[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102) › 8.29 # 弘明集 8.29 弘明集 8.29 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.29) 夫淵默心口者。萬行之真德。而塵界眾生率無慈愛。虓兇邪佞符章競作。懸門帖戶以誑愚俗。高賢有識未之安也。造黃神越章用持殺鬼。又制赤章用持殺人。趣悅世情不計殃罪。陰謀懷嫉經有舊准。死入鐵鉗大獄。生出鴟鵙瘖瘂。精骸惛朽。淪離永劫。誰知斯乎。老鬼民輩道相不然。事之宜質。夫諫刺雖苦。智者甘聞故略致言。幸試三思能拂迹改圖。即與大化同風矣。良其不革。請俟明德。備照聲曲。以曉長夜。豈是今日弱辭所陳哉。 > Indeed, keeping the mind and mouth in profound silence is the true virtue of the myriad practices. Yet sentient beings in the dusty realm generally lack compassion and love. Fierce, cruel, heterodox, and flattering, they vie to manufacture talismans and petitions, hanging them on gates and pasting them on doors to deceive the foolish vulgar; the noble and discerning find no peace in this. They fabricate the 'Yellow Spirit Seal of the Cross' to kill ghosts, and also create the 'Red Seal' to kill people. Courting worldly favor, they take no account of sins and retribution. Harboring jealousy in dark plots is already established by former standards in the scriptures: in death they enter the great hell of iron pincers; reborn, they become shrikes, deaf and mute, their subtle skeletons muddled and decayed, sunken in exile for eternal kalpas. Who knows this? You old demon people and Daoists are not like this; matters ought to be tested against reality. Although remonstrance and criticism are bitter, the wise find them sweet to hear; hence I have stated this briefly. Pray test your thoughts thrice: if you can brush away old traces and reform your designs, you will share the same wind as the Great Transformation! If you truly do not reform, we shall await the illustrious and virtuous, who fully illuminate voices and melodies, to awaken the long night—how could it be fully expressed by today's weak words? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.28) - [Next: 8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.30) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102~en-mt.8.29) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.8.70) — Classical Chinese - [集古今佛道論衡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2104.2.14) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.29) · Pramāṇa