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。
逐句解 Line by line
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.'
She is delighted, and reaches for a classic to say so. 聞得 uses the light de; 應之 has 應 as yìng, to answer; 不善 takes bú. The quotation is from the Classic of Changes, in the Xici commentary: say a good thing and it is answered a thousand li away.
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.
In 一個 the 一 takes yí.
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 is holding to the teaching and keeping to its discipline — Sanskrit adhiṣṭhāna, the steadying power a practice exerts on the person doing it.
The Great Sage said again and again: "I will go, I will go!"
聲聲 is over and over, the same doubling the boar used at his own conversion. He volunteers before anyone has told him where he is going, which is his entire character in four characters.
The Bodhisattva said: "Since there is good fruit in store, let me give you a religious name."
與 here is yǔ, to give or for.
The Great Sage said: "I already have a name — Sun Wukong."
He has one already, thank you. 孫悟空 is Sun, Awakened to Emptiness, the name his first master Subhuti gave him hundreds of pages ago.
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!
And here is the neat surprise: the name already fits. 歸降 is submitting, 降 read xiáng. 排行 is the practice of giving everyone in one generation of a family a shared character in their name, so you can hear the seniority — 行 is read háng. 相合 is matching up, 相 read xiāng. Three converts, three 悟 names, and none of it arranged by her.
In that case there is no need for further instruction — I shall be off."
In 不消 the 不 keeps bù before the level tone of 消; the phrase means no need.
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, seeing the nature and clearing the mind, is the Chan phrase for waking up. The closing line sets the two of them side by side — the monkey converted, the bodhisattva still walking — and hands the story on.
The bargain is struck. Guanyin hears the repentance, promises to send the pilgrim who will free him, and the terms are set: service as a disciple in exchange for release. The chapter's whole project — to break the mind-monkey in rather than break him — is now formally agreed by both parties.
The business of the name is a deft piece of design. Wukong already carries the 悟, awakened, that his first master Subhuti gave him, and Guanyin is delighted to find it matches the 悟 of the two she has already signed up, Wujing at the river and Wuneng on the mountain. The three converts turn out to share a generation-name without anyone having arranged it, and the band is unified before it has met.
As Anthony C. Yu observes, 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-searching bodhisattva and points the story forward. With Wukong won, only the pilgrim himself is missing, and the last passage turns east toward Chang'an to look for him.