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禪chán到dào玉yù華huá施shī法fǎ會huì
心xīn猿yuán木mù土tǔ授shòu門mén人rén

Chan Reaches Yuhua and a Dharma Assembly Is Held · The Mind-Ape and the Wood and the Earth Take Disciples

好不會事
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好不會事 You Do Not Know How Things Go

行xíng者zhě聞wén言yán,忍rěn不bú住zhù呵hē呵hē笑xiào道dào:「你nǐ這zhè殿diàn下xià,好hǎo不bú會huì事shì。我wǒ等děng出chū家jiā人rén,巴bā不bù得de要yào傳chuán幾jǐ個gè徒tú弟dì。行xíng者zhě闻wén言yán,忍rěn不bú住zhù呵hē呵hē笑xiào道dào:「你nǐ这zhè殿diàn下xià,好hǎo不bú会huì事shì。我wǒ等děng出chū家jiā人rén,巴bā不bù得de要yào传chuán几jǐ个gè徒tú弟dì。


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行xíng者zhě聞wén言yán,忍rěn不bú住zhù呵hē呵hē笑xiào道dào:「你nǐ這zhè殿diàn下xià,好hǎo不bú會huì事shì。 行xíng者zhě闻wén言yán,忍rěn不bú住zhù呵hē呵hē笑xiào道dào:「你nǐ这zhè殿diàn下xià,好hǎo不bú会huì事shì。

Pilgrim heard this and could not help laughing aloud. "Your Highness, you have no idea how these things go.

呵呵笑 is the open, easy laugh, quite different from the faint cold one he gave when the prince first prostrated himself. 好不會事 is affectionately rude — literally very much not knowing affairs, meaning you do not understand how this works. Addressing a ruler as someone who does not know how things are done is a liberty, and it is the moment the two of them start getting on.

我wǒ等děng出chū家jiā人rén,巴bā不bù得de要yào傳chuán幾jǐ個gè徒tú弟dì。 我wǒ等děng出chū家jiā人rén,巴bā不bù得de要yào传chuán几jǐ个gè徒tú弟dì。

We who have left home are only too eager to pass the thing on to a few disciples.

出家人, one who has left the household, is the ordinary term for a monk — you leave your family to enter the religious life. 巴不得 is a wonderful colloquial phrase, still in daily use, for wanting something so much you can hardly wait; 得 in it is read de. The answer to an offer of a city's wealth is that they were hoping somebody would ask.


總評 Commentary

The prince has offered everything he owns for something the disciples would have given away. Pilgrim tells him so by laughing at him, and it is the warmest exchange in the chapter.

The phrase for wanting something badly is deliberately ordinary — the sort of thing anyone says about a day off. Put next to the boat of mercy and the wealth of a whole city, it does more to close the distance between prince and monk than any amount of ceremony.