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清混各一 Pure and Foul Side by Side
清混各一，這是西方的事情。」三藏道：「原來是如此。」清混各一，这是西方的事情。」三藏道：「原来是如此。」
逐句解 Line by line
清混各一，這是西方的事情。」
清混各一，这是西方的事情。」
"The pure and the muddled each have their own place. That is how things are in the West."
清混各一 — four characters holding the whole policy. 清 is clear water and 混 is muddy, and the caretaker uses them for the clean half and the dirty half of his own monastery.
三藏道：「原來是如此。」
三藏道：「原来是如此。」
Tripitaka said, "So that is how it is."
Eight characters of acceptance, and no comment at all on the ethics of it.
The caretaker's summary is the most quietly interesting sentence in the chapter. The pure and the muddied each get a place, and that is simply how the West works.
Set it against everything else in chapter 80 and it becomes a rebuke. Pilgrim wants the demon dealt with; Tripitaka wants her saved; nobody has considered the third option, which is to let her exist somewhere that is not your problem. The monks of this house have built a wall and a policy and a second monastery around exactly that idea.
And Tripitaka accepts it in eight characters without argument, having spent the afternoon insisting that no living thing may be passed by. He is about to bring the muddied half in through the gate himself.