What if you have eternal life?

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What if you have eternal life?

This is the question from a Chinese philosophical story  "Journey To the West":   "That if you have acquired eternal life,  what will you do?"

And it is possible.

If we put life into a higher observing point,  we can see life is a chain of unending line that the line is composed by  numerous lives.   And you can also put it this way:  "If you are Sun Wu Kong and you will not die, then what are you going to do?"

It is interesting.

If everybody will not die,   what are they going to do?

And the question might put it this way:

What is the purpose of human beings?

What is the purpose of my own life?

What is the purpose of me ?

What is the purpose of me...... and my friends?

It is important.

Because if you have a purpose,  you will work for it.

If you do not have a purpose,   still you will be going for it.   Because you are being pushed(?)

What is it?

It is consciousness......

because,  you are the eternal.  

..

What does Sun Wukong pursue?

What does Sun Wukong pursue?

...... ...... ...... 

(Question No. 7695 2010 0311 Thursday)

Journey to the West begins with a very basic question. The question is: "Life is short. What should we do?"

But, the words in the book would not be written like this. Because, this book is for people of different levels. The general public reads stories.  But friends will see great meanings.

From the story, Sun Wukong just thought that life is short and very short.

He suddenly felt a sense of sadness, and then: He started a pursuit that goes through the whole planet. And the so-called "the whole planet" :  There are actually four continents: East Victory holy land, West Niu He Chau,  South Jim Zhou, and North Qiluzhou. These four major provinces are Buddhist terms, the author of the book borrowed them.

What does Sun Wukong wants to pursue?  The book says that what he wants to pursue is "Long life". Anyway, the author has given Sun Wukong a reason to search.

What does Sun Wukong pursue? Is it really "eternal life"? The author is worring if we don't know that he had already been answered  in the book. The story says that actually:  Sun Wu kong

(The Emptiness Awared One) has already obtained longevity. He has already gone to hell, And he had corrected the "Book of life and death".  His name was deleted by himself.  He not only deleted his own name, but also all his monkey friends.....

In the hell's roster, there is no name for him. He has already transcended the life circle, he doesn't need to queue up to die.

This means that he has already obtained "eternal life". And he has already obtained the "long life" for his followers, they have all been given a lifetime. 

At that time, he had not yet known Monk Tong(唐僧), nor had he yet known his job is to explore the West, but he has been granted a "eternal life".

What else does he want to pursue, if he has been granted to live forever?

And we, if we have the same confidence that we humans are super and we are all immortal, what else should we pursue?

How much time should take to think about it? 

*(A joke:  Would one minute be enough?)

孫悟空追求甚麼？

孫悟空追求甚麼？

………………………………………………*李察

(問到底 No.7695   2010 0311     Thursday)

　

　

　　《西遊記》是從一個很基本的問題開始的。這問

題就是：「人生苦短，我們應該做甚麼？」

　　但是，書中的文字，是不會這樣寫的。因為，這

本書，是給不同程度的人看的。一般人看的是故事，

但喜歡思考的朋友，卻會看到其中的微言大義。

　

　　從故事看，孫悟空只不過是想到，人生苦短，很

快就要輪迴轉生，他忽然感覺悲哀起來，於是，就開

始了一個走遍全個地球的追尋。而所謂「全個地球」，

在書中其實是四大洲：東勝神洲，西牛賀洲，南贍部

洲，北俱蘆洲。這四大部洲是佛教名詞，被《西遊記》

的作者借用了。

　

　　孫悟空想追尋甚麼呢？書中說，他想追尋的是「長

生」。而喜歡看神怪故事的小朋友，也全不當這是一

回事了，總之，作者已經給了孫悟空一個理由：一個

終生努力不懈去追求的理由。

　　

　　孫悟空追求的，當真是「長生」麼？作者怕我們

不了解，早早已經在書中解答了。故事說，其實孫悟

空一早已經得到長生。他已經到過地獄，把生死簿中

自己的名字塗去了。他不但塗去自己的名字，還把所

有他認識的猴子朋友，名字都塗去了。

　

　　地獄名冊中，是沒有他的名字的。他已經超脫輪

迴了，他不用排隊送死了。

　　這就是說，他一早已經得到了「長生」。連帶所

有他的追隨者們，都已經得到了「長生」。如果讀書

的朋友聯想力再豐富一些，你可以這樣說的：任何投

入去看《西遊記》的朋友，都已經在事實上得到了「長

生」。而孫悟空遊地獄的情節，是在往西天之前的。

其時，他尚未認識唐僧，尚未知道需要去西方探索，

但是，他已經得到長生了。

　

　　他還要追求甚麼呢？

　　

　　而我們，如果我們也有這樣的信心：我們都是超

脫輪迴的，我們都是永生的，我們還要追求甚麼？

　　這一個問題，應該花多少時間去想想？一分鐘，

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