Who is the most mysterious ordinary person in "Journey to the West"?

Among the mysterious ordinary people in "Journey to the West", Patriarch Bodhi is not among them. The woodcutter who chops wood is one. Let me talk about another mysterious person? Elder Jinchi.

01. Elder Jinchi

Elder Jinchi lived for 270 years, but he was a mortal, and he was also the presiding officer of Guanyin House, but he did very strange things. Elder Jinchi not only befriends monsters, but also has five senses. He is both greedy and murderous. He also wants to seize the cassock given to Tang Monk by Guanyin. This is obviously a family overcoming the other family. How can Guanyin be embarrassed?

Elder Jinchi appeared in gorgeous clothes. He looked like a rich monk. What is particularly interesting is his old age!

The face is full of wrinkles, just like the dry land in June, with ravines and pits, just like Old Mother Lishan!

A pair of drowsy eyes, unable to see far or near, vague and drowsy, very much like the Dragon Lord of the East China Sea!

The teeth have fallen out, the mouth can no longer close; the waist is bent, the back is hunched, and the walk is trembling. Such a person actually still has greed and murderous intentions, and his face is so shameless. Like old mother Lishan, with eyes like the dragon king of the East China Sea? "Journey to the West" records: Her face is covered with wrinkles, like the old mother of Lishan; her eyes are dim, but she is like the dragon king of the East China Sea. If the mouth is not closed due to wind, the teeth may fall out, and the waist may be hunched and the back may be bent due to spasticity.

If we investigate from here, things will be strange!

The Dragon King of the East China Sea had the Ruyi Golden Cudgel and the Fangtian Painted Halberd in his hands but didn’t know how to use them. It can be said that he was blind and blind. Elder Jinchi stole the cassock given by Guanyin to Tang Monk, and also burned Sun Wukong and others to silence him. Indeed, Can be considered blind!

Robbing Tang Monk's cassock on Guanyin's territory is a sign of ignorance; Wukong, who can't be burned by real fire even if he burns Samadhi, is stupid; it is a sin for monks to be greedy and silence them, and they are indeed ignorant. Her face is covered with wrinkles, like Mother Lishan? This statement is incredible!

In the 23rd chapter of "Journey to the West", when the four saints are testing their Zen mind, Bajie sees that the old mother of Lishan is covered with pearls and emeralds, and her charm is so good. She is still beautiful even without makeup, and she is as charming as a young man. After all, it is obvious that Elder Jinchi and Old Mother Lishan are not related to each other.

If Elder Jinchi’s seniority as host obviously has nothing to do with his appearance, does Elder Jinchi’s identity become mysterious now? But I still can’t see why, so I have to continue talking.

02. Burning the Zen Hall

The problem was caused by Tang Monk’s endless praise and love.

Elder Jinchi is obviously not a person without desires and pleasures. He likes to show off. In addition to what he wears, he also uses extremely luxurious things, so he took out a tea set, and even Tang Monk praised it. Among them, delicious food and beautiful utensils.

After showing off, Elder Jinchi also wanted to see Tang Seng’s family background. Tang Seng naturally resisted, but Sun Wukong said that he had a precious cassock.

Elder Jinchi simply wanted to show off. Now he was not convinced. He brought out twelve cabinets of cassocks in one go. The luxurious silk cassocks filled the hall.

When Sun Wukong saw Fanpin, he couldn't bear it. He was a tough and ruthless person, so he took out the life-saving cassock given to Monk Tang by Guanyin.

When Elder Jinchi saw it, he felt that life was meaningless. What a cassock! So he borrowed the cassock because he had bad eyesight and had to watch it all night.

In order to seize Tang Monk’s precious cassock, the apprentice came up with three strategies.

1. Borrow, keep Tang Monk for one day, and you can keep the cassock for one more day.

Second, kill, except Tang Monk and others, and bury them in the vegetable garden, all done.

Three, burning, burning the meditation hall, using the fire as an excuse to avoid the consequences of murder.

Elder Jinchi then decided to burn down the meditation hall. Interestingly, Sun Wukong went to the Heavenly Palace and borrowed a fire shield to protect Tang Monk and others. As a result, Elder Jinchi burned the lower courtyard of Guanyin but did not harm Tang Monk at all. After the defeat, he hit the wall and committed suicide. .

Elder Jinchi is dead, but the matter is not over yet.

The cassock was stolen by the black bear spirit, and Sun Wukong went to fight with him. Not only was the monster not afraid of Sun Wukong after he knew his identity, he also mocked Sun Wukong in a funny way: Are you the Bima Wen who is causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace? ?

The black bear spirit is also very capable, as good as Sun Wukong. When he gets tired, he goes back to his cave to sleep, which makes Sun Wukong feel a little sad.

03. Who is Elder Jinchi?

With nothing to do, Sun Wukong had no choice but to go to Guanyin. He used the excuse that Guanyin only enjoyed the incense in the Zen courtyard, but did not care about anything and allowed monsters to steal the cassock, which belonged to Guanyin. oversight.

As soon as Guanyin heard this, she knew that Sun Wukong was paying attention, and cursed that the monkey was causing the trouble. However, for the sake of Tang Monk, he went to subdue the black bear spirit, because there was no one to take care of him behind Luojia Mountain. housekeeper.

Sun Wukong wants Guanyin to transform into Fairy Lingxu and say something very important: Is it a fairy Bodhisattva, or a Bodhisattva fairy?

Guanyin’s answer is also wonderful: Bodhisattvas and demons always have one thought. If we talk about the original, they all belong to nothingness.

Sun Wukong realized now that this difficulty was greed, and it was Guanyin who set up a scheme to eradicate the greed in Tang Monk's vulgar thoughts. After all, Tang Seng is a mortal who is happy when he sees things. Although he does not have the idea of ????killing people and stealing goods, he still wants to witness the evil intentions of mortals caused by greed, which confirms what the Tathagata said? Those people in Nanshanbuzhou are greedy for sex and enjoy misfortunes, killing more and more. ?, firm in the idea of ????retrieving scriptures, retrieve the Tripitaka Sutra, and persuade people to do good!

Elder Jinchi came to drive away Tang Monk’s greed, so who is he?

In this episode of the Four Saints' Test of Zen Heart, Old Mother Li (Li) Shan appeared on the stage, and her identity was Guanyin's mother. This was because Guanyin owed Mother Li Shan a favor by asking her to play the role of Elder Jinchi, so I repaid this karma as my daughter.

Lishan Mother, Guanyin, Samantabhadra, and Manjusri put on a big show to test Tang Seng’s love for his son and daughter. Although Tang Seng focused on learning scriptures, he didn’t refuse them outright, but rejected them. Dumb, eyes closed, peace of mind, silent and not answering?, so before the relationship passed, there was the test of the king of the daughter country.

The test of the Zen heart of the Four Saints is to test the love of wealth, and the king of the Daughter Kingdom is to test the love of power. Tang Monk finally broke through the relationship after these two tests. Heart. Zhu Bajie, who was deceived, certainly didn't get any good results. He was hung up all night and suffered terribly.

In the minds of the Four Saints trying to practice Zen, there is a sentence that connects love and greed, that is: "Sex is a sword that hurts the body, and those who are greedy will definitely suffer disaster", which exactly echoes the words of Elder Jinchi who tested Tang Monk's greed. Once. Guanyin returns the favor and becomes Mother Lishan's daughter; the relationship between love and greed is connected in the poem, all implying that Elder Jinchi is Mother Lishan. Isn't this ordinary person mysterious enough?