Tang Monk went west to obtain scriptures. Why did Tathagata find three demons to be Tang Monk’s disciples?

"Journey to the West" is the childhood memory of each of us, and in this story, Tang Monk has three apprentices with powerful magic powers. They all need to protect Tang Monk and go to the West to obtain the true scriptures. And we all know that these three people were actually monsters before.

The most interesting thing is that these three people were originally high-ranking people, but they made big mistakes at the Peach Fair and were demoted to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor. Then the Tathagata Buddha of the Western Heaven asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to find the Buddhist scripture collector, and ordered him to find three disciples for the Buddhist scripture collector. Moreover, the recruitment criteria for apprentices are that they must have great supernatural powers, followed by demons who are disobedient to discipline, so Guanyin found these three people.

From their names, we can see that the three of them are of the Wu generation, and they are Wukong, Wu, Neng and Wujing. And the reason why we are enlightened generation is because the journey to the west relies on cultivation and self-enlightenment.

When a person who seeks scriptures reaches the state of Wukong in his heart, it means that he has broken himself and reached the state of annihilation of the mind and all kinds of annihilation. The three disciples of Tang Seng were originally demons, which means that they could not practice spiritually because they had distracting thoughts in their hearts.

And we can see that first of all, people like Sun Wukong are a very troublesome figure, but if the Buddha directly eliminated him, it would violate the teachings of Buddhism and lose a natural monkey. , so it was the best way to let him escort Tang Monk to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Bajie was demoted to earth, ostensibly because he molested Chang'e, but in fact it may have been because he violated the precepts, because gods and Buddhas have one thing in common, that is, they want to abandon their children's personal relationships. You have to have great love in your heart, but Bajie just fell in love with this word.

Although Sha Monk is the most inconspicuous person in the entire team, he is the most indispensable person, because his role is more like a coolie. Moreover, he has the position of bodyguard and is calm. Such a person is indispensable.