第十四回 · 行者辭去 Old Sun Is Off — Journey to the West

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行者辭去 Old Sun Is Off

原yuán來lái這zhè猴hóu子zi一yì生shēng受shòu不bù得dé人rén氣qì。他tā見jiàn三sān藏zàng只zhǐ管guǎn緒xù緒xù叨dāo叨dāo，按àn不bú住zhù心xīn頭tóu火huǒ發fā道dào：「你nǐ既jì是shì這zhè等děng，說shuō我wǒ做zuò不bù得dé和hé尚shàng，上shàng不bù得dé西xī天tiān，不bú必bì恁nèn般bān絮xù聒guā惡è我wǒ，我wǒ回huí去qù便biàn了liǎo。」那nà三sān藏zàng卻què不bù曾céng答dá應yìng。他tā就jiù使shǐ一yí個gè性xìng子zi，將jiāng身shēn一yí縱zòng，說shuō一yì聲shēng：「老lǎo孫sūn去qù也yě！」三sān藏zàng急jí擡tái頭tóu，早zǎo已yǐ不bú見jiàn。只zhǐ聞wén得de呼hū的de一yì聲shēng，回huí東dōng而ér去qù。撇piē得de那nà長zhǎng老lǎo孤gū孤gū零líng零líng，點diǎn頭tóu自zì歎tàn，悲bēi怨yuàn不bù已yǐ道dào：「這zhè廝sī這zhè等děng不bú受shòu教jiào誨huì，我wǒ但dàn說shuō他tā幾jǐ句jù，他tā怎zěn麼me就jiù無wú形xíng無wú影yǐng的de徑jìng回huí去qù了le？罷bà罷bà罷bà，也yě是shì我wǒ命mìng裡lǐ不bù該gāi招zhāo徒tú弟dì，進jìn人rén口kǒu。如rú今jīn欲yù尋xún他tā無wú處chù尋xún，欲yù叫jiào他tā叫jiào不bù應yìng，去qù來lái，去qù來lái。」正zhèng是shì：原yuán来lái这zhè猴hóu子zi一yì生shēng受shòu不bù得dé人rén气qì。他tā见jiàn三sān藏zàng只zhǐ管guǎn绪xù绪xù叨dāo叨dāo，按àn不bú住zhù心xīn头tóu火huǒ发fā道dào：「你nǐ既jì是shì这zhè等děng，说shuō我wǒ做zuò不bù得dé和hé尚shàng，上shàng不bù得dé西xī天tiān，不bú必bì恁nèn般bān絮xù聒guā恶è我wǒ，我wǒ回huí去qù便biàn了liǎo。」那nà三sān藏zàng却què不bù曾céng答dá应yìng。他tā就jiù使shǐ一yí个gè性xìng子zi，将jiāng身shēn一yí纵zòng，说shuō一yì声shēng：「老lǎo孙sūn去qù也yě！」三sān藏zàng急jí擡tái头tóu，早zǎo已yǐ不bú见jiàn。只zhǐ闻wén得de呼hū的de一yì声shēng，回huí东dōng而ér去qù。撇piē得de那nà长zhǎng老lǎo孤gū孤gū零líng零líng，点diǎn头tóu自zì叹tàn，悲bēi怨yuàn不bù已yǐ道dào：「这zhè厮sī这zhè等děng不bú受shòu教jiào诲huì，我wǒ但dàn说shuō他tā几jǐ句jù，他tā怎zěn么me就jiù无wú形xíng无wú影yǐng的de径jìng回huí去qù了le？罢bà罢bà罢bà，也yě是shì我wǒ命mìng里lǐ不bù该gāi招zhāo徒tú弟dì，进jìn人rén口kǒu。如rú今jīn欲yù寻xún他tā无wú处chù寻xún，欲yù叫jiào他tā叫jiào不bù应yìng，去qù来lái，去qù来lái。」正zhèng是shì：

