四明十義書 2.125

2.125

只如五品是觀行成位，因誰得解？何不首伏昔迷，改邪向正，何得偷竊他義誑惑後生？若據上人如此用心，實非傳教之士。尚望人道之心千里不及，何能論於佛法耶？是知徒說令末代之機修於止觀，既自立至五品位方觀二境，則一切眾生無修觀之分也。輒將此之見識，與人論教觀廢立之意，還得也無？

Consider: through whom did you attain the understanding that the five grades are the stage where contemplative practice is perfected? Why not acknowledge and submit to your past delusion, turning from the perverse toward the correct? How can you steal another's meaning to deceive and confuse future generations? Judging by this attitude of yours, you are truly not a person who transmits the teachings. You fall short by a thousand leagues even of aspiring to the mind of the human realm; how could you discuss the Buddha-Dharma? From this we know that your talk of leading practitioners of the degenerate age to cultivate Zhiguan is futile: since you yourself established that only upon reaching the stage of the five grades does one contemplate the two objects, all sentient beings would have no share in cultivating contemplation! Taking such an understanding and arbitrarily debating with others the intent behind establishing and setting aside teachings and contemplations—can this even be permissible?