On April 15th, 2017, Director of the famous TV series - Journey to the West (1986 version), Yang Jie, died at her 88. Such a great female director who had brought the Hero Sun Wukong into so many people’s childhood dreams would never came back again. When it comes to the TV series - Journey to the West (1986 version), how much do you know about it?
It actually should rank No. 1 among the four major classival novels.
Someone had mentioned that a child simply cann’t understand the content in this novel at all. Only if you’ve understood true meaning of all hardships in this world could you really understand true meaning of the whole life. It actually should rank No. 1 among the four major classival novels. Moreover, it is one of the greatest books themed with success science. It indeed reveals ways to deal with demons and evils in our deep hearts to gain success. Through a series of mythological stories of going on a pilgramage for the Budhhist Scriptures to the west, the author Wu Cheng’en was trying to lead the readers to overcome demons and evils in our deep heart to gain success.
Each character in this novel represents a part of our human body respectively.
Actually, five members of the team going on a pilgramage for the Budhhist Scriptures to the west: Sun Wukong, Monk Xuanzang, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing together with a dragon prince represent each part of our human body respectively. Sun represents our heart; Monk Xuanzang represents our body; Zhu Bajie represents our sex desire; Sha Wujing represents our human nature and the dragon prince represents our persistence.
When you practice your heart as Sun Wukong struggles for the hardships, you’ll be like him.
Power of Sun Wukong is the strongest among all members of the team. Using his power properly, he can make great contribution for his team. However, if his power is not properly used, he could be a demon and need to be controled by Monk Xuanzang by murmuring Buddhism language. In their long process to their destination, Sun suffers the most and toughest hardships but he finally succeeded to be awarded as the “Victorious Fighting Buddha”. Why finally the Buddha give the team wordless Buddhist texts is that those wordless Buddhist texts are real Buddhist texts. Because all the experiences and hardships on their journey to the West are actually the real content for the wordless Buddhist texts.
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