廣弘明集 6.44

6.44

A native of Bohai. His talent and arts could not sustain him. The Qi did not employ him in office. He wrote the *Account of High Talent Meeting No Opportunity* to liken unto himself. He submitted a memorial stating: 'The Buddhist Dharma is deceitful, serving as a forest thicket for those evading corvée. Furthermore, it is licentious and wanton. There are nuns and upāsikās who are actually the wives and concubines of monks. The situation of aborting fetuses and killing children is difficult to speak of. Now there are about two million monks and nuns, and together with secular women there are nearly over four million. Aborting a fetus once every six months, in this way, there would be two million households eliminated in a year! Verifying this, the Buddha is a ghost that blights fetuses; he is entirely not a sage.' He also stated: 'Daoist priests do not follow the original intent of Laozi and Zhuangzi, but merely rely on the heterodox theories of Buddhism to accompany them.' Examining these words of Zhou, they greatly defile hearing and sight. Exclusively speaking of aborting fetuses and killing children, how can these be the words of an upright scholar? Confucius, seeing a single good deed in a person, forgot their hundred faults; Bao Shuya, seeing a single evil deed in a person, did not forget it for the rest of his life. The traces of breadth and narrowness can clearly be known; the minds of the madman and the wise man are far apart! Moreover, the lofty and noble śramaṇas under Heaven exceed one million; they pay no heed to wealth and sensual desire, and pursue neither fame nor position. Concealing this virtue, he recklessly trumpeted licentiousness and murder. Slaying two children in a single year—even if monks were like this, which registered household has two boys in one year? Uttering such reckless words is not worth expanding upon. Yet [Fu] Yi took it again as an upright remonstrance, and when later submitting memorials he also presented this summary. When investigated, he is simply Liu Zhou's disciple!