禪林寶訓 3.43

3.43

Miaoxi said: “When Foxing resided at Daguishan, a postulant got into a brawl with a tenant farmer. Foxing wanted to punish the postulant. Zu Chaoran thereupon said: ‘If you give free rein to the tenant farmer to humiliate the postulant, you will not only lose the proper distinction of superior and inferior status, but I deeply fear that petty people will seize the occasion to be insolent and contemptuous, and affairs will no longer be carried out.’ Foxing did not heed him. Before long, an estate laborer indeed murdered a director of affairs” (Ke'an ji).