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The Precious Scroll of Good-in-Talent and Dragon Girl 175 monk, 19 you’re bound to die. Quickly allow me to eat you!’’ Good-in- Talent replied: ‘‘We have asked only one person; that’s not enough testimony. We still have to ask two more people. If they all say that a favor is repaid by a feud, it’s still not too late to eat me. Don’t be so eager! I cannot escape from you anyway. You, old man, you say that a favor is repaid by a feud. I really don’t understand why that is the case. Please explain it to me, so I may die in peace.’’ The old man said: ‘‘I will explain it to you. I happen to be the Golden Buffalo Astral Official, the Great Strength King. Originally I was not willing to descend to the mortal world, because I knew that the ten sins of the living beings of this world are unpardonable. It was all because of the boundless vow of Lord Kṡitigarbha to ferry the people across. 20 He saw that the living beings of the eastern world bloodied their hands in digging the soil and planting the fields. In tears he urged me to descend to the mortal world and assist the living beings. When we arrived at the southern gate of heaven, I saw how the evil miasma of the living beings rose up to heaven. They definitely repay favors with feuds! But the boundless vow of Lord Kṡitigarbha was deep, and he said: ‘They surely repay a favor with a favor. It is not possible that they repay a favor with a feud. If I am unable to see such living beings, may my two eyes fall down upon the ground!’ He strongly encouraged me to go down to the mortal world, and when I was not paying attention, he pushed me out the gate of heaven! When I crashed to the ground, I lost all teeth in my upper jaw. When the living beings saw how great my strength was, they pulled a rope through my nose to lead me hither and thither to pull the plow and drag the harrow. Whenever I walked just a little bit slow, they would whip me with a green bough and curse me, calling me a ‘rotten cow.’ Whenever I stopped for even a moment, they would curse me, calling me a ‘lazy cow.’ Whenever I felt hungry and ate a mouthful of grass, they would curse me, calling me a ‘thievish cow.’ And then when I grew old and could no longer do any work, they wanted to kill me and flay my skin, pull out my tendons, and eat my flesh. That’s the extent to which they are devoid of a conscience! Now that I have told you this, is it the rule that a favor is repaid by a favor, or that a favor is repaid by a feud? Because Lord Kṡitigarbha could not see the evil of the living beings of the eastern word, and had earlier made a vow, both his eyes fell down to the earth. There they turned into snails, which are trampled by buffaloes. It’s all too pitiable, too saddening, too bad!
176 The Precious Scroll of Good-in-Talent and Dragon Girl ‘‘It’s too saddening: these evil men are without foundation, They don’t want to repay a favor, they repay it with a feud. I pulled the plow and dragged the harrow, heavy as rocks, But the eight-foot-long hempen whip whipped my back. If the soil was too heavy or the water too deep to plow, And my tears would stream down because of my hunger, They would constantly curse me in language most foul, With every word they would curse me: ‘You rotten cow!’ My only wish was to rest for a while in the early morning: ‘You don’t do a thing from midnight till the hour of noon!’ When I was hungry and ate of the grass that grows by the field, All the laborers, old and young, cursed me: ‘You thievish cow!’ All I got to eat throughout the year was only straw, whereas The rice and grain I helped plant was all harvested by others. The white rice they harvested was cooked as food and eaten, The glutinous rice was made into wine to entertain friends. Millet and rice and cotton flowers—all was provided for, Beans and wheat and sesame seeds—all were harvested. But when bringing home a bride or marrying off a daughter, The first thought if money was short was to sell off the buffalo. When they saw that I had grown old and lacked strength, They sold me to the butcher so he could turn me into beef. I was tightly bound with a hempen rope and hit with an axe, My skin was flayed, my flesh was cut—what feud did we have? My tears gushed down as I was totally overcome by pain, My four legs all facing up to the sky and my life now gone. When my skin was flayed, it was made into a booming drum, Which scares Heaven and Earth, distressing ghosts and gods. I will take revenge on the people who killed me, and I Refuse to forgive and forget the people who dined on me. This is how evil the heart is of the people in this world: You do them a favor and they will repay you with a feud.’’ When the snake-sprite heard this story, she wiggled her head and whipped her tail and said: ‘‘Fine! Fine! Fine! I’m really starving. Little monk, quickly relieve a little of the hunger in my belly!’’ Good-in-Talent said to her: ‘‘I’ve told you this before. We will ask three people, and you can eat me only if they all say that a favor is repaid by a feud. Now we have asked only one person, so how can you want to eat me right away? After we have asked three people,
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