佛祖歷代通載 20.102

20.102

屏山曰。自孔孟云亡。儒者不談大道。一千五百年矣。豈浮圖氏之罪耶。至於近代始以佛書訓釋老莊。浸及語孟詩書大易。豈非諸君子所悟之道亦從此入乎。張子幡然為反噬之說。其亦弗仁甚矣。謂聖人不修而至。大道不學而知。夫子自道也歟。詖淫邪遁之辭。亦將有所歸矣。所謂有大過人之才者。王氏父子蘇氏兄弟是也。負心如此。寧可計較是非於得失乎。政坐為死生心所流轉耳。

Pingshan said: 'Since the demise of Confucius and Mencius, Confucians have not spoken of the Great Way for fifteen hundred years. How could this be the fault of the Buddhists? Coming down to recent times, scholars first began to gloss Laozi and Zhuangzi with Buddhist texts, and gradually extended this to the *Analects*, the *Mencius*, the *Odes*, the *Documents*, and the *Classic of Changes*. Is it not the case that the Way awakened to by these gentlemen was also entered through this gate? That Master Zhang should suddenly turn around and launch this biting counterattack is truly unbenevolent in the extreme! To claim that "the sage is attained without cultivation, and the Great Way is known without learning"—is this not what the Master himself said? The "biased, extravagant, heretical, and evasive words" will also find their rightful place. As for those who possess "talent far exceeding ordinary men," they are the Wangs, father and son, and the Su brothers. To turn against their origins like this—how could they dispute right and wrong or weigh gains and losses? It is precisely because they are swept along in the cycle of the mind of birth and death!'