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宋高僧傳 23.22

宋高僧傳 23.22

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Classical Chinese

23.22

系曰:《處胎經》中菩薩禪定攝意,入火界三昧,愚惑眾生謂為菩薩遭劫火燒,是也。比丘實未及此,無象此以惑人。如能用少芻𮓐能焚巨骸,則可信矣!故書曰:「民無胥譸張為幻。」吁哉!

The appraisal says: In the Chutai jing, when a bodhisattva concentrates his thoughts in dhyāna meditation and enters the fire-realm samādhi, foolish and deluded sentient beings claim that the bodhisattva was consumed by the kalpa fire; this refers to that. A monk who has not truly reached this level should not feign it to delude others. If one can use a little bundle of grass to burn a great corpse, that may indeed be believed! Thus the Classic of Documents says: 'Let not the people mutually deceive and fabricate illusions.' Alas!

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