廣弘明集 6.30

6.30

The answer said: 'The pearl star fell by night, and the Buddha was born during the Zhou era. The white horse arrived in the morning, and the Dharma flourished in the Han era. Therefore Tang Yao and Yu Shun could not know of it in detail, nor could Confucius and the Duke of Zhou expound it. Thus the Dharma King is self-mastered, with inexhaustible transformations: containing Sumeru within a mustard seed, shading the sun and moon beneath a lotus flower; a cloud of Dharma and rain of benevolence, a bright pearl and a jewelled vessel, bringing the children out of the burning house and rescuing living beings from the sea of suffering.

'When an arrow-stone finds a whetstone, it cuts bone and severs sinew; when a carriage receives grease, the horses are agile and the wheels are swift. One must indeed turn one's mind with devotion and take refuge with pure intention. One should believe the words of Fu Yi and not follow the precedent of Cai Mo.'

[Wei Zheng] was an important minister of the state; he may be said to have possessed lofty discernment and a true haven. Therefore Emperor Taizong revered him, composed an inscription, personally wrote the stele, and buried him in an attendant tomb at Zhaoling to be a model for ten thousand generations. Cai Mo's years and deeds were both exhausted, his usefulness rarely displayed; had he examined his own inability and firmly declined public office, that would have been acceptable. Yet in discussing the separation of Chinese and barbarian, he cannot be called a person of universal understanding, and he is hardly worthy of praise.