Chapter 121 The stone monkey found the truth, and the great calamity of Journey to the West began
After the stone monkey transformed, it quickly became familiar with the original monkey group on Huaguo Mountain. After all, they were all monkeys, but the original monkey group did not reject it. One day, all the monkeys were bathing together in the mountain stream. One monkey suddenly said: "I don't know where the water in this mountain stream comes from. Anyway, we have already washed it. Why don't we look for it?" He is a restless master, and any proposal will be approved unanimously.
A group of monkeys went up the river and came to a big waterfall. When the monkeys saw the big waterfall, they all shouted: "Good water, good water, what a big waterfall!"
At this time, another monkey proposed: "The one who has the ability to get in and find the source without getting hurt, we will worship him as the monkey king."
At this time, the stone monkey jumped out and said: "I will go, I will go." When the group of monkeys saw that there was a monkey who wanted to go, they naturally would not stop it. The stone monkey immediately jumped into the waterfall. The stone monkey used too much force, but it happened to pass through the waterfall and entered a cave behind the waterfall. I only saw a stone tablet at the entrance of the cave. There was a line of large characters on the stone tablet, which read "Huaguo Mountain is a blessed land, Shuiliandong is a cave in the sky."
There was no water or waves inside, and the bright bridge turned out to be an iron bridge. The water under the bridge rushed through the stone holes, flowed out upside down, and closed the bridge door.
The monkey is on the bridge, and when we walk further, it looks like someone is living there. It¡¯s such a good place. But see that - green moss piles of blue, white clouds and jade, light shaking pieces of haze. A quiet room with empty windows and flowers on the sliding bench. The dragon ball hanging in the breast cave is full of strange flowers. There are traces of fire beside the pot and stove, and there are traces of food left by the bottle and lei leaning against the table. The stone seats and beds are so lovely, and the stone basins and bowls are even more praiseworthy. I also saw one and two poles repairing bamboo, and there were three and five plum blossoms. There are several green pine trees that often bring rain, and it looks like a personal home.
When the stone monkey saw this, he was overjoyed and shouted: "Great fortune, great fortune!" Then without entering the cave to take a closer look, he hurriedly jumped out to tell the monkeys the good news.
After the stone monkey jumped out of the waterfall, he told the monkeys about the situation in the waterfall. The monkeys also kept their promise and worshiped the stone monkey as the monkey king. From then on, the stone monkey called himself the Monkey King.
The Monkey King leads a group of apes, macaques, horse monkeys, etc., and assigns monarchs, ministers, and envoys. They travel to Huaguo Mountain in the morning and stay in the Water Curtain Cave in the evening. They work together and sympathize with each other. They do not enter the jungle of birds or follow animals. They are kings alone and cannot win. joy. Therefore - in the spring you pick flowers for your food, and in the summer you look for fruits for your livelihood. Harvesting taro and chestnuts in autumn delays the harvest season, while hunting for yellow flowers in winter ensures their bloom.
The Monkey King enjoys pleasure and innocence, how can he live for three to five hundred years? One day, during a wedding banquet with a group of monkeys, he suddenly became distressed and shed tears. All the monkeys hurriedly bowed and said, "Why is the king troubled?"
The Monkey King said: "Although I am happy, I am a little far-sighted, so I am troubled."
The monkeys laughed again and said: "Your Majesty, you are so dissatisfied! We will meet happily every day in the blessed land of the Fairy Mountain and the Ancient Cave and Divine Continent. We will not be governed by unicorns, governed by phoenixes, or restrained by human kings. We will be free and at ease, which is an immeasurable blessing. , why worry about the future?"
The Monkey King said: "Although I am not subject to the laws of the human king today, I am not afraid of the majesty of animals. In the future, when I am old and my blood is weak, I will secretly be in charge of it. Once I die, will I be reborn in the world in vain and not be able to live in the heavens and humans for a long time?"
When all the monkeys heard this, they all covered their faces and cried sadly, all worried about impermanence. I saw a straight-backed ape suddenly jumped out of the group and shouted loudly: "If your Majesty is so far-sighted, what is the so-called development of the Taoist mind! Now among the five insects, there are only three levels of mind and body, and they are not under the control of the King of Hell, Lao Tzu." ."
The Monkey King said: "Do you know those three classes of people?"
The ape said: "It is the Buddha, the Immortal and the Holy Three who escape reincarnation, are immortal and live as long as the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers."
