right hand and said to the Monkey King, "If you can dig out the palm of my hand, I will let the Jade Emperor give you the Hall of the Lingxiao."

Hearing this, the Monkey King thought to himself, "I can do somersaults, and I have to travel thousands of miles. How big is the palm? " So the Monkey King agreed to the Tathagata, and immediately walked. After several somersaults, he saw five pillars, which he thought were zenith pillars supporting the sky. He was afraid that the Tathagata Buddha would not admit it, so he wrote a few words on five pillars and sprinkled a bubble of urine. But unexpectedly, those five pillars are five fingers of the Tathagata.

The Monkey King can recognize Tathagata's finger as a zenith pillar, because he doesn't know the real zenith pillar at all. Perhaps the Tathagata Buddha used some smoke screen, so the Monkey King had the illusion that this pillar was the zenith pillar. In this way, our fearless monkey brother stayed at the foot of Wuzhishan for 500 years, and finally all his rage and edges were crushed by Wuzhishan.