道宣律師感通錄 1.28

1.28

"Moreover, you have recently been making the great robe double-layered. Yet beneath the upper strip, it is actually three-layered. How can that be right?" He then asked about how it was made, and immediately took the robe to show him: "Beneath this strip it is actually three-layered. The mark of these strips represents the dikes and ridges of rice fields. By cutting pieces of cloth and stitching them from the inside, once the transverse exterior strips are removed, inside the strips represents the furrows of the fields, and the upper strips represent the dikes. Is that not so? Now you cover it entirely with continuous cloth: first, it is not cut and severed; second, it has multiple layers. Since it is not the original rule, it is not without the fault of wearing improper vestments. However, regarding the instruction to reform it, we discuss it solely in terms of advantages and disadvantages."