Chapter 42 Westward Journey

"Journey to the West" is a strange book, full of allegories. If you look at it from a different angle, you can get different things. For example, the combination of Zhengxituan. Sun Wukong and Longma together are like a horse.Sun Wukong is a lively elf, with hundreds of billions of hairs that change infinitely, and a somersault for thousands of miles, which represents the ever-changing imagination of human beings. He is still here at this moment, and he has traveled to the world in the next moment, and it is difficult to find his trace. . His unique weapon, originally the iron rod of Dinghaishenzhen, is even more playful, it can be big or small, long or short, similar to human male sexual organs.In Taoist practice, the place below the abdomen is called the bottom of the sea, and the so-called place of returning to the root and returning to life is the sea-fixing needle. It goes without saying what it is.

Sun Wukong and Longma represent the Consciousness God in Taoist practice, while Tang Sanzang represents the Primordial Spirit.This is somewhat similar to the distinction between conscious and subconscious in modern psychology.We usually work in camps and labors, and every thought and thought that we devote ourselves to in order to survive is all done by the consciousness of God.But the primordial spirit is like the soul, quietly lurking in the deepest part of the soul, and I and other mortals can never touch it.Only when the consciousness is subdued, without the mind, horse, and heart, can we enter the strange world of the primordial spirit and feel the state of meditation described by the masters of Buddhism and Taoism.

Our nerves are like a bottomless pool of water, every thought can cause ripples, only after all thoughts are eliminated, the pool of water can return to clarity, reflecting the truth of existence.Only when the consciousness retreats, the primordial spirit can come out and take charge. Knowing the spirit and primordial spirit, both are indispensable, because when it comes to coping with this world, Monkey King is also needed to beg for alms and fight monsters and dragon horses. Tang Sanzang is just sitting back and enjoying the success, but the final success or failure is everyone's.Knowing the soul and primordial spirit are two in one.

Sun Wukong and Longma's Xinyuanyima represent the Taoist consciousness of God, and Tang Sanzang represents the muddled, pure and pure Yuanshen. Now there is only Zhu Bajie who never stops making mistakes and constantly shows the inferiority of human beings.And the Drifting Monk Wujing who worked hard, and all the burdens fell on him. The method of Taoist practice is also called the cultivation of life and soul. The so-called nature is hidden in the eyes, which belongs to Yang fire; Friends who have never been involved in Taoism, seeing such a description, naturally feel that it is abstract and difficult to understand. In fact, in other words, sex is human nature, our spirit; destiny is our sexual ability.Only through spiritual exercise can the sexual energy be transformed into spiritual power in various mysterious ways, which is called refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform spirit, and refining spirit to return emptiness.

Zhu Bajie represents sex, so this gentleman is lazy and shows the weakness of human nature, while Drifting represents fate and the ability of sex. Nature is fire, life is water.So the Drifting Monk lives at the bottom of the Liusha River, and to recover the Drifting Monk, he must rely on the power of Zhu Bajie and use his sex to control his life. If you don't cultivate your nature, how can you not be enslaved by sexual desire. So the monkey king is called Wukong, because in terms of Buddhism and Taoism, everything he sees and feels is empty; the sand monk Wujing, because the sexual ability is a pure and pure thing, it is said that people are born along the way, and become immortals when they go back.

The Western Mission went to the west to learn scriptures, and the west belongs to gold, which coincides with the meaning of Taoism's golden elixir.There are many dangers along the way, alluding to the dangers of Taoist alchemy. For example, Tang Seng drank the water from the Zimu River, and his abdomen defecated. Fire, due south is Wu, and Wu is the head, so it guards the Niwan Palace on the head, its energy is self-transforming, and the metaphor is wonderful, which is amazing. "Journey to the West" is a wonderful book written by Buddhists outside and Taoism inside. It shows us the complexity of human nature. Therefore, if we can defeat ourselves, we can defeat the world and obtain the precious scriptures hidden in Daleiyin Temple.