我教觀音 The Buddha Gives His Word
如來道：「你休亂想，切莫放刁。我教觀音送你去，不怕他不收。好生保護他去，那時功成歸極樂，汝亦坐蓮臺。」如来道：「你休乱想，切莫放刁。我教观音送你去，不怕他不收。好生保护他去，那时功成归极乐，汝亦坐莲台。」
逐句解 Line by line
The Tathāgata said: "Give over your wild thoughts and do not play the rogue.
放刁, to play the rogue, to make difficulties on purpose. It is a piece of everyday scolding, and the Buddha's tone is that of somebody who knows this disciple very well.
I shall have Guanyin see you there, and never fear that he will not take you in.
教 is jiào, to have somebody do a thing. 不怕他不收 stacks two negatives into a guarantee: never fear that he will not take you in.
Guard him well on his way; and in that day, when the work is accomplished and you return to Ultimate Bliss, you too shall sit upon the lotus dais."
極樂 takes lè — Sukhāvatī, the Pure Land. 汝亦坐蓮臺 promises Wukong the buddhahood he actually receives in chapter one hundred, forty-two chapters early.
The Buddha's answer to the request is to refuse it and then to overpay. He will not take the fillet off. Instead he sends Guanyin as escort, guarantees the reconciliation, and — in the last clause — promises Wukong a lotus seat at the end of the road.
汝亦坐蓮臺 is startling for where it sits. It is the reward Wukong actually receives in chapter one hundred, handed over here as reassurance to a disciple in a sulk. The novel rarely shows its hand this far ahead, and it chooses to do so at the moment its hero has asked to quit.
The refusal of the fillet matters too. Wukong asked to be released from the one thing binding him to the pilgrimage, and the answer is that the binding stays and the destination is guaranteed. 你休亂想，切莫放刁 — give over your wild thoughts and stop making difficulties. The tone is affectionate impatience, and the whole exchange reads less like a judgement than like a teacher declining to let a student drop out.