辯正論 6.104

6.104

外論曰。夫聖人應世本以濟益蒼生。仰觀俯察利安群品。是以味草木合五穀之精。植桑柘充八蠶之纊。故垂衣裳存稼穡。立社正置司衣。以利百姓。於是乎在。若一女不織。天下為之苦寒。一男不耕。天下為之少食。今釋迦垂法不織不耕。經無絕粒之法。田空耕稼之夫。教闕轉練之方。業廢機維之婦。是知持盂振錫糊口誰憑。左衽偏衣於何取託。故當一歲之中飢寒總至。未聞利益且見困窮。世不能知。其迷四也。

The External Treatise states: When sages respond to the world, it is fundamentally to benefit and assist the common people, looking up to observe and looking down to inspect, so as to benefit and pacify all beings. For this reason, they tasted herbs and plants, combining the essences of the five grains; they planted mulberry and wild mulberry, supplying the silk floss of the eight silkworms. Thus they let fall their robes and preserved plowing and harvesting; they established the Altars of the Soil and appointed ministers of clothing, so as to benefit the hundred surnames. It all resides in this! If one woman does not weave, the world suffers cold for it; if one man does not plow, the world suffers shortage of food for it. Now Śākya handed down regulations not to weave and not to plow; the scriptures have no method for abstaining from grain, yet the fields are empty of men who plow and sow; the teachings lack methods of reeling and bleaching silk, yet women abandon the work of the loom. Hence we know: holding the bowl and shaking the staff, on whom do they rely to feed themselves? Fastening robes on the left and wearing garments that bare one shoulder, where do they find sustenance? Thus within a single year, hunger and cold arrive all at once; never have we heard of benefit, but only see distress and poverty. The world cannot know this. This is their fourth delusion.