Everyone thinks the Journey to the West was a benevolent mission to save all living beings. What they don’t know is that every step of that 108,000-mile journey landed on a bead in the Buddha’s abacus. When Sun Wukong thought he had broken free of the shackles of Five Elements Mountain, he had merely gone from one prison into a vast cage called the “Journey to the West.”
It was a carefully orchestrated “Ponzi scheme.”
The Spirit Mountain needed to expand, the Heavenly Court needed to maintain the balance of power, and Tang Sanzang and his disciples were nothing more than pawns in this struggle for power.
Of the so-called Eighty-One Tribulations, how many were destined to happen, and how many were part of a “script” directed by Guanyin?
Who was really behind the rumor that “eating Tang Sanzang’s flesh grants immortality,” stirring things up and luring countless demons to rush to their deaths?
And the golden headband he wore: was it really there to “keep the monkey mind in check”? No. It was a chain of enslavement, a control chip embedded in his flesh.
