Maybe it's because in the past, China's movie, TV and video game production capabilities were very limited. Those good contents in the past were hard to be made into good works to present to the audience.
Western media has often downplayed aspects of China for many years. The more you learn about ancient Chinese culture and history, the clearer it becomes that media in the West, Japan, Korea, and other countries oftentimes shape narratives to avoid exposing stolen truths.
Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to serve as a Buddha and teach us about these lovely things! I appreciate your efforts as a humble and ignorant person from the west. Please take care :)
@@vulturepeak Not all Prince is Son of King or Emperor, Prince is a rank of Feudal time wich is lower than a Emperor or King but still a member of the court sometime is a Son of a King or Emperor, Royal cousin, or some time - a man rule a small Kingdom. For example Prince Albert II is ruler of a small country name Principality of Monaco, his rank is Prince not King. But if you translate 王 as King, those 4天王 must have their own Kingdom, each one have their own, not to mention 4天王 function is Court's Generals.
@@nguyenquanghung2344 it's more of a cultural difference.... King is not the top, but the Emperor is. There is no concept of Emperor until China was unified. There is also a difference between 王 and 皇. The absolute Emperor who lead the generation is a 皇帝, while 王 usually is a local king. the emperor is called 皇上 (emperor at the top), but there is no such thing as 王上. 帝王 is also a term that was used to explain some strong high level king who is above all other kings. It's more like 皇 is the Fed and the other is the state govener. There is a very specific word to describe generals, which is 将军. You would NOT describe the 4 heavenly kings as a 将军. it's not even close. 将军 are military generals who leads armies. The 4 are literal 天王 (heavenly kings) who are powerful beings themselves.
I have two questions. Can you explain what you mean when Arhat’s have no sense of self? This concept doesn’t fully make sense to me yet. Also, by the end of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong attains Buddhahood, but at the start of Black Myth Wukong, Sun Wukong still has the desire to return to Flower Fruit Mountain to live with his monkey brethren. The way I understand Buddhahood, to become a Buddha is to be free of worldly and material desire. Why does Sun Wukong challenge the Celestial Court at the beginning of Black Myth Wukong? Is there a reason Game Science gave for this story decision? Is the reason based on Journey to the West? Or is there something about Buddhism that I am misunderstanding.
Your questions are very profound. I will try to answer them. Question one: All living beings have self-attachment. They think that this body is me, and that this thing that can think and feel emotions is me. This is self-awareness. If you still can't understand, you can try switching to a god's perspective. For example, your name is John. Try to observe yourself from a god's perspective. Now John is hungry. Now John doesn't want to cook. John is very anxious now. John is looking at his mobile phone. You can regard John as a character you operate in a video game. When you observe from such an angle, a question may arise in your heart: Why am I John? What is the relationship between John and me? When this question appears in your heart, you become aware of the self. Self-awareness is an illusion, the root of suffering, and also the reason for reincarnation. If there is no self-awareness, if you don't think that this body is me and that this soul that can think and feel is me, you will no longer suffer and will no longer be reincarnated. An arhat is a being that has reached this level. Due to many professional terms that cannot be translated and are difficult to explain in English, I can only explain to this extent with my current ability. Question two: "Journey to the West" and "Black Myth" are both stories. They do not fully and truly reflect the doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism. According to the doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism, gods, immortals, and even yaoguai are all beings with very high realms. Their greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance are all very weak. If you scold them, hit them, slander them, or insult them, they will not care. The Buddha is at an even higher level than these beings. But if all the characters in the story are like this, there will be no conflict and the story will be boring. Moreover, the author of "Journey to the West" is conveying three layers of information through this story: The first layer is a fantasy story. The second layer is metaphorically about social relations and political struggles. The third layer is hiding the secrets of Buddhist and Taoist cultivation, that is, the method of immortality, in the story.
@@chinesewei Thank you very much. I understand much more clearly now. Because Journey to the West, and by extension, Black Myth Wukong, is a fantasy story, the rules of Buddhism and Taoism have been changed for the sake of telling an exciting story. Even though the concepts have deep historical and cultural significance, the story is still a story. I understand that many concepts in the story cannot be translated perfectly into English, but your explanation makes a lot of sense and is intuitive to understand. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions!
