四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.260

3.260

Accordingly, it is further explained that one should respectfully protect the three robes and all requisites, conceiving them entirely as a stūpa, reverently holding and guarding them; furthermore, shaving the hair and dyeing the robes embody the true intent of the precept essence; in walking, coming, looking down, and looking up, one should compose and collect one's bodily deportment; in eating, drinking, giving, and working, one's mind should always be mindful of the Dharma. If one is mindful and practices in this way, laypeople will never be able to slight or despise him, or disrupt him unlawfully. Even for worthy persons in the mundane world, whose inner minds are firm and upright and who possess outward deportment, they are still regarded with reverence and solemnity, so that no one dares insult or mock them (just as Duke Wen revered Duan Ganmu, or Liu Bei esteemed Zhuge Kongming); how much more so for the transcendent persons of the Way, who don the Dharma robes of the Buddha and traverse the paths walked by the Buddha, whose deportment is dignified and orderly, causing those who see them to give rise to goodness—who would not revere them? If anyone treats them with contempt and ridicule, it is entirely due to their own lapse; thus we know that [when proper] there is none who does not revere them! Where there is reverence, there is decorum; how could it merely be respectful restraint, for it also secretly attracts provisions of sustenance? (If the field is truly rich and fertile, one need not seek seeds, for the seeds will fall into it on their own; if the Way is pure and complete, one need not require provisions, for provisions will invisibly rely upon it). Viewed from this, to be despised by laypeople is not the fault of others; it is because the Dharma has perished in one's own person that one allows the noble and lowly to encroach upon and insult him! If one can understand the Dharma and protect it, everyone will look up to him as a master, and who would dare insult or disdain him? (When showing deference to noble persons in accordance with the Way, one must not stand up to welcome them or see them off, nor sit together on the same couch; one may only sit majestically, steadying them through the Way; nor should one give rise to arrogance)!