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一飲一啄
A Sip and a Peck: Mañjuśrī Explains
行者道：「菩薩，這是你坐下的一個青毛獅子，卻怎麼走將來成精，你就不收服他？」菩薩道：「悟空，他不曾走，他是佛旨差來的。」行者道：「這畜類成精，侵奪帝位，還奉佛旨差來。似老孫保唐僧受苦，就該領幾道敕書。」菩薩道：「你不知道。當初這烏雞國王好善齋僧，佛差我來度他歸西，早證金身羅漢。因是不可原身相見，變做一種凡僧，問他化些齋供。被吾幾句言語相難，他不識我是個好人，把我一條繩綑了，送在那御水河中，浸了我三日三夜。多虧六甲金身救我歸西，奏與如來。如來將此怪令到此處推他下井，浸他三年，以報吾三日水災之恨。『一飲一啄，莫非前定。』今得汝等來此，成了功績。」行者道：「你雖報了甚麼『一飲一啄』的私仇，但那怪物不知害了多少人也。」菩薩道：「也不曾害人。自他到後，這三年間，風調雨順，國泰民安，何害人之有？」行者道：「固然如此，但只三宮娘娘與他同眠同起，點污了他的身體，壞了多少綱常倫理，還叫做不曾害人？」菩薩道：「點污他不得，他是個騸了的獅子。」八戒聞言，走近前，就摸了一把。笑道：「這妖精真個是糟鼻子不吃酒──枉擔其名了。」行者道：「既如此，收了去罷。若不是菩薩親來，決不饒他性命。」行者道：「菩萨，这是你坐下的一个青毛狮子，却怎么走将来成精，你就不收服他？」菩萨道：「悟空，他不曾走，他是佛旨差来的。」行者道：「这畜类成精，侵夺帝位，还奉佛旨差来。似老孙保唐僧受苦，就该领几道敕书。」菩萨道：「你不知道。当初这乌鸡国王好善斋僧，佛差我来度他归西，早证金身罗汉。因是不可原身相见，变做一种凡僧，问他化些斋供。被吾几句言语相难，他不识我是个好人，把我一条绳捆了，送在那御水河中，浸了我三日三夜。多亏六甲金身救我归西，奏与如来。如来将此怪令到此处推他下井，浸他三年，以报吾三日水灾之恨。『一饮一啄，莫非前定。』今得汝等来此，成了功绩。」行者道：「你虽报了甚么『一饮一啄』的私仇，但那怪物不知害了多少人也。」菩萨道：「也不曾害人。自他到后，这三年间，风调雨顺，国泰民安，何害人之有？」行者道：「固然如此，但只三宫娘娘与他同眠同起，点污了他的身体，坏了多少纲常伦理，还叫做不曾害人？」菩萨道：「点污他不得，他是个骟了的狮子。」八戒闻言，走近前，就摸了一把。笑道：「这妖精真个是糟鼻子不吃酒──枉担其名了。」行者道：「既如此，收了去罢。若不是菩萨亲来，决不饶他性命。」
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行者道：「菩薩，這是你坐下的一個青毛獅子，卻怎麼走將來成精，你就不收服他？」
行者道：「菩萨，这是你坐下的一个青毛狮子，却怎么走将来成精，你就不收服他？」
Pilgrim said: "Bodhisattva, this is a green-furred lion you keep beneath your seat — how is it he came walking off to turn into a spirit, and you didn't subdue him?"
走將來: directional coverb 將 = jiāng. 獅子: suffix 子 = zi.
菩薩道：「悟空，他不曾走，他是佛旨差來的。」
菩萨道：「悟空，他不曾走，他是佛旨差来的。」
The Bodhisattva said: "Wukong, he didn't run off — he was sent by the Buddha's decree."
佛旨差來: 差 = chāi ("dispatched"); 佛 = fó.
