Original source:
Zhao Gang, Editor in Chief of China Education Online International Education Channel
As a cinerary level overseas returnee, I especially recommend the masterpiece Taibai Jinxing is a bit boring by the well-known writer Ma Boyong to the Chinese graduates studying abroad for employment (they can be counted as "fresh graduates" within two years after graduation overseas). This is a "career guide" in the fairyland and Buddhist world. It has a lot of aftertaste. It's wonderful. Do you and I understand it?
01 The work assigned by the leader is a little boring
The first slogan on the cover of "Taibaijinxing is a bit boring" is the finishing touch of the main line of the book: "The gods and immortals in the heaven are all social animals, and migrant workers on the way to the west."
Taibai Venus, named Li Changgeng, is in charge of the Qiming Hall in the celestial world. On weekdays, there are many trivial things to send and receive. The Buddha World Tathagata worked closely with the Jade Emperor on the matter of his second disciple Jin Chanzi becoming a Buddha. The two sides sent Goddess Avalokitesvara and Taibai Jinxing respectively to be responsible for promoting the whole process of "learning scriptures from the west" and "cultivating positive fruits".
When the senior leaders of the Buddhist world promoted their own followers to study and train cadres in the name of Buddhism, Jin Chanzi was reincarnated and sent to the grass-roots level to start from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, step by step, with the goal of Lingshan Buddhist world.
It would have been 14 years since the event that had been in the heaven (fairyland, Buddha) for half a month had been transferred to the lower world. The most troublesome thing for Guanyin during the investigation period was how to make up for the ninety-nine eighty-one difficult drama! There are many aspects to consider and take into account.
The golden cicada son, whose name is Xuanzang, is a Tathagata who needs all kinds of care and cannot be hurt;
Marshal Tianpeng, a trusted member of the Jade Emperor, was dismissed from all his posts after drinking and sexually harassed Chang'e. He was demoted to the world as a pig. This time, he borrowed his experience of washing white classics and reappointed him later;
Sun Wukong, who was unpopular with the leaders in the fairyland, had no backers in his unit, and enjoyed the false duty of "Qi Tian Da Sheng", was instigated to collide with the senior leaders in Lingxiao Palace, until he was sentenced to five hundred years' imprisonment and detained in Wuhang Mountain Prison. The Jade Emperor gnashed his teeth at his unpopular nephew, Erlang God, and other dandy's second generation of big trouble in the Peach Club, The nepotism shears are still in disorder. They secretly hand a note to the Tathagata, parole Sun Wukong, and design a bridge to "learn the scriptures in the west and make contributions through sin". Tianting cannot go back. Go to a large unit like the Buddha World to evaluate the title of "fight against the Buddha", and set a successful example of personal struggle for the lower world
02 The workplace ceiling is a little boring
Li Changgeng, who guessed and understood what he wanted, deserves to be a veteran of the fairyland workplace, and is much more experienced than Guanyin, who doesn't eat people's fireworks.
Lao Li was also able to touch the pulse of the leaders of the fairyland and the Buddhist world, so he was very attentive and cautious in everything. He was waiting for the completion of the tasks assigned by the leaders of his own unit and the co construction unit, and the promotion of the "Golden Immortal" with a word from the senior management! Such a bureau level researcher has endured for many years.
Li Changgeng, who is busy with his work and still does not forget to practice and meditate, should have reached the realm of golden immortals early. Even Guanyin can feel the powerful aura of Lao Li, but it is just a short chance. If you want to succeed in heaven, fate and fate are the same.
It is necessary to maintain good relations in all aspects and have insight and price. The Queen Mother with the same level and seniority as the Jade Emperor suddenly stepped in and insisted that the golden toad in the Guanghan Palace replace the yellow robed monster arranged in advance and become Xuanzang's third apprentice.
Lao Li has become accustomed to the "Black Swan Event", which is an extraneous event. What if Chang'e, who is an entertainer in the entertainment industry and keeps gossiping, calls the Queen Mother Goddess "Ganma"? The three legged Toad rank in her unit is just a grass-roots civil servant ("Rolling Curtain General") responsible for the Jade Emperor's honor guard, and Master Li should also take it seriously.
03 It's boring to cultivate the "Golden Immortal" realm
Li Changgeng, who cultivated his moral character to avoid "cause and effect", was entangled in the cause and effect of fairyland and human world repeatedly before his realm and rank leaped.
The second slogan on the cover of "Taibaijinxing is a bit boring" is also very real: "Many human obsessions we cannot understand, but it does not mean that they do not exist."
One of the hidden lines in the book is the six eared macaque that has been entangled with Taibai Venus and seeking justice. Cheng Yaojin, who was once a monkey in Huaguo Mountain and Shuilian Cave, recommended six eared macaques to learn magic from Bodhi, but Sun Wukong took the lead. The former's survival track was completely changed.
Six Ears has been reporting and accusing Monkey King of "academic fraud" and impersonation for five hundred years. Unfortunately, there is no way to go up in heaven. Li Changgeng, one of the chief planners of "Journey to the West", is busy with script creation, and does not want to disclose the dark material of leading the role of Monkey King in the development of the plot. After all, he is the second most secretive person to become a Buddha in the fairyland and Buddhist circles, second only to Jin Chanzi Xuanzang. This case has been suppressed again and again.
Until Liu Er accidentally appeared on the set and fought with Monkey King, this desperate and crazy soul was killed by the Buddhist bodyguards in the process of suicide attack on Tathagata, ending a life of repeated torture by obsession.
However, what the six eared macaques didn't know was that the impostor Sun Wukong robbed him of his "academic degree", but it didn't succeed.
As an outstanding talent in the lower bound, in the process of job hunting in the Tianting Fairy World, the arrogant, free and unrestrained Monkey Head, who did not take the leadership seriously, was soon sent to the Logistics Vehicle Management Office as Bi Ma Wen. Because he contradicted the direct leadership of the department, he was transferred to the Pantao Garden, the special base for the Pantao Conference, as the head of the garden. The Jade Emperor was also afraid of Sun's troubles, and approved Sun Wukong to take the title of "Great Sage of Heaven".
He had all the ability to understand the universe, but because he had no access and bad relations with leaders, no one applauded him, and he was soon harmonized by the system.
The idle and marginalized Monkey King quickly became a walking corpse, wandering around all day, being used by the devil in the unit and the Erlang God of the second generation of officials, breaking the rules of heaven, being jailed and failing.
The obsession killed both the six eared macaques and the Monkey King. The tragic fate of the lower bound migrant workers deeply touched Li Changgeng.
Do Taoism (fairyland) do nothing, and Buddhism (Buddhist world) stand aloof, can their God's perspective still see the specific things in the lower world?
This is the source of Taibai Venus' final understanding and promotion of the "Golden Immortal": the courage to take on their own responsibilities, and the right and wrong are always empty.
Cultivating oneself is not to avoid, but to face calmly; Tao Dharma and Buddha Dharma tell us the essence of existence. No matter what the result is, it will be a thing of the past.
Inspired by his sense of responsibility and common sense, Xuanzang, who had been stripped of his shell, returned to the Tang Dynasty to translate scriptures and preach. Sun Wukong, who had redeemed himself and reincarnated into a six eared macaque, asked for immortals. Li Changgeng turned into a "banished immortal" and Li Bai recited poems and practiced Buddhism
