弘明集 9.99

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難曰。今論所云皆情言也。而非聖旨。請舉經記以證聖人之教。孝經云。昔者周公郊祀后稷。以配天。宗祀文王於明堂以配上帝。若形神俱滅誰配天乎。復誰配帝乎。

The challenger says: What your treatise says at present are all statements of personal opinion, and are not the sage's intent. Please allow me to cite canonical records to prove the teaching of the sages. The Classic of Filial Piety says: 'Formerly, the Duke of Zhou performed the suburban sacrifice to Houji to correlate with Heaven, and performed the ancestral sacrifice to King Wen in the Hall of Light to correlate with the Lord on High.' If corporeal form and spirit are both extinguished, who correlates with Heaven? Who correlates with the Lord?