行者道：「這畜類成精，侵奪帝位，還奉佛旨差來。
行者道：「这畜类成精，侵夺帝位，还奉佛旨差来。
Pilgrim said: "This beast turned spirit, seized a throne, and yet was sent by the Buddha's decree?
還奉佛旨差來: 還 = hái; 差 = chāi. 畜類: 畜 = chù.
似老孫保唐僧受苦，就該領幾道敕書。」
似老孙保唐僧受苦，就该领几道敕书。」
The way old Sun guards the Tang Monk and suffers hardship, I ought to be given a few decrees myself!"
似老孫: 似 = sì ("the way, like"). 領幾道敕書 = "receive several patents of decree."
菩薩道：「你不知道。
菩萨道：「你不知道。
The Bodhisattva said: "You don't know.
你不知道 — the Bodhisattva prefaces the tale of the karmic debt.
當初這烏雞國王好善齋僧，佛差我來度他歸西，早證金身羅漢。
当初这乌鸡国王好善斋僧，佛差我来度他归西，早证金身罗汉。
In the beginning this king of Wūjī was good and gave alms to monks, and the Buddha sent me to deliver him to the West, to attain betimes the golden body of an arhat.
當初: 當 = dāng. 佛差我來: 差 = chāi; 度他歸西 度 = dù.
因是不可原身相見，變做一種凡僧，問他化些齋供。
因是不可原身相见，变做一种凡僧，问他化些斋供。
Because I could not appear to him in my true form, I changed into an ordinary monk and asked him for some alms of vegetarian fare.
原身相見: 相 = xiāng. 化些齋供: 供 = gòng ("offering").
被吾幾句言語相難，他不識我是個好人，把我一條繩綑了，送在那御水河中，浸了我三日三夜。
被吾几句言语相难，他不识我是个好人，把我一条绳捆了，送在那御水河中，浸了我三日三夜。
Nettled by a few of my words, and not knowing I was a good spirit, he had me bound with a rope and thrown into the royal moat-river, and soaked me there three days and three nights.
言語相難: 相 = xiāng, 難 = nàn ("to put in difficulty"). Deictic 那御水河: 那 = nà; 河中 中 = zhōng.
多虧六甲金身救我歸西，奏與如來。
多亏六甲金身救我归西，奏与如来。
It was thanks to the Six-Jia spirits, who saved my golden body back to the West, that I reported it to the Tathāgata.
六甲金身 = the Six-Jia guardian spirits. 奏與如來 = "reported to the Tathāgata."
如來將此怪令到此處推他下井，浸他三年，以報吾三日水災之恨。
如来将此怪令到此处推他下井，浸他三年，以报吾三日水灾之恨。
The Tathāgata sent this monster with orders to come here and push him down the well, and soak him three years, in requital for my three days' water-woe.
將此怪令: coverb 將 = jiāng. 此處: 處 = chù. 水災之恨 = "the grievance of the water-calamity."
『一飲一啄，莫非前定。』
『一饮一啄，莫非前定。』
'A single sip, a single peck — none is not fore-ordained.'
一飲一啄，莫非前定 — a proverb (from 莊子) that every least thing is predestined; the frame for the whole tit-for-tat.
今得汝等來此，成了功績。」
今得汝等来此，成了功绩。」
Now that you and the rest have come here, the merit is accomplished."
今得汝等來此: 得 = dé. 成了功績 = "the meritorious work is done."
行者道：「你雖報了甚麼『一飲一啄』的私仇，但那怪物不知害了多少人也。」
行者道：「你虽报了甚么『一饮一啄』的私仇，但那怪物不知害了多少人也。」
Pilgrim said: "Even granting you've requited some private grudge of a 'sip and a peck,' still that monster has done to death no telling how many people."
甚麼: 甚 = shén. Deictic 那怪物: 那 = nà. 私仇 = "a private grudge."
菩薩道：「也不曾害人。
菩萨道：「也不曾害人。
The Bodhisattva said: "He did no harm to anyone, either.
