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清心了意
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清心了意 Heart Cleared And Mind Settled

此cǐ時shí三sān藏zàng解jiě燥zào除chú煩fán,清qīng心xīn了liǎo意yì。四sì眾zhòng皈guī依yī,謝xiè了le金jīn剛gāng,各gè轉zhuǎn寶bǎo山shān。六liù丁dīng六liù甲jiǎ升shēng空kōng保bǎo護hù。此cǐ时shí三sān藏zàng解jiě燥zào除chú烦fán,清qīng心xīn了liǎo意yì。四sì众zhòng皈guī依yī,谢xiè了le金jīn刚gāng,各gè转zhuǎn宝bǎo山shān。六liù丁dīng六liù甲jiǎ升shēng空kōng保bǎo护hù。


逐句解 Line by line

此cǐ時shí三sān藏zàng解jiě燥zào除chú煩fán,清qīng心xīn了liǎo意yì。 此cǐ时shí三sān藏zàng解jiě燥zào除chú烦fán,清qīng心xīn了liǎo意yì。

At this Tripitaka was rid of his parching and his vexation, his heart cleared and his mind settled.

清心了意 takes 了 at liǎo, the verb — to settle or bring to completion — and not the light le the character carries almost everywhere else. It is the second such site in the chapter after 說不了, and nothing marks either. 解 is jiě. The phrase belongs to the vocabulary of religious practice rather than of comfort: what is relieved is not only the heat.

四sì眾zhòng皈guī依yī,謝xiè了le金jīn剛gāng,各gè轉zhuǎn寶bǎo山shān。 四sì众zhòng皈guī依yī,谢xiè了le金jīn刚gāng,各gè转zhuǎn宝bǎo山shān。

The four took refuge, thanked the Vajras, and each returned to his own precious mountain.

皈依 is to take refuge in the Three Jewels, the formal act of Buddhist commitment, and 四眾 counts the master and three disciples. 各轉寶山 sends the Vajras home to the four mountains the previous passages named one by one.

六liù丁dīng六liù甲jiǎ升shēng空kōng保bǎo護hù。 六liù丁dīng六liù甲jiǎ升shēng空kōng保bǎo护hù。

The Six Ding and Six Jia rose into the sky to keep guard.

The dispersal is reported company by company, each with its own sentence.


總評 Commentary

解燥除煩 undoes the two complaints that started the whole errand. Tripitaka was sent his disciples because 一則火氣蒸人,二來心焦口渴 — steamed by the fire-vapour, his heart scorched and his mouth dry — and the chapter closes his discomfort in the same four-and-four shape it opened it.

清心了意 does more than that, though. 了 here is the verb, to settle or bring to completion, and the phrase belongs to the vocabulary of practice rather than of comfort. What is relieved is not only the heat.

Then the host disperses, company by company, each with its own sentence. The Vajras to their four mountains, the Six Dīng and Six Jiǎ into the sky, and the chapter begins putting away the machinery it spent five passages assembling.