Acknowledgments, First Edition
Acknowledgments, Revised Edition
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51 Mind Monkey in vain uses a thousand tricks;
Futile water and fire makes it hard to smelt demons.
52 Wukong greatly disturbed the Golden Helmet Cave;
Tathāgata reveals in secret the true master.
53 Imbibing, the Chan Lord conceives a ghostly child;
Yellow Dame brings water to end the weird fetus.
54 Dharma-nature, going west, reaches the Women State;
Mind Monkey makes a plan to flee the fair sex.
55 Deviant form makes lustful play for Tripitaka Tang;
Upright nature safeguards the untainted self.
56 Wild Spirit slays brutish bandits;
Wayward Way sets loose Mind Monkey.
57 True Pilgrim lays bare his woes at Mount Potalaka;
False Monkey King transcribes texts at Water-Curtain Cave.
58 Two Minds cause disorder in the great cosmos;
It’s hard for one body to realize true Nirvāṇa.
59 Tripitaka Tang’s path is blocked at Mountain of Flames;
Pilgrim Sun baits for the first time the palm-leaf fan.
60 Bull Demon King stops fighting to attend a lavish feast;
Pilgrim Sun baits for the second time the palm-leaf fan.
61 Zhu Eight Rules assists in defeating the demon king;
Pilgrim Sun baits for the third time the palm-leaf fan.
62 To wash off filth, to bathe the mind, just sweep a pagoda;
To bind demons and return to the lord is self-cultivation.
63 Two monks, quelling fiends, disturb the dragon palace;
The sages, destroying deviates, acquire the treasures.
64 At Bramble Ridge Wuneng exerted great effort;
At Shrine of Sylvan Immortals Tripitaka discusses poetry.
65 Fiends set up falsely the Small Thunderclap;
The four pilgrims all meet a great ordeal.
66 Many gods meet injury;
Maitreya binds a fiend.
67 Having rescued Tuoluo, Chan Nature is secure;
Escaping filthiness, the Mind of Dao is pure.
68 At Scarlet-Purple Kingdom the Tang monk speaks of past eras;
Pilgrim Sun performs on an arm broken in three places.
69 At night the Lord of the Mind refines medicines;
At a banquet the king speaks of the perverse fiend.
70 The monstrous demon’s treasures release smoke, sand, and fire;
Wukong uses a trick to steal the purple-gold bells.
71 By a false name Pilgrim defeats the fiendish wolf;
In epiphany Guanyin subdues the monster-king.
72 At Cobweb Cave Seven Passions delude the Origin;
At Purgation Spring Eight Rules forgets all manners.
73 Passions, because of old enmity, beget calamity ;
Demon-trapped, the Mind Lord with luck breaks the light.
74 Long Life reports how vicious the demons are;
Pilgrim displays his transformation power.
75 Mind Monkey drills through the yin-yang body;
Demon lords return to the true great Way.
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