The six-eared macaque is the animal nature of Sun Wukong, representing the lawless, arrogant and unruly Monkey King.
Sun Wukong is a symbol of his own Buddha nature, representing the fighting holy Buddha who took refuge in our Buddha and went to the West to learn scriptures.
Of course my answer is not to say that Sun Wukong is a psychopath. Rather than having two Sun Wukongs, I am more willing to believe that the six-eared macaque is another clone of Sun Wukong. After all, for Wukong, who can conjure countless monkeys wearing tight hoops and holding iron rods by blowing a hair, conjuring a six-eared macaque is not like playing.
The battle between Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque is inevitable. From making trouble in the Heavenly Palace to being suppressed for five hundred years, from embarking on the path of seeking Buddhist scriptures to becoming a Buddha soon. Along the way to the west, Tang Monk endured hardships in order to obtain Buddhist scriptures. As for Sun Wukong, it was the process of transformation from monkey to human and then to Buddha. So the further we read the book "Journey to the West", the more we feel that Sun Wukong has changed, becoming more conventional, no longer passionate, and becoming ordinary. It's like every step of the journey to the west is like a millstone, polishing the edges and corners that Wukong once had.
Is the Wukong who once caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace dead? Has the Monkey King, the Monkey King who once conquered the heavens alone, changed? I don't think so, it's just that he changed his name to Six-eared Macaque. So he has the same tightening curse, so he has the same golden cudgel, so it is difficult for the world to distinguish between the real and fake Monkey King, so even Ting Ting who knows the truth can only remain unspeakable.
After all, a person’s pros and cons are two sides of the same coin, and no outsider can distinguish them.
Everyone knows the final outcome. Sun Wukong killed the six-eared macaque with a stick in front of the Buddha. From that moment on, Sun Wukong's animal nature was forcibly dispersed by himself, leaving only the fighting saint Buddha who had lost his animal nature. Accompany Tang Monk on his journey to the west, retrieve the true scriptures, and then become a Buddha and a saint, and live in heaven forever.
I just wonder if Wukong will be in a corner of the heaven, looking at the falling clouds, and thinking of a place called Huaguo Mountain.