原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
消災消障 Calamity Gone And Hindrance Gone
這裡才:这里才:
無罣無牽逃難去,消災消障脫身行。无罣无牵逃难去,消灾消障脱身行。
逐句解 Line by line
這裡才:
这里才:
And here at last:
Three characters standing alone to open the closing couplet.
無罣無牽逃難去,消災消障脫身行。
无罣无牵逃难去,消灾消障脱身行。
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.
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.