弘明集 1.24

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1.24

The questioner said: "Confucius said, 'Extravagance leads to insubordination, and frugality leads to meanness. Rather than be insubordinate, it is better to be mean.' Shusun said, 'Frugality is the reverence of virtue; luxury is the greatest of evils.' Now Buddhists take exhausting their wealth in giving as honour, and giving away all their goods to others as noble. How could there be blessing in this?"

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弘明集 — 僧祐, Classical Chinese