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The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 2 117 A youth and a maiden, holding a flag, came forward to guide her, And following those two she went on with her journey. First she passed the mighty pass of the Gate of Ghosts, Even a man made of iron would feel grief at this sight! The bureaus of the Three Officials allow no corruption, The heads of the eighteen hells know no mercy at all. She then saw the iron-bed and bronze-pillar prisons, and The knife-mountain and sword-tree, both white like silver. The boiling vats and red-hot ovens would scare anyone, The freezing cold and the body-saws fill one with fear! In front of the karma-mirror you see your own sins, And not the slightest crime of sin here allows for mercy. A myriad kalpas of death and birth—but no one cares! After your life of a hundred years you alone will grieve. Male and female ghostly prisoners, millions without number, Wailed and cried and wept and hollered like cackling geese. Just think of the thousands of tortures of the earth-prisons: Who of us will avoid falling down and not visit that place? She then passed below the Mountain of Wasted Money, 16 And in the City of Those Who Died Unjustly met with her nuns, Who complained and cried foul while clutching her gown: ‘‘It’s all because of you that we had to die before our time! If you escape from the three worlds, first ferry us across, Then we’ll be reconciled, and have no cause for complaint!’’ The princess immediately addressed these nuns as follows: ‘‘Dear fellow nuns, please listen to what I have to say. Since ancient times, birth has always been followed by death, The only difference being whether death comes sooner or later. If you want to avoid going through the court of King Yama, You must have completely realized the Truth of Emptiness.’’ The youth and maiden of the Office of Goodness led the princess by the Mountain of Wasted Money. In the City of Those Who Died Unjustly she ran into some nuns, who grabbed her gown and loudly cried: ‘‘We are here because of you! We died unjustly and sank down to this place where we suffer terribly!’’ The princess said: ‘‘You and I had no argument in earlier days, and there is no enmity between us now. The terms of birth and death are fixed, and when that date arrives, your body collapses. Good and evil have their karmic retribution, which you have to suffer yourself. What does it
118 ThePreciousScrollofIncenseMountain,Part2 have to do with me?’’ The nuns said: ‘‘Even though that all may be so, we still hope that you in your kind compassion will save us and ferry us across so we may be reborn in heaven.’’ When you’re deluded, you wander in darkness on the six pathways; 17 Once you’re enlightened, in Emptiness there is no coming or going. Namo Guanshiyin pusa ‘‘Turn around and you find the road to the Western Paradise! All that’s needed is for a person to be sincere in his vow!’’ The princess right then and there pronounced a great vow, Vowing to ferry across the nuns and free them from suffering: ‘‘If this disciple successfully achieves the right fruit, may All buddhas of a thousand worlds descend to this darkness!’’ As soon as she spoke her vow, she received a response, as Red and white lotus flowers opened and filled the city walls. The bodhisattva Kṡitigarbha then addressed her as follows: 18 ‘‘Hail to Your Highness! Tell me, what brings you here?’’ The princess greeted him with a bow and promptly replied, As with lowered head and palms pressed together she said: ‘‘Kind reverend, many thanks for descending in person And manifesting your golden body in this world of hells. My only wish is that these nuns may leave this earth-prison, And ascend to heaven to wander in freedom and joy.’’ As soon as the princess had pronounced her vow, she saw a bright light, dazzling and blinding. A hundred musicians all played in unison, and the world of the hells was filled with white and red lotus flowers. In the hall of King Yama appeared a five-colored auspicious light. At that time the bodhisattva Kṡitigarbha, seated on his maṅi throne, emitted a huge white light, which banished the darkness of the earth-prisons. The yakṡas bowed their hands, and the prison guards kowtowed. The princess quickly curtsied, and said: ‘‘Great Teacher, when your disciple first left the family, the convent to which she belonged was called White Sparrow. Because I disobeyed my father’s command, he tried to burn the convent to the ground, which frightened some nuns to death. This is my fault, and I hope that in your kind compassion you will save them and ferry them
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