[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103) › 7.22 # 廣弘明集 7.22 廣弘明集 7.22 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7.22) 書奏。梁武大怒。集朝士將加顯戮。濟密逃於魏欲匡靜帝。事露為齊文襄燒殺之。年八十餘矣。濟所行非理。妄逞才術。干政冐榮。負智自滅。古云。不在其位不謀其政。濟布衣之人。而謀廟堂之事濫矣。佛行仁化無損王臣。守戒潔心除邪滅惑。此佛教也。故三學八正以導出家。六度四弘用開士俗。其中通局適化隨緣悟達為宗。餘非佛意。而濟不談正行之士。專述亂業之夫。以偽排真以邪陵正。以寡伐眾以僻亂全。禍不謀身。密陳無上之典。餘殃不盡。終被焚身之酬。深可悲矣。 > When the memorial was presented, Emperor Wu of Liang was furious and assembled his courtiers, intending to execute him publicly. Ji secretly fled to Wei, wishing to assist Emperor Jing; when the matter was exposed, he was burned to death by Wenxiang of Qi, at the age of over eighty. What Ji practiced went against principle; he recklessly displayed his talent and artifice, meddling in state affairs to covet glory, and relying on his cleverness, he brought about his own destruction. The ancients said: 'When not in that office, do not plan its policies.' Ji was a commoner in plain clothes, yet he meddled in the affairs of the court, which was an overstepping of bounds. The Buddha practiced benevolent transformation, doing no harm to the ruler and ministers; keeping precepts and purifying the mind, he eliminated evil and extinguished confusion—this is the Buddha's teaching. Therefore, the three trainings and eightfold right path are used to guide those who have left the household, while the six perfections and four great vows are used to enlighten scholar-gentlemen and the common people. Among these, whether broad or narrow, adapting to transform beings according to conditions and taking awakened realization as the core—anything other than this is not the Buddha's intent. Yet Ji did not speak of men of proper practice, but exclusively recounted men of disordered karma, using falsehood to dismiss the true, using evil to overstep the correct, using the few to attack the many, and using the perverted to disrupt the complete. Not planning for his own safety from calamity, he secretly presented \[attacks against\] the unsurpassed teachings; his remaining misfortune was not exhausted, and in the end he met the retribution of being burned alive. This is deeply lamentable! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7.21) - [Next: 7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7.23) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.7.22) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.7.22) · Pramāṇa