Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her ... - Khamkoo

The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 2 103
Before the monastery, the horse is tied up at the Hall of Universal
Light,
Outside the gate, the buffalo is tethered at the site of Right
Enlightenment. 3
Namo Guanshiyin pusa
The princess immediately answered in the following way:
‘‘My dear mother, now please listen to what I have to say.
It’s not that your daughter is lacking in loyalty and filiality,
It is because of birth and death that I disobey my parents.
I am happy to sacrifice my life once, dying under the sword,
So I may transcend the myriad kalpas and escape saṁsāra.
I do not crave the wealth and status of the imperial palace,
My eager vow is that I want to enter the gate of nirvana!
Let them cut this illusory body with knives and swords,
My original nature is perfect and bright, fully indivisible!
Let my father issue thousands of commands and orders,
I refuse, with all my heart, to return to the imperial palace!
Indeed, even if he decided that my life should be spared,
I’d be filled with fear at his sight—I’d never be at peace.
Today the love between mother and daughter is finished,
But we’ll meet again in a later life, a coming existence.’’
The princess answered her mother as follows: ‘‘I have heard that the
ancient sutras say, ‘As long as there is attachment, there is birth.
When attachment is exhausted, annihilation follows.’ Alas, each
and every one in this world craves life, and each and every one fears
death. But if one day Impermanence arrives, one’s soul departs for
the Underworld, the realm of the king of ghosts, without anything
to free oneself from karma. Life in this world is empty and insubstantial,
like the dew on flowers; a bubble on water, it resembles
a particle of dust on a plant. Husband and wife are enemies from a
former life, and sons and daughters are like a karmic debt. Mother,
please listen to me: the suffering of death is unavoidable. Don’t miss
this opportunity, and quickly make your provisions for the future.
Even if you have filial sons and obedient grandsons, they cannot
take your place when Impermanence knocks. But if you are willing
to sacrifice this body and practice the Way, you’ll achieve the bodhi
of buddhahood. I refuse to return to the palace today and marry
some prince consort!’’ When Marvelous Book and Marvelous Sound