四分律行事鈔資持記 1.1097

1.1097

分房法中。三時分易，西土常儀。將恐保著生常，不思厭世；薄情遣滯，莫先此法；東華不爾，故所絕聞。或共止一堂，頗符水乳；或別房各住，而不異俗流。且君子安遷，小人懷土。況出世高逸，反更守株！致使聖訓空存，行儀永墜，嗚呼！

In the procedure for allocating rooms: reallocating at the three seasons was the standard practice in the Western lands. It was feared that attachment would foster complacency and one would not contemplate world-weariness; for thinning desires and banishing stagnation, nothing surpasses this method. In the Eastern land it is not so, and thus it is entirely unheard of. Some stay together in a single hall, matching like water and milk; or they live separately in individual rooms, no different from the laity. Even an exemplary person relocates contentedly, whereas a petty person clings to his native soil. How much more should those of lofty detachment beyond the world not turn back to watch the stump! This has led to the sacred instructions standing empty, and the behavioral standards being forever discarded. Alas!