廣弘明集 10.18

10.18

[Dao]lin presented a memorial, saying: "Prostrating, I receive the sage's intent: your principles are broad and words profound, fusing the sacred with the profane, shifting exclusivity and dissolving attachments. You cause truth to be mounted at every turn, all sentient beings to share in the Way, self and others to be completely content, and the thousand paths to become unified. Beautiful as it is, this foolish minister still harbors doubt. If the supreme Way were solely one, there would be no duality to fuse. If principles are permanently external and internal, they naturally allow of enduring distinction. If they are one yet not one, then it is half-right and half-wrong; if they are two yet not two, then it is now sacred and now profane. In this case, the black-robed and white-robed become confounded, Confucianism and Buddhism lose their order, the external and internal become mixed, and high and low are brought into parity. This not only causes the pure transformation to sink afar, but also immediately deludes the folkways of the people. Therefore, yin and yang share the same qi, yet generating and killing remain forever distinct; heaven and earth share in form, yet high and low remain ever different. One cannot, because they both possess form, make earth move and heaven stand still; or, seeing that they share qi, make yin give life and yang deal death. In practical affairs such a principle never exists; empty words can hardly be put to use. Thus, form being equal and qi being one may allow one to speak of identity, yet generating and killing, high and low, have no sense in which they are not distinct. Hence they are identical yet not identical, one yet not one. The principles of sacred and profane have parity without commingling; asaṃskṛta naturally has its own distinction. Moreover, though the title of 'king' is one, ordinary and holy are far apart as heaven and earth; though their appearances and matters are slightly similar, their breadth and narrowness are completely different. For this reason, Confucianism and Buddhism arose together from the beginningless, and the sacred and profane transform along with heaven and earth. If you wish to obliterate them into one, it is proper to use the sacred to discard the profane. If both are beneficial to the world, then the two principles—the hidden and the manifest—shine with equal brilliance. Now to promote one and abolish the other is truly unacceptable."