22:38 after Buddha Sakyamuni Dharma teaching extinct, the next Sammasambuddha: Maitreya appear to reboot the Dharma in BMW, Maitreya still become as Bodhissatva, form as a Kid
@@WirelessKFCbefore Sakyamuni, theres also several Sammasambuddha which appear 31 to 91 kalpa ago and maybe after Maitrya appear, He continue leak who the next Sammasambuda name 1 kalpa = 4.3 billions year earth age = 4.5 billions year so in Buddhism also believe cosmical which multiple living planets, and all mortal things (from god, human, animal, hell) keep life cycle rebirth, even after planet earth ends, will continues to another planet in Buddhism teach, even Heaven Gods is a mortal have life range thousands to a billion year
Whether Maitreya is the Messiah or not I don't know because we haven't read the Bible in depth. But there must be a lot of imposters posing as Maitreya or Messiah. In the history of the Chinese people there have been a number of people claiming to be Maitreya who raised armies and rebelled or organized cults.
in my language, Vietnamese, long just mean dragon so there is no differentiate even though the word was borrow from chinese, if it a Long then it a dragon to us :))
Dragons are those guys with wings that breathe fire, and in Western mythology, they're badass. But loong are good guys in China, and in Vietnam, right?
@@chinesewei due to chinese influence, our image of a dragon have always been the loong but in term of language, we don't differentiate them, to us loong = dragon. There is 2 way to write the word dragon in vietnamese: 1. Long, a Sino-Vietnamese word, a direct loan word from chinese Loong 2. Rồng, a vietnamese word for dragon but in vietnamese, Long = Rồng so to us Loong is a dragon. Due to chinese influence, we see Loong or dragon to us almost the same as the chinese, maybe even higher status than chinese as in our myth about the origin of vietnamese people, it said we are Descendants of Dragon and Immortal.
1 have a question. If Sun Wukong can travel 一萬八千裡 (that's about 29,000km, correct me if I'm wrong) in a single somersault & strong enough to carry 2 heaven mountains on his shoulders, why can't he just carry his whole team (heck, forget his team, just carry his master), do a 1/10th somersault & reach India (that's about 3,000km from China), have a tea, get the sutras & somersault back in no time? Save a lot of hassle & time not to mention bypass alot of monster too. 🤔🤔🤔
1. One explanation is that the shifu has a mortal body and can't be carried by spiritual power (but i think that's BS because yaoguais can abduct him all the time) 2. Another explanation is that the buddha wants the journey to be on foot so that the team can go through the 81 trials as planned
@vulturepeak Your 2 answers are basically correct. There is an episode in Journey to the West where the Tang Monk needs to cross a very wide river and asks Piggyback to carry him across. Piggy said, “Master's mortal flesh and bones are as heavy as Mount Tai, how can I, a cloud-driver, afford to carry him? I'll be coming out with a serialized in-depth look at the Journey to the West, and you'll hear about that. Also, the Buddhist scriptures have described the weight of various classes of beings. It seems that the higher the rank the lighter the weight of the beings, for example, the Four Heavenly Kings weigh only 41.76 grams.
My comment might be inaccurate, and here is my explaination: It is true that Wukong is unable to transport them using 一萬八千裡 as Tang Monk is mortal. Another reason is the true essence of The Journey To The West isn't to get the scripture, but to experience hardship and countless meaningful stories during the journey.
So Jade Emperor started cultivating about 226.8 million years ago, which was the age of dinosaurs. In other words, back then he was probably a dinosaur! I wonder which type?
He didn't necessarily practice on Earth. It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that one can cultivate in all the six paths, for example as a ghost or an animal. And our world has appeared and been destroyed many times, and after the destruction of the world, the beings of this world are born in another world, such as another dimension or planet, and when this world appears again, they are born again in this world.
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Very helpful! I was bombarded with this new universe just recently! How could something like this hidden from us? Insane.
Maybe it's because in the past, China's movie, TV and video game production capabilities were very limited. Those good contents in the past were hard to be made into good works to present to the audience.
Western media has often downplayed aspects of China for many years. The more you learn about ancient Chinese culture and history, the clearer it becomes that media in the West, Japan, Korea, and other countries oftentimes shape narratives to avoid exposing stolen truths.
heeee i thought vietnamese very close with chinese culture as you guys has the same root
@@Neuvari It just never stood out to me until it suddenly got recognized by everyone… Perhaps I was too careless to see :v
@Neuvari Yes, I find that my Vietnamese students have the easiest time learning Chinese.
Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to serve as a Buddha and teach us about these lovely things! I appreciate your efforts as a humble and ignorant person from the west. Please take care :)
谢谢
7:32 about King, they can be called as Prince for 王, under the Emperor's 帝 rules
That's good. Good translations really need to be very proficient in both languages to be achieved.