捨shě身shēn拚pàn命mìng歸guī西xī去qù，莫mò倚yǐ傍bàng人rén自zì主zhǔ張zhāng。舍shě身shēn拚pàn命mìng归guī西xī去qù，莫mò倚yǐ傍bàng人rén自zì主zhǔ张zhāng。

逐句解 Line by line

原yuán來lái這zhè猴hóu子zi一yì生shēng受shòu不bù得dé人rén氣qì。原yuán来lái这zhè猴hóu子zi一yì生shēng受shòu不bù得dé人rén气qì。

Now this monkey had, all his life, been unable to bear being slighted.

The narrator names the flaw that undoes the reconciliation: the monkey's pride, his lifelong inability to endure a slight. 猴子 reads 子 as neutral zi; 受不得 reads 得 as dé.

他tā見jiàn三sān藏zàng只zhǐ管guǎn緒xù緒xù叨dāo叨dāo，按àn不bú住zhù心xīn頭tóu火huǒ發fā道dào：他tā见jiàn三sān藏zàng只zhǐ管guǎn绪xù绪xù叨dāo叨dāo，按àn不bú住zhù心xīn头tóu火huǒ发fā道dào：

Seeing Sanzang go on and on nagging, he could not hold down the fire in his heart, and burst out:

It is the endlessness of the scolding — 緒緒叨叨, "nagging on and on" — that breaks him. 三藏 reads 藏 as zàng.

「你nǐ既jì是shì這zhè等děng，說shuō我wǒ做zuò不bù得dé和hé尚shàng，上shàng不bù得dé西xī天tiān，不bú必bì恁nèn般bān絮xù聒guā惡è我wǒ，我wǒ回huí去qù便biàn了liǎo。」「你nǐ既jì是shì这zhè等děng，说shuō我wǒ做zuò不bù得dé和hé尚shàng，上shàng不bù得dé西xī天tiān，不bú必bì恁nèn般bān絮xù聒guā恶è我wǒ，我wǒ回huí去qù便biàn了liǎo。」

"If that is how it is — if you say I cannot be a monk and cannot reach the Western Heaven — then there is no need to keep scolding and despising me. I will go back, and that is that!"

His outburst throws the master's own words back at him and announces his departure. 做不得 and 上不得 both take 得 as dé.

那nà三sān藏zàng卻què不bù曾céng答dá應yìng。那nà三sān藏zàng却què不bù曾céng答dá应yìng。

Sanzang made no answer.

Sanzang's silence — no attempt to hold him — seals the rupture. 那三藏 reads 那 as nà; 答應 reads 應 as yìng.

他tā就jiù使shǐ一yí個gè性xìng子zi，將jiāng身shēn一yí縱zòng，說shuō一yì聲shēng：「老lǎo孫sūn去qù也yě！」他tā就jiù使shǐ一yí个gè性xìng子zi，将jiāng身shēn一yí纵zòng，说shuō一yì声shēng：「老lǎo孙sūn去qù也yě！」

So the monkey lost his temper; with a single bound of his body he cried out, "Old Sun is off!"

The departure is instant and total, the somersault-cloud carrying him off in a word. 性子 reads 子 as neutral zi; 將身 reads 將 as jiāng.

三sān藏zàng急jí擡tái頭tóu，早zǎo已yǐ不bú見jiàn。三sān藏zàng急jí擡tái头tóu，早zǎo已yǐ不bú见jiàn。

Sanzang looked up in haste, but he was already gone.

The monk looks up too late; the disciple has already vanished. 三藏 reads 藏 as zàng.

只zhǐ聞wén得de呼hū的de一yì聲shēng，回huí東dōng而ér去qù。只zhǐ闻wén得de呼hū的de一yì声shēng，回huí东dōng而ér去qù。

Only a whistling sound was heard as he made off eastward.

Only a whistle eastward marks his going, back toward Flower-Fruit Mountain. 只聞得 takes 得 as de.

