拜蓮臺 To Bow At The Lotus Throne
正是：正是：
逐句解 Line by line
And so:
Two characters — the shortest unit in the chapter after the single-character grunt of disgust in the lane. A bare announcement with no bracket, standing alone to open the closing verse.
The guests of Tuoluo Village turn homeward; Eight Rules opens the hill and comes through the lane.
The four rhyme words of this quatrain are all level in tone: lái, shuāi, kāi, tái. Unlike the pig portrait, the opening line does not rhyme at its midpoint.
Tripitaka's heart being sincere, divine power gathered to him; Wukong's craft being shown, the monsters withered.
藏 reads zàng. The couplet assigns causes: sincerity draws power down, and skill defeats demons.
A thousand years of thin persimmon are clean this morning; the Seven Perfections lane stands open this day.
朝 is zhāo here, morning — not the cháo, "facing towards," that the same character takes twice in this chapter's prose. 今朝 and 此日 answer each other across the caesura, both of them meaning "today."
The six desires and the dust of feeling are cut clean away; in peace and without hindrance they go to bow at the lotus throne.
The six desires are those of the senses — the standard Buddhist list of what ties a person to the world. The couplet reads the lane as allegory at the very last moment, having spent the entire chapter treating it as fruit.
The closing quatrain does what closing quatrains do: states the outcome twice, once in people and once in principles. Villagers home, Eight Rules through; sincerity rewarded, skill effective.
The third couplet is the one that carries the chapter. A thousand years of rotten persimmon against a single morning — and both halves of the line are dated, 今朝 and 此日, as though the clearing needed to go on the record.
Then the last line converts the whole thing to allegory. The lane becomes the six desires and the dust of feeling, and an obstacle made of fruit turns out to have been made of appetite — which is exactly what cleared it.