The Monkey King asked: "Where do these three people live?"
The ape said: "He is only in the world of Jambudvipa, within the ancient cave and fairy mountain."
When the Monkey King heard this, he was filled with joy and said: "Tomorrow I will bid farewell to you and go down the mountain. I will travel to the corners of the sea and to the ends of the earth. I must visit these three people to learn how to live forever and avoid the troubles of Yama."
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? With these words, Dunjiao jumped out of the net of reincarnation and made the Monkey King the Great Sage.
All the monkeys clapped their hands and praised him, saying, "Well done, well done! Tomorrow we will cross the mountains and climb the mountain to look for some fruits and hold a big banquet to send the king off."
The next day, all the monkeys went to pick fairy peaches, pick exotic fruits, dig yams, peel polygonatum, orchids, yaicaos and exotic flowers, everything was neatly arranged, and stone benches and tables were set up, and fairy wine and fairy delicacies were arranged.
?? But see that - golden pills, red and yellow. The waxed cherries with golden balls are really sweet in color; the plums are red, yellow, plump and ripe, and have a fruity and sour taste. Fresh longan has sweet flesh and thin skin; fire lychee has red core and small capsule. The trees are full of green branches, and the loquats are in buds with leaves. Rabbit head, pear, chicken heart and date can quench thirst and relieve restlessness. The fragrant peaches and rotten apricots are as sweet as jade liquid and nectar; the crisp plums and bayberry are as acidic and shady as buttery cheese. Ripe watermelon with red sacs and black seeds, large persimmon with four petals and yellow skin. The pomegranate is split, and the sand grains reveal fire crystal beads; the taro chestnut is cut open,??Hard meat ball golden agate. Walnuts and ginkgo can be used to make tea, and coconut grapes can be used to make wine. The dishes are full of hazelnuts, pine and torreya, and the tables are filled with oranges, sugarcane and tangerines. Cook the yam and boil the Polygonatum japonica. Crush the poria cocos and coix, and spread the soup in the stone pot over low heat. Even if there is a taste of shame in the world, how can it be more peaceful than the joy of mountain monkeys!
A group of monkeys sat on top, respecting the Monkey King, and arranged themselves below according to their teeth and shoulders. They took turns coming forward to offer wine, flowers and fruits, and drank heavily all day long.
The next day, the Monkey King got up early and called: "Young boys, fold some dead pine trees for me and make a raft, take a bamboo pole to make a pole, and pack some fruits and the like. I will go." Guo boarded the raft alone and tried his best. Open it up, drifting, radiating into the waves of the sea, taking advantage of the wind to cross the border of Nanfangbuzhou.
This time, it is exactly that - the natural monkey is traveling in a prosperous way, leaving the mountain on a raft to take advantage of the wind. Traveling across the ocean in search of the path to immortality, I am determined to devote myself to making great achievements. If you have the destiny to break away from the secular world, you will meet Yuanlong without any worries. It is expected that you will meet a confidant who will tell you that everything can be done through the source.
"Perhaps there are some injustices in the way of heaven. It is always more difficult for foreign objects to achieve enlightenment than for humans. Even seeking the enlightenment requires more hardships.
Although the monkey was born intelligent, he still did not understand things, did not understand the changes in the way of heaven, did not understand the secrets of heaven, and was ignorant. With a heart of seeking immortality and asking questions, he wandered on the vast sea, although he had a bright future. The heart of Tao, but it is inevitable that there will be disasters. Mortals still have three disasters and nine disasters, not to mention those who are born with spiritual wisdom and destiny.
The monkey had been traveling on the sea for less than a month when he encountered a hurricane and set off huge waves. The sky was filled with dark clouds, lightning and thunder roared, and huge waves surged into the sky. Isn't this sky comparable to that of monkeys and other spiritual beings who have not yet received supernatural powers? The power of that day was unpredictable, but my heart was filled with fear, trembling, frightened, and dizzy, and I was at a loss what to do.
The monkey was destined for this calamity, and he had the help of immortals and Buddhas. Two rays of light, one red and one gold, flew from thirty-three days away. The red light calmed the huge waves on the sea and dispersed the lightning. Thunder roared, and the golden light floated steadily in one direction when pushed onto the raft. The monkey was frightened and fainted because it was the first time he saw such power of heaven and earth. Therefore, the monkey did not see all this.
