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The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 1 71 When her father the emperor went to see Marvelous Goodness, he didn’t say so out loud, but in his heart he was filled with somber musings, and he could not control the tears that dampened his brocade gown. In person he asked her: ‘‘My child, how pitiable you are! You forgot how you sat at the side of your father and mother, inside the Six Palaces, and how you enjoyed the most fragrant foods and drinks, and wore the most brilliantly yellow dragon robes, and inhabited the most colorful towers and terraces! Those who followed you were the prettiest maidens, and those who served you were elegant maids. Every day there were banquets at which the hundred musicians all played. What was ever lacking? If you now obey your father’s command and take a husband, when the time comes, I will raise him up so he may glorify the way of the emperor and rule the realm. You will enjoy all the good times of the whole world. Being a Son of Heaven for one day beats being a nobleman for ten thousand generations. What do you think of it? Or would you rather suffer abuse and humiliation?’’ When Marvelous Goodness heard these words, she promptly replied. To be hit in the eye by a wedge—who could endure that? Only someone of the Way will produce water from a fire. Namo Guanshiyin pusa The princess immediately replied in the following way: ‘‘My father and emperor, be so good as to return to the palace! Few understand the sound of the zither without strings, If you and I would play it, our tunes would not harmonize. I do not crave the wealth and status of the imperial palace, I want to be a ‘person of the Way’ within the Gate of Emptiness. I do not want to marry a man who will be Son of Heaven, I lack the luck to become the empress, his main consort. I want to wear the cassock of the Tathāgata Amitābha, 53 I do not want to wear the brocade gowns of the palace. Your child regards the three worlds as earth’s prison, So I will never take my body and marry it to some man. If I, your daughter, succeed in achieving the right fruit, I’ll repay my parents’ favors in the Hall of Universal Light. Here in the garden I have nothing to repay your favors, Yet you and mother have been so kind as to visit me.
72 ThePreciousScrollofIncenseMountain,Part1 I only hope that the heart-flower of my nature will open, When my work is done, my practice complete, I’ll return. Because of birth and death I am willing to brave any danger, I would not dare carry any grudge toward my sagely ruler.’’ The emperor said: ‘‘All children who do not follow their father’s counsel will be executed by Heaven and annihilated by Earth! You oppose me in a thousand ways! Where did you learn all those wild words and weird ideas? In my opinion, all those monks and nuns are nothing but lazy idlers from the common people, or widowers, widows, orphans, and other people without support, who are unable to make a living. So they dress themselves up in an outlandish costume, claiming the Buddha as cause. But they are all, to the very last man, disloyal and unfilial loafers and drifters who merit the death penalty! If you are imitating their kind of behavior, you are definitely damaging the state and disgracing the court! I order you to marry a prince consort who will become emperor. That will mean more wealth and status than if you ascended to heaven! What more could you want?’’ Marvelous Goodness replied: ‘‘When I read the golden writings and jade scrolls, they all state with dazzling clarity that all the buddhas of the three worlds and all the saints and sages of past and present abandoned the five desires and practiced the Way of the Great Vehicle. Once they achieved the universal and correct enlightenment, they universally assisted gods and men. I also read that Brahma and Indra wait on the Buddha to his left and right. 54 Ten kinds of immortals follow the Buddha as he teaches and delivers his sermons. The ninety-six kinds of heretical masters and the fifty kinds of Māra kings follow him and protect him. 55 Then there have been great kings and high ministers, gentlemen, farmers, artisans, and merchants, and old and young men and women who all, because they left the family, achieved the sagely fruit. You are not going to tell me that those were all loafers and drifters who could not make a living?’’ When her father the emperor heard these words, he indeed uttered not a single word, as he did not know what to answer. He could only suffer his defeat in silence and return to the palace. All the female relatives who had accompanied him followed him back. When the emperor had returned to the palace, he pondered this matter all through the night, but did not know what to do. So he ordered the two princesses Marvelous
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