Chapter 4 Apprenticeship to Taishang Laojun
The Monkey King wandered around the door of the Three-Star Cave of the Oblique Moon for a while, but he still didn't dare to knock on the door, for fear that the gods in the door would not look down on him and be turned away.
I'm even more afraid that this cave house is just an ordinary family, and I am happy in vain, and I hesitate in my heart.
So he jumped on the top of the pine branch, picked some pine nuts to eat, and thought that he would knock on the door again later.
The Monkey King was eating happily, and when he heard a "squeak", the door of the cave opened, and out of it came a fairy child, who looked strange, with his beard curled up, and his wide robe went with the wind.
When the Monkey King saw this, he hurriedly jumped off the pine tree, raised his hand and said, "Xiantong, I am a disciple who has come to visit the Immortal Dao, and please introduce me." ”
"There really is a visitor, you come in with me, Master already knows that you are coming. Xian Dao smiled and led the Monkey King into the cave.
The Monkey King straightened his clothes, followed the fairy child into the door, and entered the depths of the cave. I saw layers of Qionglou Yuyu, a series of Zhumen jade rings, countless quiet rooms and secluded residences, endless wonders of Sendai, to the top of the platform, only to see Taishang Laojun sitting on the high platform, standing on both sides are the little immortals who have cultivated for many years.
"Master, the disciple has seen the salute. The Monkey King hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.
The patriarch said: "Where are you from, and say your name, it's not too late to worship." ”
The Monkey King said: "Disciple Dongsheng Shenzhou Aolai Guohua Guo Shan Shui Curtain Cave Clan. ”
The patriarch shouted: "Get out! He was originally a deceitful and deceitful person, what kind of Dao fruit is cultivated there!"
The Monkey King hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The disciple is honest and has no deceit. ”
The patriarch said: "Since you are honest, how can you say that Dongsheng Shenzhou? From Huaguo Mountain to me, separated by two major seas, a southern Ganbu Continent, how can you get this?"
The Monkey King kowtowed and said, "The disciple has been floating across the ocean and traveling to the realm, and it has been more than ten years before he has visited here. ”
The patriarch said: "Since it is a trek through mountains and rivers, it can be regarded as a fate, and it is just that." What's your last name?"
The Monkey King said, "I don't have a surname. If anyone scolds me, I will not be annoyed, and if they beat me, I will not be angry, but just a courtesy. He has no surname in his life. ”
When the patriarch heard this, he secretly thought in his heart that with the Monkey King's current surname, it was difficult to use it, so he had to force his wild surname out, and said, "It's not this surname." What were your parents' last names?"
The Monkey King said, "I have no parents either. ”
The patriarch said, "I don't have parents, I want to be born on a tree?"
The Monkey King said, "Although I am not born of a tree, I am born in a stone. I only remember that there was a fairy stone on Huaguo Mountain, and after a few yuans, I was born. ”
The patriarch said, "Since it was born of stone, how can you give birth to a monkey?"
The Monkey King said: "I was on the top of the mountain, I sucked the essence of the moon, and when I was transformed that year, a monkey passed by, and I took his appearance and incarnated into the body. ”
Taishang Laojun pinched his fingers, understood the cause and effect, knew that this monkey was not shallow, and secretly rejoiced: "This is said, but it is generated by heaven and earth." Get up and walk and I'll see. ”
The Monkey King jumped up and walked twice. Taishang Laojun smiled: "Although your body is ugly, you are like a pine cone eater. I'll take a surname on you, meaning to teach you the surname '猢'. The word went to a beast, but it was the ancient moon. The ancients, the old, the moon, the yin. Lao Yin can't be cultivated, so it's good to teach your surname 'Tan'. The word Tanuki went to the beast, but it is a subline. The son is also a son, and the child is a child, and the child is also a baby. It is in line with the essence of the baby. Teach you the surname 'Sun'. ”
When the monkey king heard this, he was full of joy, and kowtowed upwards and said, "Good! Since you have a surname, you can beg for a name, but it is easy to call. ”
Taishang Laojun thought in his heart, after a thousand years, Sun Wukong will break into a catastrophe, and only by escaping into Buddhism can he avoid the catastrophe. If you take a Taoist name, when you enter the Buddha's teachings, you still need someone else to change it again, wasting my compassion for giving a name, it is better to take one directly from Buddhism, and save a lot of trouble.
