四明十義書 2.199

2.199

故荊溪云：若卒無師氏，應以此文及《禪門》驗善惡相。又云：若近師氏，理須咨疑。近師氏者，既示近代行人，豈令親近智者大師耶？及善知識中云：行解具足，德在於彼。謂益我者，但在於解，故舉能說法轉人心者。又互發中云：若達三諦，何啻堪為世方等師。故此等說，為令行人親近師範，不教自讀其文以邪為正。

Thus Jingxi said: 'If you suddenly have no teacher, you should use this text and the Chanmen to test good and bad marks.' He also said: 'If you are close to a teacher, in principle you must consult him on doubts.' In speaking of 'drawing close to a teacher', since he was instructing practitioners of recent times, how could he have been telling them to draw close to Great Master Zhiyi? And in the section on the good friend, it says: 'Endowed with both practice and understanding, the virtue resides in that person.' This means that what benefits me lies solely in understanding; hence he cites those who can preach the Dharma to transform people's minds. Furthermore, under 'mutual arising', it says: 'If one penetrates the three truths, how could he merely be worthy of being a worldly master of the Vaipulya?' Thus such statements are intended to have practitioners draw close to a model teacher, not to instruct them to read the texts on their own and mistake the heterodox for the orthodox.