廣弘明集 9.85

9.85

老子消氷經云。老子語尹喜曰。若求學道。先去五情。一父母。二妻子。三情色。四財寶。五官爵。若除者與吾西行。喜精銳。因斷七人首持來。老笑曰。吾試子心。不可為事。所殺非親乃禽獸耳。伏視七頭為七寶。七尸為七禽。喜疑反家。七親皆存。又造立天地記云。老子化胡。胡王不伏。老子打殺。胡王七子國人一分。

The Laozi Melting Ice Scripture says: Laozi told Yin Xi, “If you seek to study the Dao, first eliminate the five emotions: first, father and mother; second, wife and children; third, lust and beauty; fourth, wealth and treasures; fifth, official rank. If you eliminate them, you may go west with me.” Yin Xi, being fierce and sharp, immediately severed the heads of seven people and brought them. Laozi laughed and said: “I was merely testing your heart; this cannot be done. Those you killed were not your relatives, but merely birds and beasts.” Prostrating to look, the seven heads were the seven treasures, and the seven corpses were seven beasts. Yin Xi was suspicious and returned home; all seven relatives were still alive. Furthermore, the Record of the Creation of Heaven and Earth says: “When Laozi converted the barbarians, the barbarian king would not submit; Laozi struck and killed the barbarian king’s seven sons and one portion of his countrymen.”