Research into the Willpower Implication of the Golden Cudgel from the Perspective of Philosophy of Nature of Mind
From the perspective of ancient philosophy of nature of mind and in combination with the sym-bolic significance of Wukong,we can conclude that the golden cudgel is the symbol of human willpower based on the basic characteristics of its spontaneous changes and timely indistinct appearance.The identity change from demon monkey to practitioner leads to the opposite functions of advantages and disadvantages of Wukong's golden cudgel,which essentially reflects the human difference between good and evil under strict constraints or not,and the different evolution of the willpower from unruliness to fixed force.The establishment of the willpower's relationship between Wukong and the golden cudgel is of a great significance for interpreting the re-lated description of the golden cudgel,especially revealing the fixed force's practice effect of the direction guidance and power supply as well as its restraint of evil.The repeated writing of Wukong's failure to subdue monsters and the plot of the golden cudgel's loss are a real mirror of the evil defeating the people because of the weak willpower in the course of practice,and the story creation of Wukong seeking help from Bodhisattva and the other immortals is based on Confucian concept of benevolence.After his becoming a Buddha,Wukong's e-vil has gone,so there is no need for the golden cudgel to exist and it returns to emptiness with the hoop.
philosophy of nature of mindgolden cudgelwillpower
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