注維摩詰經 2.101

2.101

什曰：昔有一賤人來入城邑，見一人服飾嚴淨、乘大馬、執寶蓋，唱言：「不好。」乃至再三。彼人怪而問曰：「我嚴淨如是，汝何言不好耶？」賤人曰：「君宿殖德本，獲此果報。威德被服，人所宗仰。我昔不種福，鄙陋如是。以我比君，猶如禽獸，故自言不好耳，非毀君也。」賤人因是感厲，廣修福業。形尊悟物，所益以弘，況以道法化人哉。肇曰：福力微淺，故生庶民也。

[Kumāra]jīva says: Formerly, a lowly person entered a city and saw a man elegantly attired, riding a great horse, and holding a jeweled canopy; he called out, 'Not good!'—doing so two or three times. The man wondered at this and asked: 'I am so adorned and splendid; why do you say it is not good?' The lowly person replied: 'Sir, in past lives you cultivated the roots of virtue and attained this retribution. Your authority and virtue clothe you, and people look up to you. In the past I did not plant merit, so I am this base and wretched. Comparing myself to you is like comparing beasts to a human; thus I was speaking of my own lack of goodness, not disparaging you.' Because of this, the lowly person was spurred to action and broadly cultivated meritorious karma. If bodily eminence can awaken beings and bring such vast benefit, how much more so transforming people through the Dharma of the Way! [Seng]zhao says: Because their power of merit is weak and shallow, they are born as commoners.