Chapter 82: The Stone Monkey's Quest for the Truth

"The first time the stone monkey was born

The poem says: Chaos is not divided into heaven and earth, and no one sees it. Since Pangu broke Hongmeng, it has opened up from Ziqing to distinguish turbidity.

Covering the masses of beings to look up to benevolence, inventing all things to be good. If you want to know the Yuan Gong of the Creation Society, you must see the stone monkey seeking the Tao.

It is said that in the past, when the two instruments were not divided, they were unformed, the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon were not formed, like a chicken, chaotic and yellow.

I don't know how many years have passed, and a god has been born in the chaos, called Pangu. When Pangu first opened his eyes, he saw that the surroundings were hazy and dim, so he pulled out his teeth and turned into a divine axe, splitting the chaos and opening up a piece of heaven and earth.

When the heavens and the earth are opened, the light and clear things float on them to form the heavens, and the heavy and turbid things sink to form the earth. At the beginning of the world, the world was uncertain, sometimes rising and sometimes sinking, Pangu was worried that the heaven and the earth coincided, so he stood in it, stepped on the earth, and supported the sky with his hands, so as not to let the heaven and earth coincide.

The heavens are getting higher every day, the earth is thickening every day, and Pangu is also getting taller.

And so after another 18,000 years, the heavens became extremely high and the earth became extremely thick, and there was no possibility of overlapping.

Pangu let go of his hand, and the man fell down with him, because his body was worn out too much, and he never got up again.

After Pangu died, his limbs turned into four poles of heaven, five bodies into mountains, blood into rivers, muscles into geography, muscles into soil, hair into stars, fur into plants and trees, teeth and bones into gold and stone, essence into pearls, sweat into rain, breath into wind and clouds, sound into thunder, left eye into sun, left eye into moon.

Since then, heaven and earth have life, exuding vitality, and no longer dead silence.

After another 108,000 years, there are spiritual things in all things that sense the qi of heaven and earth, and they are born for the ancient gods, called Nuwa, Gonggong, Zhurong, Xiangliu, Mengzhang, and Candle Dragon......"

Seeing the beginning, there must be some people who know what Gongliang is writing?

That's right, it's Journey to the West.

But he didn't copy it, and the previous one was integrated into the ancient Chinese myths of Pangu opening the sky, Nuwa creating people and Nuwa mending the sky, and the origin of heaven and earth and the human race was clearly and transparently.

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Another 18,000 years, Gonggong and Zhurong fought for the emperor, the anger touched the mountain of Zhouzhou, the heavenly pillars were broken, the four poles were wasted, the sky was tilted to the northwest, the sun, moon and stars were in place there, the earth sank to the southeast, and the water of hundreds of rivers gathered there. The human race suffered from the water and fled to the mountains, and the beasts and birds took the opportunity to eat it.

Nuwa couldn't bear the suffering of the human race, so she refined the five-colored stone to make up for the sky, and re-established the four poles.

Later generations divided the world into four poles, saying that the East Sheng Shenzhou, the West Niuhe Continent, the South Ganbu Continent, and the North Julu Continent.

Dongsheng Shenzhou has a land overseas, called Aolai Country. The country is close to the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea, which is called Huaguo Mountain.

This mountain is the ancestral vein of the ten continents, the dragon of the three islands, since the opening of the turbidity and standing, Hongmeng after the judgment.

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On the top of that mountain, there is a fairy stone, which was left by Nuwa's refining stone to mend the sky.

Its stone is three feet six feet five inches high, and has two feet and four feet around the circle. Three zhang six feet five inches high, according to the three hundred and sixty-five degrees of the week, two zhang four feet around the circle, according to the political calendar twenty-four qi.

There are nine holes and eight holes, according to the nine palace gossip. There are no trees on all sides to shade it, and there are Zhilan on the left and right.

Since the opening of the cover, every innocent show, the day and the moon, feel for a long time, then have the meaning of well-informed. Inner breeding immortals. One day bursts, laying a stone egg, as big as a round ball. Because he saw the wind, he turned into a stone monkey. The facial features are complete, and the limbs are complete. So he learned to crawl and walk, and worshiped the Quartet. Eyes and two golden rays of light, shooting at the ...... of the Dou Mansion"

When I got here, and then crossed the sea to seek the Tao, it was the content in Journey to the West, and Gongliang didn't have to bother to copy it all.

But in the back, there was no way to copy it, so he pulled the head and tail, changed his face, and integrated into the legend of Wukong, and the legend of the god of heaven and earth and the ancient god ape that existed in this world, and the title of his book is not called Journey to the West, but the stone monkey seeking Taoism.

The name was chosen because there is no Buddhism in this world, or Buddhism has not yet been born.

