Sanzang, Delivered, Crosses a Border; A Grateful Pig Tours Mountains and Forests

Sanzang, Delivered, Crosses a Border A Grateful Pig Tours Mountains and Forests A poem says If wild thoughts are not firmly suppressed There is no point in seeking for the Truth; If you wish to cultivate your nature before the Buddha, Why stay halfway between awakening and confusion? Once awakened you can achieve the Right in an instant; The confused will drift for ten thousand aeons. If you can invoke the Buddha and cultivate the Truth, Sins countless as the Ganges sands can be wiped out. Pig and Friar Sand had fought thirty inconclusive rounds with the monster. Do you know why they were inconclusive? As far as skill went not even twenty monks, let alone two, would have been a match for that evil spirit. Yet because the Tang Priest was not fated to die he was being secretly protected by Dharma‑guarding deities. There were also the Six Dings, the Six Jias, the Revealers of the Truth of the Five Regions, the Four Duty Gods, and the Eighteen Defenders of the Faith helping Pig and Friar Sand in mid‑air. We must leave the three of them locked in struggle and return to......