集古今佛道論衡 1.34

1.34

于時帝與道俗二萬人。於重雲殿重閣上。手書此文。發菩提心。至四月十一日。又勅。門下大經中說道有九十六種。惟佛一道是於正道。其餘九十五種名為邪道。朕捨邪外以事正內。諸佛如來。若有公卿能入此誓者。各可發菩提心。老子周公孔子等雖是如來弟子。而化迹既邪。止是世間之善。不能革凡成聖。其公卿百官侯王宗族。宜反偽就真捨邪入正。故經教成實論云。若事外道心重佛法心輕即是邪見。若心一等是無記性。不當善惡若事佛心強老子心弱者。乃是清信。言清信者。清是表裏俱淨。垢穢惑累皆盡。信是信正不信邪。故言清信。佛弟子。其餘諸信皆是邪見。不得稱清信也。門下速施行。

At that time, the Emperor, together with twenty thousand monastics and laypeople, at the double-tiered pavilion of the Chongyun Hall, personally wrote this text and generated the bodhicitta. On the eleventh day of the fourth month, he further issued an imperial order: 'To the Chancellery: The great sūtras explain that there are ninety-six kinds of ways, of which only the single Way of the Buddha is the correct Way; the remaining ninety-five kinds are called heterodox ways. We renounce the heterodox and outer to serve the correct and inner, the Buddhas and Tathāgatas. If there are dukes and ministers who are able to join this vow, each may generate the bodhicitta. Although Laozi, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius, and others were disciples of the Tathāgata, their converting traces were already heterodox; they are merely worldly goodness and cannot transform an ordinary person into a sage. Let the dukes, ministers, hundred officials, princes, and royal kin turn from the spurious toward the true, renouncing the heterodox to enter the correct. Therefore the scriptural teaching of the *Tattvasiddhi-śāstra* states: "If one’s heart in serving external ways is heavy and one’s heart toward the Buddha-Dharma is light, this is wrong view. If one’s heart toward both is equal, it is indeterminate nature, belonging neither to good nor evil. If one’s heart in serving the Buddha is strong and one’s heart toward Laozi is weak, then one is a pure believer." As for "pure believer" (upāsaka): "pure" means pure both inside and out, with defilements, afflictions, and bondages completely ended; "believer" means believing in the correct and not believing in the heterodox. Hence one is called a "pure believer," a disciple of the Buddha. All other kinds of belief are wrong views, and cannot be called "pure belief." Let the Chancellery swiftly execute this.'