As we all know, Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the son of the Kapilavi prince who was controlled by the Shakyamuni clan in ancient Nepal.

There is a large number of ancient Indian Brahmin traditions in Buddhism, but the Brahmins believe in the caste system, just like the ancient Chinese aristocracy, the royal nobles and the children of the family are high, and the poor and poor are extremely lowly. It's just that the poor and poor people in ancient China still had the opportunity to make their status noble through various channels. But in the Brahmin caste system, once you have a lowly surname, whether it is you or your family, or even your children and grandchildren, you will be inferior to others for eternity.

As the saying goes, "where there is oppression, there is resistance", so there is the idea of equality of all beings, which is opposed to Brahmanism.

The era in which Sakyamuni lived was the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms competing for hegemony, and thinking about the Warring States and the Three Kingdoms in ancient China, the tragic scene can be imagined.

The Kapila Guardians controlled by the Shakya clan belonged to the Kansara State, and because they were weak, they were often threatened by the invasion of their strong neighbors, and their position was very fragile.

Shakyamuni lost his mother at a young age, so he had a strong introspective tendency and keen sensibility when he was young, as a prince of a declining tribe, in the face of the bleak prospects of the nation, to see through the world, he decided to become a monk and sand man, shaving the dervishes and traveling south, to the country of Magadha, the center of the new culture of ancient India, where he visited famous teachers, learned a lot of knowledge, and finally integrated and comprehended, realized the truth, and opened up a thought and doctrine belonging to the Buddha.

Buddhism, like Taoism, was founded by later generations of believers.

If you study it, you will find that there are many shadows of Brahmanism in ancient Buddhism.

But modern Buddhism is a little different, especially Chinese Zen Buddhism, it can be said that it is rare to see the shadow of Brahmanism, it should be said that Zen Buddhism is a doctrine re-established by integrating the ideas of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

It is generally believed that Vedism is the precursor of Brahmanism.

Now there is also ancient Vedism in the west of this world, but everything in this world is plausible with Gongliang's previous life, and he doesn't know if there will be Buddhism in the end.

But even without Buddhism, there should be other sects. Any kind of thing, as long as it is oppressed to the extreme, will rebound, no exceptions.

This is the case with many peasant uprisings in the historical records of Gongliang's previous life.

Of course, these are all off-topic.

After Gongliang finished writing, he began to write again. The first part of the stone monkey record removes the chapters of myths such as Pangu Kaitian, and the back is actually exactly the same as Journey to the West, he just needs to copy it, it is very easy to write, and it is very fast to write. But later, when the stone monkey ascended the throne and was known as the "Monkey King", he was worried about life and death, and when he wanted to go out to seek the Tao and learn the method of immortality, he began to be different.

No matter how difficult the world is, it is the same as learning the Tao, and what is too easy to get is often not cherished.

As a result, Gongliang set up all kinds of obstacles on its way to seek the Tao.

For example, when crossing the sea, the wind and rain are combined, and the sea beasts are coming. After crossing the sea after nine deaths, he entered the human world at first glance, and was almost fascinated by prosperity. Shang Hao Dao was firm, moved forward wholeheartedly, and finally arrived in the three-inch mountain and worshiped the famous teacher.

At this point, in addition to adding more demons and monsters in the middle and creating some hardships for the stone monkey to seek the Tao, the other content is similar to Journey to the West, so Gongliang wrote it quickly, but he wrote a bunch of it in half a day.

Mi Gu saw that Baba didn't go out to play, lying on the table and writing those annoying things, so he flew over curiously and asked, "Baba, what are you writing?"

The most annoying thing about this little thing is writing, if it wasn't for Gongliang forcing her, it is estimated that she will not be able to write Dongtu characters now.

When Gongliang heard her words, he put down his pen, stretched and said, "Dad is writing a story." ”

Mi Gu suddenly became interested, got into Baba Baba's arms, blinked his big eyes, and asked innocently: "Baba, what kind of story have you written?

Gongliang rolled his eyes, and said in his heart: Comparing what I wrote with the story you told, it seems that I am not up to standard.

Looking down and seeing the little guy's expectant look, Gongliang paused writing the book and said: "Dad wrote the story of a monkey, saying that in ancient times, the heavens and the earth were still chaotic, there was no sun, moon and stars, no mountains and rivers......

Gongliang told the little guy about what he wrote, but the ordinary condensed version is not as complicated as what is written in the book.

Yuan Lun was sleeping on the ground, but after listening to it, he immediately ran to it and listened.

Xiao Xiangxiang also poked her head out from between its hairs and listened carefully.

The little guy in Migu lay in the warm embrace of Baba, motionless, with big eyes open, and listened seriously.