弘明集 6.25

6.25

The treatise says: Below, they abandon wife and children; above, they discard the ancestral sacrifices. Objects of desires and cravings are all indulged through ritual, yet the canons of filial piety and respect are solely curtailed by the [Buddhist] law. They contravene virtue and violate natural order, without ever realizing it. It also says: Preserving one's bodily form and maintaining the ancestral sacrifices is the teaching of continuing the good; marring one's appearance and abandoning one's family name is the discipline of severing evil. What is to be valued in principle is the Dao; what is contemptible in affairs is worldly custom.