禪林寶訓 3.5

3.5

Xuetang said to Master Hui'an Guang: "When I was twenty years of age, I met the lay practitioner Jiandu, who said: 'If there is no master within, one cannot stand; if there is no rectitude without, one cannot act. These words should be put into practice throughout one's entire life; then the undertakings of sages and worthies will be complete.' I kept his words in mind: cultivating myself at home and studying the Way after leaving the household, even to leading the assembly by personal example, just as the balance-scale determines weight and the compass and carpenter's square form circles and squares. If one abandons this, then in every matter one loses the standard."