Taishang Laojun thought about it in his heart, and decided to take a Buddhist name, that year, out of the letter pass for 5,000 years, turned Hu into a Buddha, from the letter to Kunlun, unified Huayi belongs to the Taoist gate, and also left the word for the disciples of Buddhism, saying: "There are twelve words in my door, assigned to the name, to you are the tenth generation of the disciple." ”
The Monkey King said, "Those twelve words?"
Taishang Laojun said: "Naiguang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Zhen, Ru, surname, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue twelve characters." When it comes to you, it is just the word 'enlightenment'. Would you like to call it 'Monkey King'?"
The Monkey King smiled: "Okay, good, good, from now on, he will be called Sun Wukong!" As he spoke, he turned his head and smiled with joy.
When the Monkey King got his name, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he bowed three times and nine times to the heavenly monarch, and officially bowed to the teacher.
Too young Lao Jun smiled and accepted it, Sun Wukong has a lot of spiritual roots, whether it is in the Buddha or the Tao, he has something to do, and he can be included in the door, which is also a creation.
Taishang Laojun ordered a group of disciples to lead Sun Wukong out of the ear door, teaching him to sprinkle and sweep to deal with it, and the immortals came out.
Wukong went to the door, worshiped the senior brothers, and arranged a sleeping place between the corridors. The next morning, he learned to be polite with all the senior brothers, lectured on the scriptures, and practiced words and burned incense. In his spare time, he sweeps the floor and hoes the garden, raises flowers and trees, looks for firewood and fires, and carries water and pulp. Everything that is used, everything is prepared.
Taishang Laojun preaches the Dharma, and he must first pass on his method of cultivating the mind, and his heart is as firm as the Tao, and then he will teach the technique.
Jin Chanzi said well, Taishang Laojun attaches great importance to cultivating the mind, the Ming Tao is cultivating the mind, and the three teachings are all invented by the heart, Confucianism is said to be in the heart, the immortal is said to be in the heart, and the Buddha is said to be in the heart.
Taishang Laojun arranged all kinds of arrangements for Sun Wukong, deliberately let Sun Wukong first "cultivate the heart" and then "practice", only the "heart" can be obtained first, in order to cultivate the ruthless way, take the long road of cultivating immortals, if the heart is not strong, I am afraid that the heart of the Tao is unstable and enters the devil's way.
Taishang Laojun let Sun Wukong first practice is "meditation", after all, Sun Wukong is a monkey surname, the surname is anxious, the avenue can not be rushed, can only be slowly mapped, meditation to return to the road, the heart is pure and quiet heaven road, the mind is chaotic and the hell gate, only meditation, can die delusional, stop evil thoughts, be calm and steady, and go up from the middle road.
However, Taishang Laojun did not want to wipe out the Monkey King's original surname, but suppressed the Monkey King's original surname, allowing him to slowly ferment in the dark corner, waiting for the day to tear through the darkness and break through the confinement.
Taishang Laojun never thought of cultivating Sun Wukong into a quiet and inactive Taoist immortal, but deliberately found his own way for Sun Wukong!
It's like the Heavenly Monarch finding the Buddha Gate for the Western Barbarians.
Taishang Laojun looked at Sun Wukong, who was covered in ink stains and licked the little wolf with his mouth, and saw him writing the word "immortality" on the white paper freely, penetrating the back of the paper, crossing the edge, and being free.
"Is your Tao immortal, or free, or broken?"
(Good morning everyone.,I didn't come back until more than eleven o'clock last night.,Last night plus this morning.,Barely write so much.,In order to prevent overtime at night.,Later all changed to upload chapters in the morning.,Okay,Actually, I've been uploading early lately)