四分律行事鈔資持記 2.1564

2.1564

八中，初標。前後，即約時也。次釋，有二，上約在滅以論。下約三時而說。正法千年，具教理行果；像法千年，闕果；末法萬年，闕行果；人根轉濁，漸劣可知。以下，引證。《付法藏傳》，第五祖師，度人既多，時人號為無相好佛。（行化同佛，但無相好。）掘多意謂與佛同等，時有老尼，見佛在時事，多往問之；彼尼先以器盛油，安戶扉後；掘多入房，傾油數滴；多問尼云：佛在世時，所化何如我耶？尼云：佛世六群，數入我房，未嘗傾油一滴；今尊者弗及六群；鈔撮其意，如文所云。掘多，亦云毱多。

In the eighth, first it designates [the topic]. 'Before and after' refers to the periods of time. Next, in the explanation, there are two: the first discusses it in terms of the [Buddha's] presence and extinction; the lower part speaks in terms of the three periods. In the True Dharma of a thousand years, teaching, principle, practice, and fruit were fully complete; in the Semblance Dharma of a thousand years, fruit was lacking; in the Final Dharma of ten thousand years, practice and fruit are lacking; human faculties become increasingly turbid, and their gradual inferiority can be known. Below, citing evidence: The *Fu fazang zhuan* records that the fifth patriarch liberated so many people that the people of the time called him the 'Buddha without Marks'. (His conduct in converting others was identical to the Buddha, only lacking the marks and signs.) Guptaka considered himself equal to the Buddha. At that time there was an old nun who had seen things when the Buddha was alive; he often went to ask her. That nun previously placed a vessel filled with oil behind the door leaf; when Guptaka entered the room, he spilled several drops of oil. Guptaka asked the nun: 'When the Buddha was in the world, how was his conversion compared to mine?' The nun said: 'In the Buddha's time, the group-of-six often entered my room without ever spilling a single drop of oil; today the Venerable One does not equal the group-of-six.' The Manual summarizes its meaning as stated in the text. Guptaka is also called Upagupta.