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悟空排行
Wukong of the Wu Generation
那菩薩聞得此言，滿心歡喜，對大聖道：「聖經云：『出其言善，則千里之外應之；出其言不善，則千里之外違之。』你既有此心，待我到了東土大唐國尋一個取經的人來，教他救你。你可跟他做個徒弟，秉教迦持，入我佛門，再修正果，如何？」大聖聲聲道：「願去，願去。」菩薩道：「既有善果，我與你起個法名。」大聖道：「我已有名了，叫做孫悟空。」菩薩又喜道：「我前面也有二人歸降，正是『悟』字排行，你今也是『悟』字，卻與他相合，甚好，甚好。這等也不消叮囑，我去也。」那大聖見性明心歸佛教，這菩薩留情在意訪神僧。那菩萨闻得此言，满心欢喜，对大圣道：「圣经云：『出其言善，则千里之外应之；出其言不善，则千里之外违之。』你既有此心，待我到了东土大唐国寻一个取经的人来，教他救你。你可跟他做个徒弟，秉教迦持，入我佛门，再修正果，如何？」大圣声声道：「愿去，愿去。」菩萨道：「既有善果，我与你起个法名。」大圣道：「我已有名了，叫做孙悟空。」菩萨又喜道：「我前面也有二人归降，正是『悟』字排行，你今也是『悟』字，却与他相合，甚好，甚好。这等也不消叮嘱，我去也。」那大圣见性明心归佛教，这菩萨留情在意访神僧。
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那菩薩聞得此言，滿心歡喜，對大聖道：「聖經云：『出其言善，則千里之外應之；出其言不善，則千里之外違之。』
那菩萨闻得此言，满心欢喜，对大圣道：「圣经云：『出其言善，则千里之外应之；出其言不善，则千里之外违之。』
The Bodhisattva, hearing these words, was filled with joy, and said to the Great Sage: “The sage's classic says: ‘If his words are good, then beyond a thousand li they answer him; if his words are not good, then beyond a thousand li they oppose him.’
聞得 — the complement 得 is neutral de; 應之 — 應 read yìng (to answer); 不善 takes bú. The citation is from the Classic of Changes (Xici).
你既有此心，待我到了東土大唐國尋一個取經的人來，教他救你。
你既有此心，待我到了东土大唐国寻一个取经的人来，教他救你。
Since you have this mind, wait until I reach the Great Tang in the Eastern Land and find a scripture-seeking man, and I will have him save you.
一個 takes yí.
你可跟他做個徒弟，秉教迦持，入我佛門，再修正果，如何？」
你可跟他做个徒弟，秉教迦持，入我佛门，再修正果，如何？」
You may follow him as a disciple, uphold the teaching with discipline, enter my Buddha-gate, and cultivate the true fruit anew. What say you?”
秉教迦持 — to hold to the teaching and keep its discipline (adhiṣṭhāna).
大聖聲聲道：「願去，願去。」
大圣声声道：「愿去，愿去。」
The Great Sage said again and again: “I will go, I will go!”
菩薩道：「既有善果，我與你起個法名。」
菩萨道：「既有善果，我与你起个法名。」
The Bodhisattva said: “Since there is good fruit in store, let me give you a religious name.”
與 here is yǔ (“for, to give”).
大聖道：「我已有名了，叫做孫悟空。」
大圣道：「我已有名了，叫做孙悟空。」
The Great Sage said: “I already have a name — Sun Wukong.”
孫悟空 — “Sun, Awakened to Emptiness,” the name already given him by his first master, Subhuti.
菩薩又喜道：「我前面也有二人歸降，正是『悟』字排行，你今也是『悟』字，卻與他相合，甚好，甚好。
菩萨又喜道：「我前面也有二人归降，正是『悟』字排行，你今也是『悟』字，却与他相合，甚好，甚好。
The Bodhisattva said with renewed joy: “I have already won over two others, whose names run in the ‘Wu’ generation; your name too has the ‘Wu,’ and so accords with theirs. Very good, very good!
歸降 — to submit; 降 is xiáng. 排行 — generational ordering of names; 行 is háng. 相合 — to accord; 相 is xiāng.
這等也不消叮囑，我去也。」
这等也不消叮嘱，我去也。」
In that case there is no need for further instruction — I shall be off.”
不消 — 不 takes bù before first-tone 消; the phrase means “need not.”
那大聖見性明心歸佛教，這菩薩留情在意訪神僧。
那大圣见性明心归佛教，这菩萨留情在意访神僧。
So the Great Sage, seeing his nature and clarifying his mind, turned to the Buddha's teaching; and the Bodhisattva, mindful and intent, went on to seek the holy monk.
見性明心 — “to see the nature and clarify the mind,” the Chan idiom for awakening. The paired closing line balances the converted monkey against the seeking bodhisattva.
總評 Commentary
The pact is sealed. Guanyin, hearing the monkey's repentance, promises to send the pilgrim who will free him, and the bargain is fixed: he will serve as a disciple in exchange for release. The chapter's whole project — to discipline rather than destroy the mind-monkey — is now formally agreed.
The matter of his name is a deft stroke of design. Wukong already bears the 悟 (“awakened”) of his first master Subhuti's lineage, and Guanyin delights that it accords with the 悟 of the two disciples she has already gathered, Wuneng and the future Wujing. The three converts are bound into a single generation by a shared character, the band unified before it is assembled.
Following Anthony C. Yu, the closing couplet — 那大聖見性明心歸佛教，這菩薩留情在意訪神僧 — sets the converted monkey beside the still-seeking bodhisattva, and so points the narrative forward. With Wukong won, only the pilgrim himself remains to be found, and the final passage turns east toward Chang'an to find him.