弘明集 8.27

8.27

夫天屬化始。乃識照為原。棄捨身命草木非數。然大地丘山莫非我故塵。滄川㵿漫皆是我淚血。以此而觀誰非親友。或夢見先亡。輒云變怪。夫人鬼雖別生滅固同。恩愛之情時復影響。群邪無狀不識逆順。召食鬼吏兵奏章斷之。割截幽靈單心誰照。幸願未來勿尚迷言。使天堂無輟食之思。氷河靜災念之聲。

The heavenly family has its origin in transformation, with consciousness and illumination as its root. Renouncing body and life, [the times we have done so] are beyond the number of grass and trees. Indeed, there is no mound or mountain on the great earth that is not our former dust; the vast rolling rivers are all our tears and blood. Looking at it this way, who is not our relative or friend? Yet when some see deceased ancestors in dreams, they immediately declare it an ominous anomaly. Although humans and ghosts are distinct, birth and cessation are truly the same; feelings of affection and love occasionally leave ripples and echoes. The wicked hordes have no decorum, not recognizing rebellion and compliance; summoning demon clerks and soldiers to eat, they present petitions to sever them. Cutting off unseen spirits, who illuminates their solitary heart? It is our earnest prayer that in the future, people will not value deluded words, so that the heavenly halls may have no thoughts of abandoned meals, and the icy rivers may quiet the sounds of calamitous pining.