(Qing Dynasty) Wu Yuanzi Liu Yiming's "Preface to the Original Purpose of Journey to the West"

"Journey to the West" was written by Changchun Qiu Zhenjun, the founder of Longmen Sect in the early Yuan Dynasty. His book explains the principle of three religions and one family, and teaches the way of cultivating both life and life. As the saying goes, secrets are hidden; jokes and jokes reveal inner thoughts. What the ancients did not dare to teach, the true king will teach; what the ancients did not dare to express, the true king will express. Each chapter is written from the perspective of personal practice; every word and idea is expressed in real practice. The key points of creation and the secrets of cultivation are all clearly defined and prepared. It can be said that we uproot the roots of heaven and crawl into ghost caves, open the doors of life and close the doors of the dead. This is actually the source of returning to the origin and the ladder of returning to the roots and restoring life. Those who understand can become saints in Confucianism, Buddhas in Buddhism, and immortals in Taoism. There is no need to walk a hundred and eighty thousand roads, but the Tripitaka Sutra can be obtained; there is no need to suffer the eighty-one hardships, but a somersault cloud can pass; there is no need to use the method of subduing demons and monsters, but a golden hoop can complete it. Gai Xitian obtained scriptures and performed the samadhi of "Lotus" and "Vajra"; the four white horses revealed the heavenly secrets of "He", "Luo" and "Book of Changes"; Jiujiu returned to his true nature and understood the "Shen Tong" and "Wuzhen" Mysterious; Thousands of demons and strange things, trying to destroy the wild works of outsiders; Having experienced foreign countries, it refers to the down-to-earth projects. Tripitaka takes three disciples and goes to the Western Heaven. Those who can fulfill their destiny must achieve their destiny. The three disciples return to Tripitaka and achieve positive results. Those who can fulfill their destiny should cultivate their destiny. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, he went to the West and returned to the East in the fourteenth year. Zhengxia has the secret of restoration; the Tathagata created the Tripitaka Sutra, and the Five Saints took one Tibetan scripture and handed it down to the world. The three and five have the magical power of unification. The whole point is this. It is beneficial to the holy way and inspires later scholars. Isn't it superficial? Wang Xiangxu, a Taoist in Daoyi, failed to achieve this meaning and made private guesses. He only took one and a half slips and completed the whole purpose with his own thoughts, and added many joking and arrogant words in the footnotes. Hey! Once this explanation comes out, it not only buries the author's painstaking efforts, but also greatly misleads future generations of people with lofty ideals, causing thousands of people who don't know what "Journey to the West" was written to begin with. Later, Cai and Jin also followed his words and appended and annotated them. Is it possible to describe the damage caused by this? After this, it may be stubborn and empty, or it may be said to be clinging, or it may be suspected to be a boudoir, or it may be swallowed. The trunks, branches and leaves all have their own stories to tell, and they are made according to one's heart. They are so strange and strange that they cannot be enumerated. Confucius had to weep for Lin, and Bian He had to weep for jade. As soon as Mr. Chen's "True Interpretation" of Self-Enlightenment came out, all the falsehoods were obvious, and "Journey to the West", which had been buried for hundreds of years, was finally released. However, although its explanation is precise and its principles are clear, it is still not fully understood in the successive steps, so that the original intention cannot be fully expressed, it is not perfect, and it is not perfect. I don't want to be foolish now, I will think over and over again and explain in detail every time. For those who have already realized the truth of Yi Zi Dao, I will not repeat it here. That is, those things that are left but not explained, and those that are not explained in detail will be explained section by section, with clear layers and a coherent whole. If the hexagrams are included and the scriptures are cited, all of them must be noted. In order for scholars who are interested in life and life, they can clearly understand the origin and end of the journey. They know that "Journey to the West" is the three religions and one family. , then it is not what I planned.

On the third day of Wuyin and Mengqiu in the Qianlong reign, the simple and unsophisticated San people of Qiyun Mountain in Yuzhong realized that Yuanzi Liu Yiming had prefaced it.