Have you ever thought of a question: why did Guanyin choose the Monkey King to escort the scriptures?
What is the Monkey King? The Tang Monk has a gentle characterization: you shrewd monkey. You have a lot of previous convictions, stealing peaches, causing havoc in the Palace of Heaven, being naughty and disrespectful, and your skin is itching to die.
You may hold a cigarette and cross your legs to despise: this question is too stupid, of course, because the Monkey King is a formidable martial arts, there is a golden rod, but also 72 changes.
But people who really read the Journey to the West know that the Monkey King's martial arts is actually not so powerful, once or twice on the road to get the scriptures to move times to fight times to move the rescue, these rescuers are collectively referred to as "monkeys moved to the rescue".
So what exactly does Guanyin see in the Monkey King?
Reading the Journey to the West again recently, I seem to have realized.
When we talk about the Monkey King, we always start with the Great Trouble in Heaven, but these are all afterthoughts. We all ignore the beginning of the Monkey King, his initial rise to power.
And it is the process of Sun Wukong's initial rise that truly reflects Sun Wukong's temperament, essence and quality, what is in Sun Wukong's bones, and what makes Sun Wukong truly powerful.
When the Monkey King was born, he was a stone monkey with nothing, no ability, and the capital outside of his ability was equal to zero, not even a full name. However, before the great disturbance in the Palace of Heaven, he became the king of the mountain with territory, men and property, and was known as the Monkey King in the jianghu.
How did he step by step seem to claws and teeth to stand to this position?
The story begins in the Waterfall Cave.
Then, the monkeys were laughing and joking between the discovery of a spectacular and majestic waterfall, see this beautiful scenery, monkeys have to take a selfie picture of the monkey friends circle, a literary youth monkey also read a couple of lines of just wrote a limerick: the flow straight down three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way fell nine days.
But none of the monkeys thought about going in, dared to go in, "one by one, stretching their heads and necks, scratching their ears and cheeks," so dark inside, in case they went in and gave me black eyes to look for the light how to do?
Side of the Monkey King muffled, silently rubbed some magnesium powder on his hands, and then waved his hand to the audience, "swoosh" sound, in the setting sun, he did a set of flexion front flip 360 degrees in the air and then turn around and tumble three and a half weeks to turn and hold the knee, drilled into the cave behind the waterfall.
Sun Wukong from the mouth into the first of its narrow, only to pass the monkey, covered dozens of steps, open up. Inside is a huge luxury mountain view villa, can accommodate thousands of monkeys, pots and pans single beds double beds everything, but also comes with a backyard garden for the old monkeys to cut square dance. A stone at the entrance of the house, inscribed with "Huaguo Mountain blessing, Waterfall Cave Cave days".
The Monkey King found a shelter for the monkeys, and stood out from the monkeys, was chosen as the Monkey King, completing the first step of primitive accumulation.
According to the basic law, the Monkey King has lived in a big villa, has endless bananas, enjoys endless female monkeys, and has become the king himself, so his life as a monkey should be complete.
But the Monkey King didn't just plop down on the couch, smoke a cigarette afterward, and be satisfied. His life and death were not in his own hands, but were manipulated by the King of Hell. What's the point of being a king when you can't be left of center in your own life?
The Monkey King made a second decision that was different from that of ordinary monkeys: to leave the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, to sail across the ocean alone on a small bamboo raft, and to go to a faraway place where there is no poetry to learn from a master.
This is the equivalent of just becoming the boss of a small company, but suddenly deciding to leave the country and become an intern at Facebook.
And the raft was a decade in the making, so much so that when Wukong finally found Facebook CEO Bodhi Laozu, he didn't believe him at all.
Bodhi: Where's the fun in that?
Sun Wukong: Water Curtain Cave, Huaguo Mountain, Aorai Kingdom, East China.
Bodhi Laozu two eyes flames, rebuke: do not billion, a π nonsense.
The Monkey King kowtowed in a panic: I will tell the truth, if I lie, I will grow hair all over my body.
Bodhi old man unforgiving: east victory divine continent from me here separated by two heavy sea, a south alimony, you tree what new bee.
Sun Wukong pondered for a moment, got the hang of it: disciple puff sinking boat, floating young over high, day by day yeah yeah rushed, cheer not to give up with ten years before arriving here.
Bodhi Laozu: rule son can teach also.
The Monkey King was accepted as a disciple.
But the original thought that the success of the teacher will be Pepsi's Sun Wukong but found that the next day is not Coca-Cola, he waited for is not to draw a product map, write code, do marketing programs, exploring the prospects of VR, AR, but "sweeping and hoeing the garden, raising flowers and repairing the tree, looking for firewood, fire, picking up water, transporting syrup".
Doing other monkeys, this time is estimated to be thinking: I am a king of the mountain, you let me do this all day long? I can't stand it.
Sun Wukong? No complaints, the master commanded him to do, did not command him to do, tired of their own waist pinch legs, sleepy leaning against a tree to take a nap.
