菩薩勉行 Guanyin on the Way
行者見他催促請行，急縱身，出離海藏，駕著雲，別了龍王。正走，卻遇著南海菩薩。菩薩道：「孫悟空，你怎麼不受教誨，不保唐僧，來此處何幹？」慌得個行者在雲端裡施禮道：「向蒙菩薩善言，果有唐朝僧到，揭了壓帖，救了我命，跟他做了徒弟。他卻怪我兇頑，我才閃他一閃，如今就去保他也。」菩薩道：「趕早去，莫錯過了念頭。」言畢各回。行者见他催促请行，急纵身，出离海藏，驾著云，别了龙王。正走，却遇著南海菩萨。菩萨道：「孙悟空，你怎么不受教诲，不保唐僧，来此处何干？」慌得个行者在云端里施礼道：「向蒙菩萨善言，果有唐朝僧到，揭了压帖，救了我命，跟他做了徒弟。他却怪我凶顽，我才闪他一闪，如今就去保他也。」菩萨道：「赶早去，莫错过了念头。」言毕各回。
逐句解 Line by line
The Pilgrim, seeing him urge and press him to be off, sprang up in haste, left the sea-depths, mounted his cloud, and took leave of the Dragon King.
Wukong departs the palace resolved to return. 行者 reads 行 as xíng; 海藏 ("the sea-depths") reads 藏 as the noun cáng; 駕著 uses durative 著 (zhe).
As he went, he met the Bodhisattva of the Southern Sea.
On the way he encounters Guanyin herself. 遇著 uses durative 著 (zhe).
The Bodhisattva said, "Sun Wukong, why do you not accept instruction, why do you not protect the Tang monk — what are you doing here?"
The Bodhisattva's sharp questioning — a second, higher rebuke after the Dragon King's — tests his resolve. 教誨 reads 教 as jiào.
Flustered, the Pilgrim made his bow up in the clouds and said:
His fluster before her is comic and telling. 慌得 reads 得 as de; 行者 reads 行 as xíng.
"I was favoured, before, with the Bodhisattva's kind words; and indeed a monk of Tang came, lifted the sealing-slip, saved my life, and I became his disciple.
He recalls Guanyin's earlier counsel and his becoming the monk's disciple. 唐朝 reads 朝 as cháo.
But he took offence at my fierceness, so I dodged away from him a while; and now I am off to protect him."
His account is sheepish and self-excusing — he only "dodged away a while," and is now on his way back.
The Bodhisattva said, "Hurry along, then, and do not let the good intention slip." With that, each went their way.
Guanyin's brisk command speeds him on — unaware that she has already prepared the means (the fillet) to hold him fast. The timing is pointed: she has just come from giving Sanzang the spell.
A brief but pointed encounter bridges the two halves of the reconciliation. Having been moved by the Dragon King's parable to return of his own will, Wukong now meets Guanyin herself, who challenges him a second time. The doubled rebuke — first the Dragon King, then the Bodhisattva — underscores how much moral pressure is required to turn the proud monkey back.
The scene is quietly ironic on two counts. First, Wukong's sheepish self-excusing before Guanyin (he merely "dodged away a while") shows the pride only partly humbled. Second, and more importantly, the reader knows what Wukong does not: that this same Bodhisattva has just, moments before and in disguise, handed his master the fillet and the spell that will compel his obedience. Her brisk "do not let the good intention slip" is spoken by one who has already made quite sure it cannot.
The encounter thus seals the persuasion-plot even as it conceals the coercion-plot running beneath it. Wukong flies off believing he returns freely; he is in fact flying straight into the trap of the golden cap. The chapter's two instruments of discipline — appeal to the will and constraint of the body — are here poised to meet.