一体真如转落尘,合和四相复修身——试论《西游记》的主要精神

A Discussion of Dominant Spirit in the Journey to the West

《西游记》中唐僧、悟空、八戒、沙僧各自代表了一个人的几个不同方面。根据小说创作的思想文化背景、作者的创作意图和作品的客观效果,再结合小说所塑造的人物形象间的矛盾冲突,我们可以得出小说的主要精神乃是通过描写师徒四人西天取经的故事,写出了一个人悟道修真、修持心性的心路历程,即一个人以理想、信念为支柱,以认识、行动为手段,战胜内心欲念,抵制外界引诱,克服面对困难产生的犹豫、退缩情绪,最终达到"即心即佛"的境界,这样一个内部思想矛盾斗争的过程。

The four characters in the Journey to the West, Tang Xuanzang, Wukong, Bajie, and Shaseng represent several different aspects of a single individual. In light of the cultural context, the author＇s i , respectively ntention, the novel＇s realistic effect as well as the contradictions and conflicts between the characters, we can conclude that the novel＇s dominant spirit is, through narrating the story in which the master and his three disciples went to the West to learn Sutras, to reveal the psychological experience of the individual＇s cultivating virtues and to disclose the interior ideological struggle to achieve the final state of ＂Heart is Buddha＂ supported by his ideal and faith, by means of understanding and practice to fight against interior desires, to resist exterior seductions and to deal with hesitation and difficulties.