四分律行事鈔資持記 1.140

1.140

遮妄增者。此即聖意懸鑒未來，各興解釋，必乖本趣，故此止之。初敘妄增。不急務者，即世現行諸家章記，或廣張法相、或多雜俗書，顛覆祖宗，繄昏智眼，請詳聖訓，自可鑒之。使下，次顯過患。上句明壞教。今鈔始終盡稽聖典，故曰真宗。次句明迷行。教行兩亡，則破戒造惡，非沙門行，如鳥鼠焉。此出《佛藏經》，彼明比丘不修戒行，非道非俗，猶如蝙蝠，非鳥非鼠，具引如〈篇聚〉中。意謂此鈔既興，人知持奉；由彼穢雜，後進還迷，故云復存也。茲日，通指斯時。即今學者專攻章記，爭馳講論，以為己能。身作重夷，口護輕吉。自謂精明盜相，反侵損於四方；善達婬科，更荒迷於三道；昏飡饜飫，尚說過中；夕飲酕醄，猶談酒制；人前斂相，詐現威容；屏處為非，略無畏忌。此徒擊目，豈是誣言。良由章記之乖訛，復是師承之庸鄙。不令教於不令，一盲導於眾盲；皇祖真宗，於茲殆絕；一尋此意，不覺嗟呼！因筆斯文，益增哽痛；自非聖鑒，孰見余心。悲夫！

"Blocking wrongful additions": This refers to the Sage's intention foreseeing the future, in which people would each bring forth explanations that would inevitably contravene the original purpose, and therefore he halted this here. First, it recounts wrongful additions. "Matters of non-urgent concern" refers to the commentaries and records of the various lineages currently circulating in the world, which either broadly expand dharmalakṣaṇas or heavily mix in secular texts, overturning the patriarchal teachings and dimming the eye of wisdom. I request that one examine the Sage's instructions, and one can naturally see it for oneself. From "Causing" downward, it next reveals the faults and harms. The upper clause clarifies destroying the teaching. This manual from beginning to end consults authentic scriptures in all matters, hence it is called the "true lineage." The next clause clarifies losing one's way in practice. When both teaching and practice are lost, one violates precepts and commits evil, which is not the practice of a śramaṇa, just like birds and bats. This comes from the Fo cang jing (Sūtra of the Buddha's Treasury), which clarifies that a bhikṣu who does not cultivate precept-practice is neither monastic nor lay, just like a bat, which is neither bird nor mouse, cited fully as in the chapter "Pianju" (Classes and Aggregates). The meaning is that once this manual was compiled, people knew how to uphold and observe it; yet due to those defilements and confusions, later students would again lose their way, hence it says "still extant." "These days" refers generally to the present time. Today's scholars exclusively apply themselves to commentaries and records, vying to rush into lectures and debates, taking them to be their own abilities. In body they commit grave pārājikas, while with their mouths they guard against minor duṣkṛtas. They consider themselves lucid regarding the marks of stealing, yet they conversely infringe upon and damage [the property of] the four quarters; they are well versed in the categories of sexual misconduct, yet become further dissipated and confused in the three passages; dining in the dark to repletion, they still speak of [not eating] past midday; drinking to drunkenness in the evening, they nevertheless discourse on the alcohol prohibition; before others they compose their appearance, deceitfully displaying a majestic demeanor; in private places they commit wrongdoing, with scarcely any fear or dread. That this strikes the eye of this cohort—how could it be false speech! It is truly due to the errors of commentaries and records, and again to the vulgarity and baseness of their lineage teachers. The unprincipled teaching the unprincipled—one blind person leading a crowd of blind people; our Imperial Patriarch's true lineage is virtually extinct here! As soon as one ponders this meaning, one cannot help but sigh! As my brush sets down these words, choking sorrow increases all the more; unless witnessed by a sage, who could see my heart? Alas!