原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
都在我身上 It Is All on My Head
帶了他去，凡有事，都在我身上。」行者道：「師父雖說有事在你，卻不知你不是救他，反是害他。」带了他去，凡有事，都在我身上。」行者道：「师父虽说有事在你，却不知你不是救他，反是害他。」
逐句解 Line by line
帶了他去，凡有事，都在我身上。」
带了他去，凡有事，都在我身上。」
Take her along, and whatever happens is on me."
在我身上 — on my body — is the ordinary Chinese way of taking responsibility, and it is still current. Given what is going to happen to his body, the phrase is a good deal more literal than he means it.
行者道：「師父雖說有事在你，卻不知你不是救他，反是害他。」
行者道：「师父虽说有事在你，却不知你不是救他，反是害他。」
Pilgrim said, "Master, you may say the trouble will fall on you, but you do not realise that you are not saving her. You are doing her harm."
A complete change of tack, the third in this argument. Having failed on demons and failed on the law, he now takes up her welfare.
Tripitaka accepts liability in a phrase that puts it on his own body, which is precisely the currency the demon is trading in. Ten lifetimes of untouched merit, voluntarily pledged, in a sentence meant as reassurance.
Pilgrim's new argument is his cleverest and his most cynical. He has worked out that his master cannot be moved by risk to himself or to the party, but can be moved by harm to her — so he starts arguing from her interests, which he does not hold, to reach a conclusion he does.