佛祖統紀 3.80

3.80

信解品云。時長者將欲誘引其子（既息大化不欲孤棄）密遣二人（隱實為密。用權為遣。聲聞緣覺為二人）形色憔悴（二乘不修相好）無威德者（無十力無畏）徐語窮子（小教迂隱為徐語）顧汝除糞（苦集之糞）時二使人即求窮子（審知有机）既已得之具陳上事（陳說顧作）時窮子先取其價。尋與除糞（取道滅之價）其父見子愍而怪之（愍其取阿羅漢。怪其不求佛道。已上並是齊教領。此下為探領）又以他日於窓牖中（偏見狹小）遙見子身（小去大遠為遙見）羸瘦憔悴（智福力少曰羸。內怖無常曰瘦。外遭入苦曰惟悴）糞土塵坌（四住為糞土無知為塵坌）污穢不淨（久知方便示是玩好）即脫瓔珞細軟上服（隱報身戒定慧等瓔珞寂滅忍上服）更著粗弊垢膩之衣（丈六形為粗。生法二忍為弊。忍有情惱。名為生忍。忍無情惱。名為法忍。謂寒熱風雨等屬法○粗作麁俗）右手執持除糞之器（治見思有漏之法。左喻實。右喻權）語諸作人（親教子作）汝等勤作。好自安意。我如汝父（似像未實）汝今已後。如所生子（隣真逼聖即世第一位）時窮子雖欣此遇。猶故自謂客作賤人（自知不任紹大）二十年中常令除糞（見諦一解脫一無礙。思惟九解脫。九無礙。共為二十○已上注並出文句）此領何義。此為次頓之後隱舍那身作比丘像說三藏教。二十年中常令除糞。得一日之價。見思已斷。無漏心淨（妙玄十）。

The Chapter on Faith and Understanding states: At that time, the elder, desiring to lure his son (having suspended the great transformation, he did not wish to abandon him forever), secretly dispatched two men (concealing the real is "secret"; using expedients is "dispatched"; the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas are the "two men"), of emaciated and haggard appearance (the two vehicles do not cultivate the major and minor marks), lacking dignity and virtue (lacking the ten powers and fearlessnesses), who spoke gently to the poor son (the lesser teaching being indirect and concealed is "spoke gently"): "We will hire you to clear away dung" (the dung of suffering and origin). Then the two emissaries sought out the poor son (having carefully discerned that he had the capacity); once they found him, they fully related the aforesaid matter (announcing the hired work). The poor son first took his wage, and soon cleared away the dung with them (taking the wage of path and cessation). His father saw his son and, pitying him, wondered at him (pitying his adopting the arhat state, and wondering at his not seeking the Buddha path; the above are all understanding the teaching on its own level; what follows is understanding in advance). Then, on another day, through a window (narrow, biased view) he saw his son's body from afar (the lesser being far removed from the great is "seeing from afar"), lean, emaciated, and haggard (having little power of wisdom and merit is "lean"; internally terrified of impermanence is "emaciated"; externally beset by entry into suffering is "haggard"), covered with dung, soil, dust, and dirt (the four dwellings are "dung and soil"; nescience is "dust and dirt"), defiled and unclean (having long known expedients, he displayed these toys); he then took off his necklaces and fine, soft upper garments (concealing the necklaces of the reward body's morality, samādhi, wisdom, and the upper garments of extinction-forbearance), and put on coarse, worn, soiled, and greasy clothes (the sixteen-foot form is "coarse"; the two forbearances regarding beings and phenomena are "worn"; bearing the afflictions caused by sentient beings is called forbearance of beings; bearing the afflictions caused by non-sentient things is called forbearance of phenomena, meaning cold, heat, wind, rain, etc. belong to phenomena; "coarse" is written 麁 in popular form), holding in his right hand a dung-clearing utensil (the methods to treat view-and-thought conditioned outflows; the left symbolizes the real, the right symbolizes the expedient). He said to the laborers (instructing his son in person): "Work diligently! Put your mind at ease. I am like a father to you (a likeness, not yet real); from now on you are like my own begotten son" (nearing the true and pressing toward the sage, namely the highest worldly position). Although the poor son rejoiced at this encounter, he still considered himself a hired menial (knowing himself unfit to inherit the great); for twenty years he was constantly made to clear away dung (one liberation and one unhinderedness in seeing the truths, and nine liberations and nine unhinderednesses in cultivating the truths, together making twenty; all the notes above are drawn from the Wenju). What meaning does this convey? This means that subsequent to the sudden, he concealed the Rocana body, assumed the form of a monk, and expounded the Tripiṭaka teaching; for twenty years they were constantly made to clear away dung, receiving the wage of a single day: view and thought were severed, and the outflow-free mind was purified (Miao xuan, fascicle 10).