A brief analysis of the lyrics of "Wukong"

There are a thousand Wukong in the hearts of a thousand people...

No one knows what Wukong should be like. A certain thought and a certain belief of millions of people condensed Wukong. Perhaps Wukong also represents the yearning in people's hearts, yearning for freedom and not being bound. However, it is impossible not to be bound in life, not even Wukong.

"The moon splashes on the stars, the road is long, the wind and smoke are gone, and the shadow is dim." The long journey to the West to learn the scriptures is lonely, and even the fear of witnessing death one day. He has lived as long as heaven and earth, but found that he still cannot escape the laws of heaven and earth.

He has extraordinary skills and has always been unruly. But there is also a dilemma between love and hate. Guanyin told him that after becoming the Monkey King, he would not be able to have feelings and nostalgia. On the journey to the west, he was attracted by the idea of ??"cultivating the right people" to wash away his past sins, but he was also humiliated and forced to submit to others. Along the way, I killed various monsters, my hands were stained with blood, and I felt deeply guilty. He didn't want to change his mind but was forced to embark on a path of no return, which made this stone monkey heartbroken!

Helpless, helpless.

In the fantasy world, everyone can’t help themselves, and it’s unclear who is right and who is wrong. Enlightenment is confused, that is, you first want to understand, but you can't understand it, and you want to let it go. This state is incomprehensible. The six dusts are the worldly original mind, which will not change in the end.

"You are angry, sad and crazy, you are a human being, a ghost or a monster, but you have a debt to the devil in your heart."

It was just that you, who was unruly back then, took the name Qitian and stepped on the temple to Ling. Xiao. Then he screamed in surprise! This is the closest you will ever get to the person in Lingxiao Palace. The immortals in heaven think you are a stubborn stone monkey with great supernatural powers, not even a big variable on the long road to immortality. The Tathagata has the highest majesty, and then he seems to give you a palm with sincerity for five hundred years, leaving you with the opportunity to realize the Tao, and leaving you with five hundred years of wind and rain. But you are the Monkey King who knows the seventy-two transformations and holds the golden cudgel! The majestic Monkey King, the Monkey King! You are never the same as them. After experiencing so many things, I asked myself about my inner self. A person who commits crimes and performs meritorious deeds may seem majestic, but in fact he is just a monster criminal. If the journey to the west is successful, there will be merit, but if it is not successful, he will always be trapped in suffering, which is the same as being tortured. So who do you think you are?

"Call Buddha, and there will be no shore when you turn back." Doesn't Buddha know that there will be no shore when you turn back? What if you become a Buddha? Maybe when Buddha was young, he was another Buddha who fought and defeated? Another "Wukong"?

"Kneeling down as a teacher, life or death has nothing to do with it." From then on, there was no more unruly and unruly Monkey King, only Wukong who traveled westward to learn Buddhist scriptures.

From a certain perspective, Wukong is no different from all other living beings. Maybe there is no Wukong in the first place, or everyone is Wukong, and everyone is a god and Buddha. From the moment the ancestor met you, the known variables were determined and he named you Wukong.

Enlighten it! It is best to realize that everything is empty. Buddhism is also called emptiness. The emptiness that the Buddha said is the Tathagata, returning to its true nature. It is the true nature of all dharma, and also refers to the true nature of all things and phenomena.

"The world of good and evil floats in the world of true and false, and the separation and gathering of earthly connections are not clear? It is difficult to judge." Gratitude and resentment, the complexity of things, and the helplessness of life cannot be explained clearly or clearly in a few words.

"What is the use of this iron rod? What if I want this change? I am still uneasy, still melancholy, with the golden hoop on my head. I want to stop talking." What should the Wukong in my heart be like? It drew a circle with the iron rod. "There is no need for all the people in the world to understand my meaning, and I don't want all the gods and Buddhas to disappear into thin air." "There are three or two people, or one person who understands me. Even those gods and Buddhas cannot pass through this circle in front of me. I'll put this iron rod to use!" Now the monkey on the way to the west has finally realized what it's like to be sad and wants to stop talking.

"I want this iron rod to make me dance like a drunken demon. I have this transformation and confusion. I can trample my soul and act wildly. I will never escape from the dangers of evil in this world. This rod? I will turn you into ashes."

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I don’t know whether it’s “The dangers of the evil ways in this world will eventually escape from this stick” or “The dangers of the evil ways in this world will eventually be inevitable, and this stick will wipe you out.”

If it is "One cannot escape from the dangers of the evil ways in this world," then it means that one cannot escape from the dangers of the evil ways in this world. This is in line with the main purpose of Journey to the West. The main purpose of Journey to the West is that people living in this world will never die. You can't escape the constraints and illusions. If you think you are strong and have a breakthrough, a new realm will immediately envelope you.

But judging from the majestic feeling expressed in this song, I would rather interpret it as "There is no way to escape from the dangers of evil in this world, and this stick will wipe you out." This is more in line with Wukong's fighting spirit. I have experienced so many mood changes before, from confusion to fear to self-pity, and finally I finally remembered who I am, an unruly monkey. The most primitive dream in the monkey's heart is to be unfettered and unconstrained by heaven and earth, gods, life and death.

In everyone's heart, there is a Wukong who is authentic, self-abased, aggrieved, unwilling, helpless, miserable, lonely and frightened.