[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [辯正論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110) › 6.63 # 辯正論 6.63 辯正論 6.63 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.63) 內喻曰。案道德序云。老子修道。自隱以無名為務。周衰出關。二篇之教乃作。然周書典謨無老氏所製。案二教論等云。五千文者容成所說。老為尹談。蓋述而不作也。又職唯藏史位非阿衡。隆周之師將非烏有（前折邪後歎正）釋迦降神羅衛託質王宮。智實生知道唯遍覺。演惠明於百億。敷法雲於大千。靈澤周於十方。神化覃於四表。崇崖峻壁之典。龍居象負之文。蓋盈溢於茲矣。雖弘羊潛計之術。莫能紀其纖芥。鄒衍談天之論。無以議其涓𤁷。豈夫章詮八十文列五千而已哉。恨子未窺牆仞。致有武叔之毀。亦復何傷日月。故多念其不知耳。爾道之劣四也。 > The Buddhist response says: According to the preface to the Daode\[jing\], Laozi cultivated the Dao and kept himself hidden, making namelessness his concern; when the Zhou declined, he went out through the Pass, whereupon the two-chapter teaching was produced. However, the Zhou documents, the canons and counsels, contain nothing composed by Master Lao. According to the Erjiao lun and other texts, the five-thousand-character text was expounded by Rongcheng, and Laozi merely spoke it for \[Yin\] Xi—transmitting rather than originating. Furthermore, his official post was only an archivist, and his station was not that of a premier. Was the grand master of the prosperous Zhou not perhaps entirely fictitious? (First refuting the heterodox, then praising the correct.) Śākya descended his spirit at Kapilavastu and lodged his form in the royal palace. His wisdom was indeed born from innate knowing; his Dao was universal awakening. He radiated the light of wisdom across hundreds of millions of worlds, and spread the cloud of the Dharma throughout the great chiliocosm. His spiritual grace encompassed the ten directions, and his divine transformation extended to the four quarters. Canons loftier than precipitous cliffs and soaring peaks, scriptures housed in dragon palaces and borne on elephants' backs, are overflowing here! Even with the secret reckoning methods of Sang Hongyang, one could not count their finest dust; even with the discources on heaven by Zou Yan, one could not evaluate their trickles and drops. How could it be merely eighty-one chapters or a text set forth in five thousand characters? I regret that you have not peered over the high wall, leading you to utter the slander of Shusun Wushu. Yet how could this harm the sun and the moon? One can only lament your ignorance. This is the fourth inferiority of your Dao. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.62) - [Next: 6.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.64) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110~en-mt.6.63) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.95) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.63) · Pramāṇa