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復次，如來行時，帝釋在右，梵王在左，金剛前導，四部後從，飛空而行。老自御薄板青牛車，向關西作田；莊為他所使，看守漆樹。如此舉動，復云何齊？如來定為轉輪聖帝，四海顒顒；待神寶至，忽此榮位，出家得佛。老仕關東悋小吏之職，墾農關西，惜數畝之田；公私怱遽，不能棄此，云何言齊？

Furthermore, when the Tathāgata walked, Śakra was on his right, Brahmā was on his left, Vajra led the way before him, the fourfold assembly followed behind, and he traveled through the sky. Laozi himself drove a thin-boarded green ox cart, heading west of the pass to farm; Zhuangzi was employed by others, guarding lacquer trees. In such actions, how could they again be equal? The Tathāgata was destined to be a wheel-turning sage king, looked up to by all within the four seas; awaiting the arrival of the divine treasures, he suddenly abandoned this glorious rank, left home, and attained Buddhahood. Laozi served east of the pass, begrudging a petty official post, and farmed west of the pass, prizing a few acres of fields; busy with public and private matters, he could not relinquish these—how can they be said to be equal?