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第六十六回
諸zhū神shén遭zāo毒dú手shǒu
彌mí勒lè縛fù妖yāo魔mó

The Gods Fall Victim to a Vicious Hand · Maitreya Binds the Demon Fiend

消災消障
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition 含詞賦 With rhapsody

消災消障 Calamity Gone And Hindrance Gone

這zhè裡lǐ才cái:这zhè里lǐ才cái:

無wú罣guà無wú牽qiān逃táo難nàn去qù,消xiāo災zāi消xiāo障zhàng脫tuō身shēn行xíng。无wú罣guà无wú牵qiān逃táo难nàn去qù,消xiāo灾zāi消xiāo障zhàng脱tuō身shēn行xíng。

逐句解 Line by line

這zhè裡lǐ才cái: 这zhè里lǐ才cái:

And here at last:

Three characters standing alone to open the closing couplet.

無wú罣guà無wú牽qiān逃táo難nàn去qù,消xiāo災zāi消xiāo障zhàng脫tuō身shēn行xíng。 无wú罣guà无wú牵qiān逃táo难nàn去qù,消xiāo灾zāi消xiāo障zhàng脱tuō身shēn行xíng。

With nothing to snag and nothing to hold them, they fled the calamity; disaster gone and hindrance gone, they went their way free.

難 is nàn, a disaster — the same reading it took in Monkey's lament, where the same character closed the poem three couplets later as nán, hard to. 行 is xíng.


總評 Commentary

Two lines of seven characters each, built on four negations and two removals: nothing snagging, nothing holding, disaster gone, hindrance gone. The couplet describes the pilgrims' state entirely by subtraction.

障, hindrance, is the word Maitreya used when he explained why any of this had happened — demon-hindrances not yet worked through. The couplet reports them worked through, which is the chapter's only statement that the ordeal accomplished anything.