萬慮皆休 Thunderclap Is Right Before Your Eyes
但要一片志誠，雷音只在眼下。似你這般恐懼驚惶，神思不安，大道遠矣，雷音亦遠矣。且莫胡疑，隨我去。」那長老聞言，心神頓爽，萬慮皆休。但要一片志诚，雷音只在眼下。似你这般恐惧惊惶，神思不安，大道远矣，雷音亦远矣。且莫胡疑，随我去。」那长老闻言，心神顿爽，万虑皆休。
逐句解 Line by line
Only hold one piece of true sincerity, and Thunderclap is right there before your eyes.
一片 counts sincerity as though it were a flat expanse — a sheet of it, all one thing. 雷音 is the Great Thunderclap Monastery, the destination, thousands of miles west and here declared to be underfoot. It is the gāthā's argument again, put in Pilgrim's own plain words.
Carry on like this, in terror and alarm with your mind unsettled, and the Great Way is far off, and Thunderclap is far off too. Stop this wild doubting and come along with me."
He turns the master's own report of his symptoms back on him — 神思不安 is lifted word for word from what Tripitaka said a few lines earlier. The two 遠矣 land like a gate closing twice. Then the register drops all the way back down: 且莫胡疑 and 隨我去 — stop fussing and come on.
Hearing this the elder felt his heart and spirit clear at a stroke, and his ten thousand anxieties all fell quiet.
頓 is at once, in one movement — the sermon works instantly. 萬慮皆休, the ten thousand cares all resting, is the exact reversal of the numbness and unease he described, and the novel puts it in the same four-character shape to make the reversal audible.
The sermon works. Tripitaka's fear is talked away in three segments and he rides on calm, and that is the last calm anyone gets.
It is worth holding on to what he was calmed out of. He said the mountain had a fierce quality and violent cloud coming off it. He was describing an actual demon sitting on an actual crag, and Pilgrim will see it himself within the page.
So the passage does two things at once. Read forward it is a disciple settling his master. Read back from the end of the chapter it is the moment the party talked itself out of the only accurate warning it received.