廣弘明集 5.15

5.15

Formerly, Pei Yimin composed the two treatises *Exalting Being* and *Valuing Non-being*. Contemporary commentators either thought he did not vacantly attain the superior Way, or that he was correcting the prevailing drift of the times. In my view, to prize non-being is already an error, and to exalt being is likewise not to attain it. As an entity, the Way is indistinct and elusive; responding to circumstances without fixed method, it goes wherever change dictates. Encountering a time of clarity and purity, one holds the tally and folds one's hands in non-action; meeting the transformations of the myriad movements, physical forms vigorously arise. Therefore, although profound insight is the same, the teachings of being and non-being are expounded differently; though the sacred intent is one, the designations and terms have distinct labels. Tang and Yu did not long for knotted cords; Tang and Wu did not emulate abdication. How could they be different? It was because of the seasonal timing. Yet Boyang used holding to the ancient Way to govern present existence, while Yimin wished to hold to present existence to cut off the ancient style. I therefore maintain that those two men did not understand the Way of rounded transformation, and each merely prided himself on his own single perspective.