撇piē得de那nà長zhǎng老lǎo孤gū孤gū零líng零líng，點diǎn頭tóu自zì歎tàn，悲bēi怨yuàn不bù已yǐ道dào：撇piē得de那nà长zhǎng老lǎo孤gū孤gū零líng零líng，点diǎn头tóu自zì叹tàn，悲bēi怨yuàn不bù已yǐ道dào：

Left all alone, the elder nodded to himself and sighed, grieving without end:

The abandoned monk's lament is the chapter's low point. 撇得 reads 得 as de; 那長老 reads 那 as nà, 長 as zhǎng.

「這zhè廝sī這zhè等děng不bú受shòu教jiào誨huì，我wǒ但dàn說shuō他tā幾jǐ句jù，他tā怎zěn麼me就jiù無wú形xíng無wú影yǐng的de徑jìng回huí去qù了le？「这zhè厮sī这zhè等děng不bú受shòu教jiào诲huì，我wǒ但dàn说shuō他tā几jǐ句jù，他tā怎zěn么me就jiù无wú形xíng无wú影yǐng的de径jìng回huí去qù了le？

"So this is how he takes correction! I say but a few words to him, and off he goes without form or shadow, straight back the way he came.

His self-pity mixes hurt and reproach: a few words, and the disciple vanishes. 教誨 reads 教 as jiào.

罷bà罷bà罷bà，也yě是shì我wǒ命mìng裡lǐ不bù該gāi招zhāo徒tú弟dì，進jìn人rén口kǒu。罢bà罢bà罢bà，也yě是shì我wǒ命mìng里lǐ不bù该gāi招zhāo徒tú弟dì，进jìn人rén口kǒu。

Enough, enough! It must be that it is not my fate to gather a disciple, to add to my company.

Resignation follows — perhaps he is fated to travel alone.

如rú今jīn欲yù尋xún他tā無wú處chù尋xún，欲yù叫jiào他tā叫jiào不bù應yìng，去qù來lái，去qù來lái。」正zhèng是shì：如rú今jīn欲yù寻xún他tā无wú处chù寻xún，欲yù叫jiào他tā叫jiào不bù应yìng，去qù来lái，去qù来lái。」正zhèng是shì：

Now, though I would seek him, there is nowhere to seek; though I would call him, he does not answer. On, then; on." And so it was:

The lament closes on helplessness — nowhere to seek, no answer to his call — and a weary resolve to press on. 叫不應 reads 應 as yìng; the tag 正是 ("and so it was") cues the closing couplet.

Cast off self and stake your life, and go toward the West; lean not on others, but be your own master.

The closing couplet distils the chapter's lesson from Sanzang's plight. Abandoned, he must resolve to press on alone — and the maxim generalises: the way west demands that one stake everything and rely on one's own resolve rather than on another's help. The irony is that the lesson is premature: the monk cannot in fact go it alone, and Guanyin is already moving to restore the disciple he cannot do without.

總評 Commentary

The rupture comes swiftly and is rooted in character. The narrator is explicit: the monkey's undoing is his pride, his lifelong inability to bear a slight. Sanzang's rebuke was just in substance but merciless in delivery, and its endless nagging — not the killing itself — is what finally drives Wukong to fling the master's words back at him and vanish eastward in a single bound.

Sanzang's silence at the crucial moment — making no move to hold his disciple — completes the break, and the passage lingers on his solitary lament: the abandoned monk nodding and sighing on the empty road, resigning himself to travel alone. It is the chapter's emotional low, the newly formed fellowship broken almost as soon as it was made.

The closing couplet draws a brave moral — cast off self, stake your life, rely on no one — but the narrative immediately undercuts it. The monk manifestly cannot proceed alone, and even as he resolves to try, Guanyin is on her way with the remedy. The lesson of self-reliance is real, but so is its limit: on this journey, discipline must be supplied from without before it can be owned within.