人天眼目 3.24

3.24

Jiyin said: "As the Way has increasingly declined, even the designations of the ranks have become erroneously scrambled and out of order. For example, 'the partial within the upright', 'the upright within the partial', and further 'arriving from within the upright', 'arrival within the partial', and then concluding with 'attainment within integration' to make up the Five Ranks in total. Nowadays, people substitute 'arrival within the partial' with 'arrival within integration'—I do not know what they take it to mean! Yet old masters and veteran monks calmly take no notice of the anomaly; it is truly laughable." (From a colophon in Wenzi chan on the sayings of Yunju Hongjue.)