廣弘明集 13.132

13.132

外論曰。夫聖人應世本以濟益蒼生。仰觀俯察利安群品。是以味草木合五穀之精。植桑柘充八蠶之纊。故垂衣裳存稼穡。立稷正置司衣以利百姓。於是乎在。若一女不織。天下為之苦寒。一男不耕。天下為之少食。今釋迦垂法不織不耕。經無絕粒之法。田空耕稼之夫。教闕轉練之方。業廢機絍之婦。是知持盂振錫糊口誰憑。左衽偏衣於何取託。故當一歲之中。飢寒總至未聞利益。已見困窮世不能知。其迷四也。

The external treatise says: Sages respond to the world fundamentally to benefit and assist the common folk, observing above and examining below to benefit and pacify the myriad kinds. Therefore they tasted herbs and trees to blend the essence of the five grains; they planted mulberries and cudrania to provide the floss of the eight silkworms. Hence they hung garments and preserved agriculture, established the Director of Agriculture, and appointed the Minister of Clothing to benefit the common people; it was precisely in this. If one woman does not weave, the realm suffers cold on her account; if one man does not plow, the realm lacks food on his account. Now Śākya handed down a teaching that does not weave and does not plow: his scriptures have no method for abstaining from grain, yet the fields are stripped of plowing and farming men; his doctrine lacks the technique of boiling and bleaching, yet the work has cast aside weaving and spinning women. Thus we know: holding the bowl and shaking the staff, on what can they rely to eke out a living? Exposing the right and draping the left, on what can they depend? Therefore, within a single year, hunger and cold both arrive; we have not heard of any benefit, but have already witnessed distress and poverty. The world cannot understand this. This is their fourth delusion.