February 16, 2025Leave a comment I. Original Text TheNewly Annotated Journey to the West(Xinshuo Xiyouji, 新說西遊記, 1749) by Zhang Shushen (張書紳) is one of three popular editions of JTTW that circulated during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and overshadowedthe original. [1] It contains ...
1.2. Explanation Zhu was originally a lazy, aimless man, but he encountered a celestial who told him to mend his ways, or else he would be reborn in thelower three Buddhist realmsof hell, hungry ghosts, or animals, making it impossible for him to hear the Buddha’s teachings (an example...
You alone in a room for hours at the time learning in ways you never have done before. It hits your personality and your doubts. You start second-guessing. Is what I am learning now, really what I want to learn? Do I want to use it in the future? Can I see myself working with...
, the novel is a separate work that was published nearly 30 years after JTTW. Look at this piece as a fun “What if?” Fig. 1 – Monkey’s headstone (larger version). I. Possible Ways Ch. 44 of Investiture mentions ten magical array traps that rely on primordial energies, destructive...
In this experience, whole other worlds and ways of being in the world emerged. Listening to the spaces between seeing and the challenges of seeing, knowing and not knowing; leaning into the voices speaking from below the surface, the half inaudible voices–what might we sense nudging at our ...
I am unhappy about that, but it’s just the way this life evolves and shifts and sways. Some of you have asked about Blake, where he is these days. One of you even asked under the guise of concern that I am “not getting enough cocksucking to sustain me” during this period of ...
As God leads, I will continue to share our story in whatever ways He sets before me. However, this blog has never really been about Patrick. It has always been a part of a much larger story…God’s story. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:...
As God leads, I will continue to share our story in whatever ways He sets before me. However, this blog has never really been about Patrick. It has always been a part of a much larger story…God’s story. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:...
Barr’s simple writing style – the story is told in short, often naive and startling honest sentences – is beautifully effective. Flora has to order the things around her – in her head, in her life – in simple ways, and filter straight through to the important things. She has no ti...
I believe that the two story cycles influenced JTTW in at least five ways: 1) Jupiter-Dongfang Shuo and the white ape stealing special fruit connects said produce with the Queen Mother’s immortal peaches; 2) the fruit being stolen by a white ape with divine longevity and the ability to ...