The Sugar Monk's Journey to the West: from Gluttony to Zen Mind

Summary of "The Sugar Monk's Journey to the West: From Glutton to Zen Heart" This is a hilarious new version of Journey to the West that is guided by "greedy" and based on "Zen". On the Lingshan Mountain, Jin Chanzi was demoted to the mortal world by the Buddha because of his greed for fairy sugar and misinterpretation of Buddhist teachings by using "candy cubes to represent the color of space". He was reincarnated as Xuanzang, the "sugar monk" of Jinshan Temple in the Tang Dynasty. With his obsession with "sweetness", he embarked on the westward journey, but in the laughter and laughter with his disciples, he gradually understood the essence of "greedy" - it is the desire for perfection, and the real perfection is not to monopolize sweetness, but to let all living beings taste sweetness. Wukong's "strong sugar", Bajie's "greedy sugar", and Sha Monk's "hiding sugar" are just like the epitome of all kinds of obsessions in the world; the White Bone Demon's "love greed", the "love greed" of the Daughter Kingdom, and the "angry greed" of the Flame Mountain are all embodiments of inner demons. Xuanzang used "dietary Zen" to resolve the crisis along the way: from "distributing sugar to see compassion" to "finding the sweetness of bitter tea", from "grabbing sugar to break ego" to "passing sweetness to save all living beings". Finally, he understood that traveling west was not to obtain the "Sugar Sutra", but to be a "sugar brewer". The whole book deconstructs spiritual practice with humor, stringing together emptiness with sugar cubes, and revealing the original mind with a greedy mouth. It tells you: Zen is not in the asceticism in the ancient temple of Lingshan, but in the sweetness of the fireworks in the world - being able to chew the sweetness out of the bitterness is the true "greedy" and the true "Zen".