It is said that what originally flew down from thirty-three days away were three rays of light, which were jade, gold, and red. However, when it was flying out of thirty-three days, it was stopped by a sudden red light. Therefore, only the golden and red brilliance fell into the earthly immortal world.
Thirty-three days away, in the clear realm of Qingwei Tianyu.
Yuan Shi looked at the bamboo raft floating to the northwest with an expressionless face, snorted coldly, then looked outside the Yuqing Hall, sighed, then closed his eyes and wandered away.
Taichitian, in the Eight Views Palace.
Laojun suddenly opened his eyes, looked outside the palace, sighed in his heart, and said: "Junior brother, it is not the time to take action at this time. Don't lose your plan. We will settle the score later." After that, he closed his eyes and wandered away. .
After a few days, the monkey gained some knowledge. He tested the water with his pole and occasionally found shallow water. He abandoned the raft and jumped onto the shore. I saw people fishing, hunting geese, clams and panning for salt on the beach. He approached and played a trick, pretending to be a tiger, which frightened the people into throwing away their baskets and nets and running in all directions. Take one of those who can't run, take off his clothes, and put them on others like others. Swinging them across the state and government, in the streets, learning the etiquette and language of others. Dinner and overnight stay, dedicated to visiting the sacred path of Buddha and Immortal, and looking for a place of immortality.
The Monkey King visited the Immortal Road and met him unexpectedly. He stayed in Nanfanbuzhou, walked along the Great Wall, and visited small counties for more than ten years. Suddenly he reached the Western Sea. He thought that there must be gods overseas, so he made a raft alone in front of him and floated across the Western Sea to the border of Xiniu Hezhou.
After visiting the shore for a long time, I suddenly saw a beautiful mountain with deep forest foothills. He was not afraid of wolves, worms, tigers or leopards. He climbed to the top of the mountain and looked at it. It turned out to be a beautiful mountain.
While I was watching, I suddenly heard someone speaking deep in the forest. I hurriedly walked into the forest and listened. It turned out to be the sound of singing. The song said:
Watching chess, lipped Ding Ding, Yunbian Goukou Xu Xingxing. Selling firewood and selling wine, laughing wildly to express love. The green path is high in autumn, and the pine roots are pillowed against the moon, and I wake up to the dawn. Recognize old forests, climb cliffs and cross ridges, and cut dead vines with an ax. Harvested into a load, Xingge is sold in the market, and three liters of rice are easily sold. There is no competition, and the current price is average. He doesn't know how to make clever calculations, he has no honor or disgrace, and his life is indifferent. Where we met, he was either an immortal or a Taoist, sitting quietly and talking about "Huang Ting".
Hearing this, the Monkey King was filled with joy and said: "The gods are hiding here!" He quickly jumped inside and looked carefully, he was a woodcutter, chopping firewood with an axe, but he looked very dressed - Wearing a bamboo hat on the head is the bamboo shoots taking off their bamboo hats for the first time. The cloth on the body is made of cotton. The sash around the waist is made of silk spun from the mouth of an old silkworm. It feels so good to step on straw sandals under dry sand. He holds a green steel ax in his hand and holds a hemp rope on his shoulder. Loosening and splitting dead trees is as good as that of a woodcutter!
The monkey visited the woodcutter, who denied that he was an immortal. After some inquiries, the monkey found out that the mountain was called Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. There was a three-star cave with a slanting moon in the mountain. There was an immortal in the cave named Patriarch Subhuti. The song sung by the woodcutter is??This was passed down by Patriarch Subhuti.
After the monkey king heard about it, he went out of the deep forest and found a path, but the woodcutter didn't look like a human being. After he left, he disappeared.
After passing a hillside, about seven or eight miles away, the monkey saw a cave.
The door of the cave was closed tightly, and it was quiet and deserted. Suddenly, I turned around and saw a stone tablet standing at the head of the cliff. It was about three feet high and eight feet wide. There was a line of ten characters on it, which was "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, with three stars on the slanting moon." Hole". The Monkey King was very happy and said: "The people here are really simple, and there are mountains and caves like this."
After that, he learned the method of immortality, the art of soaring into the clouds and riding the mist, and the mystical martial arts in the Seven Star Cave. Subhuti then sent him back to Huaguo Mountain under random excuses, so the calamity of journey to the west had begun.