弘明集 7.14

7.14

The treatise says: "The teaching of non-arising is lax; the transformation of non-dying is pressing. The pressing teaching can advance the humble and weak; the lax teaching can restrain the boastful and strong." The objection says: Non-arising is just non-dying, and non-dying is just non-arising. When their names are opposite but their reality is identical, how can there be a distinction between lax and pressing? If because their traces have gradations, their superiority and inferiority are far apart, then one ought to use the pressing to curb the strong and the lax to guide the weak. Thus Confucius said: 'Qiu holds back, therefore I urged him forward; You has energy for two men, therefore I held him back.' Is not the method of conveying instruction just like this?