Prince is 王子，son of a king
王 is just king
@@vulturepeak Not all Prince is Son of King or Emperor, Prince is a rank of Feudal time wich is lower than a Emperor or King but still a member of the court sometime is a Son of a King or Emperor, Royal cousin, or some time - a man rule a small Kingdom. For example Prince Albert II is ruler of a small country name Principality of Monaco, his rank is Prince not King. But if you translate 王 as King, those 4天王 must have their own Kingdom, each one have their own, not to mention 4天王 function is Court's Generals.
王 is king. It is like Old China has many local kings but the one who control all the kings is the emperor
@@nguyenquanghung2344 it's more of a cultural difference.... King is not the top, but the Emperor is. There is no concept of Emperor until China was unified. There is also a difference between 王 and 皇. The absolute Emperor who lead the generation is a 皇帝, while 王 usually is a local king. the emperor is called 皇上 (emperor at the top), but there is no such thing as 王上. 帝王 is also a term that was used to explain some strong high level king who is above all other kings. It's more like 皇 is the Fed and the other is the state govener.
There is a very specific word to describe generals, which is 将军. You would NOT describe the 4 heavenly kings as a 将军. it's not even close. 将军 are military generals who leads armies. The 4 are literal 天王 (heavenly kings) who are powerful beings themselves.
The graviational field near the Celestial Court must be strong for its time to run slower.
the Celestial Court seems to be on Miller planet from the movie Interstellar，right？
I have two questions. Can you explain what you mean when Arhat’s have no sense of self? This concept doesn’t fully make sense to me yet.
Also, by the end of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong attains Buddhahood, but at the start of Black Myth Wukong, Sun Wukong still has the desire to return to Flower Fruit Mountain to live with his monkey brethren. The way I understand Buddhahood, to become a Buddha is to be free of worldly and material desire. Why does Sun Wukong challenge the Celestial Court at the beginning of Black Myth Wukong? Is there a reason Game Science gave for this story decision? Is the reason based on Journey to the West? Or is there something about Buddhism that I am misunderstanding.
Your questions are very profound. I will try to answer them.
Question one:
All living beings have self-attachment. They think that this body is me, and that this thing that can think and feel emotions is me.
This is self-awareness. If you still can't understand, you can try switching to a god's perspective. For example, your name is John. Try to observe yourself from a god's perspective. Now John is hungry. Now John doesn't want to cook. John is very anxious now. John is looking at his mobile phone. You can regard John as a character you operate in a video game. When you observe from such an angle, a question may arise in your heart: Why am I John? What is the relationship between John and me? When this question appears in your heart, you become aware of the self. Self-awareness is an illusion, the root of suffering, and also the reason for reincarnation. If there is no self-awareness, if you don't think that this body is me and that this soul that can think and feel is me, you will no longer suffer and will no longer be reincarnated. An arhat is a being that has reached this level.
Due to many professional terms that cannot be translated and are difficult to explain in English, I can only explain to this extent with my current ability.
Question two:
"Journey to the West" and "Black Myth" are both stories. They do not fully and truly reflect the doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism. According to the doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism, gods, immortals, and even yaoguai are all beings with very high realms. Their greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance are all very weak. If you scold them, hit them, slander them, or insult them, they will not care. The Buddha is at an even higher level than these beings. But if all the characters in the story are like this, there will be no conflict and the story will be boring. Moreover, the author of "Journey to the West" is conveying three layers of information through this story: The first layer is a fantasy story. The second layer is metaphorically about social relations and political struggles. The third layer is hiding the secrets of Buddhist and Taoist cultivation, that is, the method of immortality, in the story.
@@chinesewei Thank you very much. I understand much more clearly now. Because Journey to the West, and by extension, Black Myth Wukong, is a fantasy story, the rules of Buddhism and Taoism have been changed for the sake of telling an exciting story. Even though the concepts have deep historical and cultural significance, the story is still a story.
I understand that many concepts in the story cannot be translated perfectly into English, but your explanation makes a lot of sense and is intuitive to understand. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions!
👏👏👏
22:38 after Buddha Sakyamuni Dharma teaching extinct, the next Sammasambuddha: Maitreya appear to reboot the Dharma
in BMW, Maitreya still become as Bodhissatva, form as a Kid
is it a coincidence that Maitreya sounds like Messiah and Mithra and all have similar role a a "saviour to come"
@@WirelessKFCbefore Sakyamuni, theres also several Sammasambuddha which appear 31 to 91 kalpa ago
and maybe after Maitrya appear, He continue leak who the next Sammasambuda name
1 kalpa = 4.3 billions year
earth age = 4.5 billions year
so in Buddhism also believe cosmical which multiple living planets, and all mortal things (from god, human, animal, hell) keep life cycle rebirth, even after planet earth ends, will continues to another planet
in Buddhism teach, even Heaven Gods is a mortal have life range thousands to a billion year
Whether Maitreya is the Messiah or not I don't know because we haven't read the Bible in depth. But there must be a lot of imposters posing as Maitreya or Messiah. In the history of the Chinese people there have been a number of people claiming to be Maitreya who raised armies and rebelled or organized cults.
