弘明集 7.11

7.11

論云。既不全同又不全異。下棄妻拏上廢宗祀。疑曰。若夫廢祀於上。不能絕棄於下。此自擬異入同。非同者之過也。寧可見犁牛不。登宗廟之用而。永棄於牢餼之具耶。

The treatise says: "[The Buddhists] are neither entirely the same nor entirely different: below, they abandon wives and children; above, they discard the ancestral sacrifices." The objection says: As for discarding sacrifices above and failing to abandon [attachments] below, this is assimilating difference into sameness on one's own part; it is not the fault of what is the same. Could one, seeing that a brindled ox is not fit for the ancestral temple, forever cast it aside from being an animal for the sacrificial pen?