Canonical Classics ← 第八十回
第八十回
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The Fair Girl, Nursing the Yang, Seeks a Mate · The Mind-Ape, Guarding His Master, Knows a Fiend

端坐松陰
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端坐松陰 Left Under the Pine Shade

xíngzhědào:「shīwěnzuòyàojīnglejiùlái。」sānzàngduānzuòsōngyīnzhīxiàjièshāsēngquèxúnhuāguǒxiánshuǎxíngzhědào:「shīwěnzuòyàojīnglejiùlái。」sānzàngduānzuòsōngyīnzhīxiàjièshāsēngquèxúnhuāguǒxiánshuǎ


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhědào:「shīwěnzuòyàojīnglejiùlái。」 xíngzhědào:「shīwěnzuòyàojīnglejiùlái。」

Pilgrim said, "Sit tight, Master. Do not be alarmed at anything. I shall be back as soon as I have gone."

The last four characters are a small joke of Pilgrim's — gone and back in the same breath, which for somebody who travels by somersault cloud is very nearly true.

sānzàngduānzuòsōngyīnzhīxiàjièshāsēngquèxúnhuāguǒxiánshuǎ sānzàngduānzuòsōngyīnzhīxiàjièshāsēngquèxúnhuāguǒxiánshuǎ

Tripitaka sat upright beneath the shade of the pines, while Bajie and Sha Monk went off to hunt for flowers and fruit and amuse themselves.

端坐 is to sit square and upright, the posture of meditation — and in the next passage that is exactly what he will be doing, reciting the Heart Sutra, when the voice starts calling.


總評 Commentary

The passage separates the party with great economy. Pilgrim goes up, Bajie and Sha Monk wander off, and Tripitaka is left sitting alone under the trees in the middle of the wood the verse spent eighteen lines describing.

Pilgrim's parting instruction is to sit tight and not be alarmed. Both halves will be disregarded within the hour, and by the master rather than by the pigs and monsters he was warning against.