Journey to the West: After the Tang Priest expelled the Monkey King, the true and false Monkey King appeared. Why are there two the Monkey King?

There are two the Monkey King because of Wukong's "multitasking".

This paper holds that the struggle between Wukong and "Liu Er Macaque" can be regarded as the external representation of Wukong's inner ideological struggle. Because of his character, he didn't repay the Tang Priest's rescue and later spell bondage. He really didn't obey a timid old monk and became a bodyguard.

Even if you want to learn from the scriptures, you should "go to the west to pray for the scriptures and send them to the east." I succeeded alone and taught the people in the south to make me my ancestor, which will last forever. " This kind of thought is contrary to the basic idea of Buddhism that everything is empty. Therefore, there is bound to be a life-and-death struggle between Wukong as a "walker" and the Monkey King as a "62 macaque".

Tathagata has long seen this battle. When two monkeys hit Lingshan, Tathagata was reading an article about "emptiness" and "color". This is actually the Tathagata's attitude towards the issue of "two hearts" and "unity". Generally speaking, everything is empty. Only when they realize "emptiness" can they achieve a positive result. They clearly say, "Look at the competition between two hearts."

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Synopsis of the true and false Monkey King story: A fake Wukong jumped out from the real Wukong, and the fake Wukong was very powerful, imitating the words and deeds of the real Wukong vividly, making it difficult to distinguish. So they came to the Tang Priest, who looked at Wukong, who was obviously his apprentice. Look at that, too.

I don't know what to do. I'm afraid I have mistaken my apprentice. There's nothing I can do. The two men also turned to Guanyin for help. Guanyin saw that both of them were like Wukong, who was painstakingly cultivated by himself. For a moment, they lost their minds, waved their hands and could do nothing. The two of them went to see His Highness the Tibetan Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva has a deity called Listening, who can distinguish everything in the world, but shakes his head after listening. Finally, the two men came to the Buddha, who could tell the truth in a blink of an eye.