Yeah, you know a lot.
in my language, Vietnamese, long just mean dragon so there is no differentiate even though the word was borrow from chinese, if it a Long then it a dragon to us :))
Dragons are those guys with wings that breathe fire, and in Western mythology, they're badass. But loong are good guys in China, and in Vietnam, right?
@@chinesewei due to chinese influence, our image of a dragon have always been the loong but in term of language, we don't differentiate them, to us loong = dragon. There is 2 way to write the word dragon in vietnamese:
1. Long, a Sino-Vietnamese word, a direct loan word from chinese Loong
2. Rồng, a vietnamese word for dragon
but in vietnamese, Long = Rồng so to us Loong is a dragon.
Due to chinese influence, we see Loong or dragon to us almost the same as the chinese, maybe even higher status than chinese as in our myth about the origin of vietnamese people, it said we are Descendants of Dragon and Immortal.
1 have a question. If Sun Wukong can travel 一萬八千裡 (that's about 29,000km, correct me if I'm wrong) in a single somersault & strong enough to carry 2 heaven mountains on his shoulders, why can't he just carry his whole team (heck, forget his team, just carry his master), do a 1/10th somersault & reach India (that's about 3,000km from China), have a tea, get the sutras & somersault back in no time? Save a lot of hassle & time not to mention bypass alot of monster too. 🤔🤔🤔
1. One explanation is that the shifu has a mortal body and can't be carried by spiritual power (but i think that's BS because yaoguais can abduct him all the time)
2. Another explanation is that the buddha wants the journey to be on foot so that the team can go through the 81 trials as planned
Because the heavenly court forbade it so the whole group has to walk on foot. Tangsanzhang must travel on foot.
@vulturepeak
Your 2 answers are basically correct. There is an episode in Journey to the West where the Tang Monk needs to cross a very wide river and asks Piggyback to carry him across. Piggy said, “Master's mortal flesh and bones are as heavy as Mount Tai, how can I, a cloud-driver, afford to carry him? I'll be coming out with a serialized in-depth look at the Journey to the West, and you'll hear about that. Also, the Buddhist scriptures have described the weight of various classes of beings. It seems that the higher the rank the lighter the weight of the beings, for example, the Four Heavenly Kings weigh only 41.76 grams.
My comment might be inaccurate, and here is my explaination:
It is true that Wukong is unable to transport them using 一萬八千裡 as Tang Monk is mortal. Another reason is the true essence of The Journey To The West isn't to get the scripture, but to experience hardship and countless meaningful stories during the journey.
guys it is 十萬八千里, not 一萬八千里
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你的解说，帮我了解不少道教，佛教的一切，我有几个疑问。。
第四章：为何蜘蛛精的四妹将会炼成丹？
神仙真的不是长身不老吗？ 那么说神仙也是会死的，对吗？
人和动物可以通过吸收宇宙的能量炁，在体内结成丹。丹的能量达到一定程度就能成仙。丹的能量决定仙的寿命。所以神仙也是会死的，神仙的死叫“天人五衰”。神仙只有继续修炼，或者服用仙丹，才能避免天人五衰。和四妹一样，悟空在大闹天宫被捕后，也被放进炼丹炉。神仙们想把它炼成丹送给玉帝，但是没有成功。
@@chinesewei 谢谢，你的解说，我小时以为，神仙没办法杀掉悟空，之所以才要用火把他烧死，不知道原来是要炼成丹送给玉帝，看来我必须重看西游来了解更多了，🙇
So Jade Emperor started cultivating about 226.8 million years ago, which was the age of dinosaurs. In other words, back then he was probably a dinosaur! I wonder which type?
He didn't necessarily practice on Earth. It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that one can cultivate in all the six paths, for example as a ghost or an animal. And our world has appeared and been destroyed many times, and after the destruction of the world, the beings of this world are born in another world, such as another dimension or planet, and when this world appears again, they are born again in this world.
孫悟空拒絕了天堂看顧仙桃和天馬這兩份工作，請辭後下地獄搶了地獄王手上的生死簿，塗掉了他的死亡日期，再跳入海裏大戰蝦兵蟹將搶走海龍王的定海神針就是金箍棒再衝上天堂和天兵天將大戰
对，只是顺序反了，他先抢了定海神针，再改了生死簿，然后去养马，第二次上天是看管桃园，最好才造反