續集古今佛道論衡 1.71

1.71

Jiang Bin said, "Confucius was a sage; does he not say that words accord with the intention? Why would he rely on divination?" The Dharma Master said, "Only the Buddha is the Dharma King among sages and the foremost of the four types of birth. Looking from afar upon all sentient beings across both the past and future limits, their good and bad fortune, beginnings and ends, he does not rely on divination, beholding them as if in the palm of his hand. Other sages, though they understand principles of what has not yet occurred, must rely on the yarrow stalks and tortoise shells to divine the spiritual hexagrams." At that time, Emperor Ming dispatched the palace secretariat to proclaim the imperial edict again: "The Daoist master Jiang Bin's arguments lack any central tenet. Furthermore, he says that the Kaitian jing was spoken by Laozi." He questioned Jiang Bin: "Where did this Kaitian jing come from? Who gave it to you?" Jiang Bin replied, "I obtained it from my late master, the Daoist master Zhang Xiang."