At the end of Journey to the West , why did the two monks take bribes from Tang Seng before they we

Because these two monks were famous generals under the Buddha, they finally took bribes from Tang Seng and them, but also to test them and experience the last difficulty.

That's just the plot of **, don't take it seriously, this is Mr. Wu's use of the past to satirize the present and expose the social phenomenon at that time.

This is ordered by Rulai, and the purpose is to test Tang Seng's humanity.

Because the Buddha was testing Tang Seng, he didn't plan to let Tang Seng take the scriptures directly, butIt is necessary to let Tang Seng exchange the scriptures. Tang Seng finally reached the West Heaven after many tribulations, but when he took away the scriptures, he met two Venerable Ones who asked for "personnel". "Personnel" is the benefit fee.

Tang Seng didn't expect to pay a benefit fee for learning scriptures, so he directly said no. Many readers also don't understand why His Holiness still asks Tang Seng for a favor. But looking at the reaction of the Buddha later, he was informed.

Tang Seng did not pay the benefit fee, and the two Venerables gave Tang Seng a wordless scripture, that is, a fake scripture. After Tang Seng and others found out, they rushed back and complained to the Buddha, why did they give fake scriptures without a benefit fee? When the Buddha heard this, he not only did not get angry, but also persuaded Tang Seng to pay the benefit fee.

He said, "The sutras should not be passed on lightly, nor should they be taken empty," which shows that the Buddha agreed with His Holiness's approach. If Tang Seng wants to take the scriptures, he has to take the benefit fee. Don't you think it's strange that Buddhism is not pure with six roots?

What more benefits do you need?

The Buddha wanted to tell Tang Seng that if he wanted to get, he had to pay. Tang Seng felt that he had gone through a lot of hardships to learn the scriptures, and he was acting on orders, and he should have obtained it for free. However, the Buddha said that there should be a benefit fee for learning scriptures, and Buddhism did not send scriptures to the Tang Dynasty for free.

Tang Seng only then knew that he had to pay the price if he got the scriptures. He exchanged his purple gold bowl for the scriptures. This purple gold bowl was given to him by Tang Seng's sworn brother Tang Taizong, and it was used to turn into a golden bowl.

Tang Seng only has this valuable thing on his body.

Tang Seng would exchange this bowl for scriptures, also because he knew that scriptures were not easy to take. Although the purple gold bowl is valuable, it is worth exchanging it for scriptures. Why did the Buddha emphasize exchanging rather than taking?

Just like in life, some people want others to help them unconditionally in their time of need. When others don't help, they will say that they will not save them when they die, and scold them in turn. This kind of thinking of taking is not right, and who has the obligation to help you unconditionally?

In general, Tang Seng's act of changing scriptures is not a "bribe", but a rule. The Buddha is emphasizing this kind of social rule, you should not blindly take it, you must give if you want to get it.

It may be that if they are instructed to do so, it is a sign that the scriptures should not be passed on lightly. On the one hand, Wu Chengen did not want to write Buddhism very well, which was inconsistent with the mainstream ideas at that time, so he deliberately catered to Taoist ideas to belittle Buddhism.

This is to let Tang monks and apprentices understand that the scriptures are not so easy to obtain, and they have to pay a certain price, and they can only look at and cherish them more hard-won.

Absolutely. There is a give-and-take. Copyright fees have to be collected, like we all listen to pirated songs and read pirated books now, who can still create in the future? Knowledge is valuable and expensive, just like you have to pay teachers to study, so that the teaching profession can retain people and attract talents.

Because they have to go through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, and this is the last difficulty, and in order to achieve righteousness, they have to understand all the truths.

Only talking about Journey to the West here, Xuanzang in reality is fearless and selfless from beginning to end, and ventured to India to learn from experience.

The Tang monk in Journey to the West initially treated the scriptures because he owed the benefits and favors of the Tang king, and had to risk his life to go on this official task appointed by the emperor.

Then the addition of Sun Wukong made him feel that the hope of this trip doubled, and because Sun Wukong had already attained the Tao, Tang Seng's inner practice was enlightened by him along the way, and he felt more and more that the fruits of becoming a Buddha were close at hand, and it was no longer such a simple return for Tang Wang to earn worldly fame and fortune.

Among them, Tang Seng has the mentality of turning his face without grace and walking a hundred miles and a half ninety.

In the end, because he was led by Wukong, who was tightly clamped and had no different paths, with his own psychological growth and enlightenment, the two reached a consensus, Tang Seng was no longer obsessed with his position as the "leader of learning scriptures", and gave Sun Wukong the power to open up the road, so that he successfully overcame the obscure and treacherous bumps and fell to the destination of "merit".

There's nothing in this world that you can get for no reason, and even if it's Buddhism for all beings, he can't be frank and give you what you want directly. This idea may arise because we yearn for such a beautiful society, in fact, as we know ourselves, such a beautiful society does not exist, if we want to say why, it is because there are two sides to this world. Yin and yang are the same as light and dark, and nothing has only one side.

This is especially true in the world we live in.

There is a saying in Buddhism that those who cannot enter the hall have no chance, and if they pass the scriptures with their white hands and pass them in the air, if they cannot recognize their know-how, if they do not know their truth, they will suffer. The four masters and apprentices had already obtained the scriptures, but later found that they were blank, and they wanted the scriptures.

This is the place where Tang Seng is stupid. They want to have a true sentence and then they will pay a certain price for their stupidity, and the other way is that the Dharma in Buddhism cannot be passed on casually or empty.

If you don't pay any price to get the real scriptures, you will be considered by the world to be very easy to get, and there is a feeling of indifference, which is not beneficial to the transmission of Buddhism, and in summary, the approach of these two monks is reasonable, and there is no reason for the Buddha to stop it. Most of us see it as worldly irony, but this is actually a certain deviation in our own opinions and perceptions.

Therefore, these two treasures were originally the two of them, and during the whole process of "Journey to the West", these two treasures were only temporarily lent to the Tang monks in order to complete the task of learning scriptures from the West, so in the end you will find that they belong to themselves like this, in fact, it is reasonable The Buddha later explained that the real Dharma cannot be expressed in words, but can only be understood with the heart, but Gaye is a person who can communicate with his heart, so he passed the robe and bowl cup to Gaye, and after him, the next heir is Ah Ao.

Because these two monks knew that Tang Seng had nothing to give, only a purple gold bowl and a brocade robe, these two samples were the things of the two monks, and it could only be said that they wanted to get back what belonged to them.

Because there is no such thing as a free lunch, if you want to get their true scriptures, you must give something in return. Therefore, we must not be greedy, and if we want other people's things, we must work hard.

This reveals the sinister nature of the world, in order to test the 5 Tang monks and apprentices to see if they are really learning from the scriptures and being polluted by the world.