These were all seen by the teacher, Mr. Bodhi, who poked his head out of the back window of the classroom and peeped at him. In the end, Mr. Bodhi was completely impressed by the Monkey King's perseverance and taught him 72 changes and somersault clouds. At this time, 20 years have passed since the Monkey King left Mount Huaguo.
Sun Wukong new upgrade success, say out is also a Facebook executive, the CEO's side, can find a bigger mountain as the king. But stepping on the somersault clouds, the Monkey King's heart and mind is his old home, the Waterfall Cave, those of his old subordinates.
When he returned to the Waterfall Cave, he saw his monkeys and grandchildren being bullied by the devil king of the Water and Dirty Cave and being taken as slaves, for the first time, the Monkey King was furious. A heel flip to the water dirty cave, first the mixed demon king a cut into two, and eliminate the cave big and small other goblins, to save the robbed little monkeys, and trembling with a yell: also! There! Who! There is still the king's law!
And even more touching is a small detail from the Monkey King's havoc in hell.
He was sitting on the main seat in the Hall of the Moro, scratching his ears and crossing his legs, with the Book of Life and Death in front of him. This was the big moment of his monkey life, he could finally left center his life, he was finally going to be the real king, he saw his name and scratched it out viciously, but he didn't immediately look up to the sky and raise his hands in celebration, he was still searching for something.
What he was looking for was his monkey monkeys. Crossing off the names of all his monkey affiliates in the book of life and death. "Wukong took the book and checked off all the monkey genera and such, but those who had names." Then he swung his golden rod all the way out of hell.
From then on, a name began to circulate in the heavenly realm, the earthly realm, the immortal realm, and the demon realm: the Monkey King, Sun Wukong.
When resting your eyes on this history of the Monkey King's rise to power, do you, like me, feel reacquainted with the Monkey King?
Let's envision this.
If you were standing in front of the Waterfall Cave waterfall, would you have the courage to be the first to dive in?
When you became the Monkey King, would you think about going out again?
Even if you wanted to go out, would you dare when you knew you would need to drift on the sea for ten years?
When you reach your destination after ten years of drifting, and you want to learn the skills, can you stand it if you are asked to serve tea and water and chop wood and wash dishes every day?
When you have learned to be superior, will you still be willing to play with your former friends to support them?
When you are in the highest moment of life, take the book of life and death to cross off their names, your brain will still think of others?
The Monkey King did both. So what exactly does Guanyin see in the Monkey King? What she sees in these.
The first to drill the Waterfall Cave represents courage;
To go out after becoming the Monkey King represents ambition;
To drift for ten years represents perseverance;
To serve tea and water and chop wood and wash dishes without complaining represents endurance;
To return to the Waterfall Cave after practicing all his skills represents gratitude;
The second stroke in the Book of Life and Death represents courage and courage;
The second stroke in the Book of Life and Death represents courage and courage. The second stroke in the book of life and death represents heart.
Courage, ambition, perseverance, patience, gratitude, heart, these are the essence of the Monkey King, the Monkey King's bones, the Monkey King's really powerful place, the real reason why Guanyin chose him.
The fact also confirms the poisonous vision of Guanyin.
It is such a Sun Wukong, will insist on borrowing the banana fan for three consecutive times, and ultimately fan out the fire of the Flame Mountain, will be in the three fights, even if the Tang monk read the spell, and even use the means of severing the relationship between master and disciple to stop, but still can't shake the determination of his eradication of demons to protect the master, will be the only in the whole process of the scriptures, in the hundred thousand urinary urgency at a critical moment always play a role in the smooth protection of the Tang monk to obtain the true scriptures, and successfully! The Longevity Monk was able to obtain the scriptures, and eventually became the Buddha.
The Monkey King reminds me of a class of people, and a profession, which is arguably China's profession of the year in 2016: the entrepreneur.
What is an entrepreneur?
The entrepreneur is to dare to take the road that others dare not take, dare to be the first to drill into the waterfall cave;
The entrepreneur is to always go to break into the always ambitious, even if you have been the king of the mountain;
The entrepreneur is to go over the mountains and mountains of long-distance trekking, the road and then the farther also have no fear;
The entrepreneur is to endure loneliness and triviality, only to reach the goal;
The entrepreneur is to endure loneliness, and triviality, only to reach the goal;<
The entrepreneur is a true leader, the heart loaded with the world, but also always loaded with their partners to struggle together.
I think that every good entrepreneur has a Monkey King living in his heart. Some of them have just popped out of the stone, some have just discovered the Waterfall Cave, some are drifting on a raft, some are apprenticing with Bodhi Laozu, some have already become the King of the Mountain, and some have already become the Monkey King, but they will always have the same goal: to become the Buddha of Victory.
If we were to make a list of all the honorable professions in the world, there would be the doctor who saves lives, the teacher who teaches and educates, but the entrepreneur should have his place.
Maybe they are not as pervasive as doctors and teachers, but the most remarkable thing about them is that each one of them is trying to use their own flesh, exploring a possibility, looking for an answer to the question, that is: how wonderful life can be.
Written by Wang Zuozhongrui