也不曾害人 = "never harmed a soul."
自他到後，這三年間，風調雨順，國泰民安，何害人之有？」
自他到后，这三年间，风调雨顺，国泰民安，何害人之有？」
Since he came, in these three years the winds have been timely and the rains in season, the land at peace and the people secure — what harm to anyone is there in that?"
三年間: 間 = jiān. 風調雨順: 調 = tiáo ("in tune, favourable"). 國泰民安 = "realm at peace, people at ease."
行者道：「固然如此，但只三宮娘娘與他同眠同起，點污了他的身體，壞了多少綱常倫理，還叫做不曾害人？」
行者道：「固然如此，但只三宫娘娘与他同眠同起，点污了他的身体，坏了多少纲常伦理，还叫做不曾害人？」
Pilgrim said: "Granted it's so — but the three palace consorts have slept and risen with him, defiling his body and wrecking no end of the bonds and moral order. Do you still call that harming no one?"
三宮娘娘 = the three palace ladies. 綱常倫理: 常 = cháng (the Confucian cardinal bonds). 還叫做: 還 = hái.
菩薩道：「點污他不得，他是個騸了的獅子。」
菩萨道：「点污他不得，他是个骟了的狮子。」
The Bodhisattva said: "He could not have defiled him — he is a gelded lion."
點污他不得: 得 = dé (potential, "cannot"). 騸了的獅子: 騸 = shàn ("gelded"); suffix 子 = zi.
八戒聞言，走近前，就摸了一把。
八戒闻言，走近前，就摸了一把。
Eight Rules, hearing this, went up close and had a feel — a single grope.
摸了一把 = "gave it one feel" — the pig's characteristic bit of business.
笑道：「這妖精真個是糟鼻子不吃酒──枉擔其名了。」
笑道：「这妖精真个是糟鼻子不吃酒──枉担其名了。」
He laughed: "This fiend is truly a 'red-nose that drinks no wine' — he's borne the name for nothing."
糟鼻子不吃酒 = a proverb, "a wine-flushed nose on a teetotaller"; 枉擔其名: 擔 = dān ("to bear [a name]," the verb — not the dàn of "a load").
行者道：「既如此，收了去罷。
行者道：「既如此，收了去罢。
Pilgrim said: "If that's so, take him off, then.
收了去 = "take him away." Final 罷 = ba.
若不是菩薩親來，決不饒他性命。」
若不是菩萨亲来，决不饶他性命。」
Had you not come in person, Bodhisattva, I'd surely not have spared his life."
若不是菩薩親來 = "but for your own coming." 決不饒他性命 = "would by no means have spared him."
總評 Commentary
Mañjuśrī's explanation reframes the whole chapter as a karmic ledger. The usurpation was not a fiend's freelance villainy but a sanctioned requital: the king of Wūjī, pious as he was, had once had Mañjuśrī — come in the guise of a begging monk — bound and soaked three days in the moat; and so the Tathāgata dispatched the lion to soak him three years in the well, "a single sip, a single peck — none is not fore-ordained." The proverb (ultimately from the 莊子) is the doctrinal key: in the novel's moral universe nothing, not even a king's three-year death, falls outside the exact accounting of cause and effect.
Wukong presses the obvious objection — the beast has surely done harm — and is answered on two fronts, each characteristic of the book. To the charge of misrule, Mañjuśrī replies that under the lion the realm in fact enjoyed "timely winds and seasonable rains," peace and plenty; the usurper governed well, which is the chapter's most unsettling irony. To the charge of defiling the queens, he replies that the lion is gelded — and the novel immediately punctures its own solemnity with Bajie's investigative grope and his proverb about the "red-nose that drinks no wine." High doctrine and low comedy share the same breath, and the ledger balances: the debt paid, the beast reclaimed by its master, and only the formal leave-taking left to close the tale.