Acknowledgments, First Edition
Acknowledgments, Revised Edition
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26 Amid the Three Islands Sun Wukong seeks a cure;
With sweet dew Guanshiyin revives a tree.
27 The cadaver demon three times mocks Tripitaka Tang;
The holy monk in spite banishes Handsome Monkey King.
28 At Flower-Fruit Mountain a pack of fiends hold assembly;
At Black Pine Forest Tripitaka meets demons.
29 Free of his peril, River Float arrives at the kingdom;
Receiving favor, Eight Rules invades the forest.
30 A deviant demon attacks the true Dharma;
The Horse of the Will recalls Mind Monkey.
31 Zhu Eight Rules provokes Monkey King to chivalry;
Pilgrim Sun with wisdom defeats the monster.
32 On Level-Top Mountain the sentinel brings a message;
At Lotus-Flower Cave Wood Mother meets disaster.
33 Heresy deludes the True Nature;
Primal Spirit helps the Native Mind.
34 The demon king’s plotting entraps Mind Monkey;
The Great Sage, ever adroit, wangles the treasures.
35 Heresy uses power to oppress the proper Nature;
Mind Monkey, bagging treasures, conquers deviate demons.
36 When Mind Monkey is rectified, the nidānas cease;
Smash through the side door to view the bright moon.
37 The ghost king visits Tripitaka Tang at night;
Wukong, through wondrous transformation, leads the child.
38 The child queries his mother to learn of deviancy and truth;
Metal and Wood, reaching the deep, see the false and the real.
39 One pellet of cinnabar elixir found in Heaven;
A king, dead three years, lives again on Earth.
40 The child’s playful transformations confuse the Chan Mind;
Ape, Horse, Spatula gone, Wood Mother, too, is lost.
41 Mind Monkey is defeated by fire;
Wood Mother is captured by demons.
42 The Great Sage diligently calls at South Sea;
Guanyin with compassion binds the Red Boy.
43 An evil demon at Black River captures the monk;
The Western Ocean’s dragon prince catches the iguana.
44 The dharma-body in primal cycle meets the force of the cart;
The mind, righting monstrous deviates, crosses the spine-ridge pass.
45 At the Three Pure Ones Abbey the Great Sage leaves his name;
At the Cart Slow Kingdom the Monkey King shows his power.
46 Heresy flaunts its strength to mock orthodoxy;
Mind Monkey in epiphany slays the deviates.
47 The holy monk’s blocked at night at Heaven-Reaching River;
Metal and Wood, in compassion, rescue little children.
48 The demon, raising a cold wind, sends a great snow fall;
The monk, intent on seeing Buddha, walks on layered ice.
49 Tripitaka meets disaster and sinks to a water home;
To bring salvation, Guanyin reveals a fish basket.
50 Nature follows confused feelings through lust and desire;
Spirit faints, mind moves—he meets a demon chief.
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