弘明集 10.17

10.17

Xiu bows with folded hands. Prostrating, I have read the imperial edict replying to his ministers regarding the Treatise on the Extinction of the Spirit. The sagely illumination is profound and deep, and its dynamic mirror is keenly pertinent. Extensively citing external classics, it promotes this internal teaching, enlightening the benighted, releasing the obstructed, and instructing the unenlightened. It will cause the four seas to look up with reverence and the ten directions to praise and clap their hands; deviant views will close their mouths, and the monastics and laity will rejoice alike. I have reverently recited it, and whether waking or sleeping, I have written it upon my sash. That you have favored me with its presentation, I deeply receive your mindful regard. Fan Xiu bows with folded hands.