[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) › [三教平心論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117) › 2.5 # 三教平心論 2.5 三教平心論 2.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.5) 及于頔之相也。愈之上書以媚之。考之唐史。頔則屈強犯命有擅取鄧州之逆。廣募戰士。有專據漢南之心。教舞八佾。聲態雄侈。有窺覦僭竊之意。天子謂其深懷奸謀。王彥威謂其得全腰領為幸。則頔乃少誠元濟之流亞也。愈乃誦詠讚美。稱其有聖賢之言行。稱其有德。而且有言。擬之以商書之灝灝。周書之噩噩。則愈之諛佞不亦甚乎。昔宇文士及譽太宗。而太宗斥其佞。山人范知璿譽宋璟。而宋璟責其諛。以太宗之聰明英武宋璟之剛正方大。二子譽之。良不為過。而猶不能免佞諛之誚。況子頔之陰蓄異志近助朝廷。而愈乃極口譽之。則愈之佞且諛也如此。巧言令色孔子恥之。讒諂則諛孟子戒之。則愈之操履又可知矣。 > When Yu Di became prime minister, Han Yu submitted a letter to flatter him. Examining the Tang history, Di was stubborn and defied orders, committing the rebellion of seizing Dengzhou without authorization; he broadly recruited warriors with the ambition of dominating Hannan for himself; he trained dancers in the eight rows of eight, his pomp and display grand and extravagant, harboring designs of usurpation. The Son of Heaven regarded him as deeply harboring treacherous plots, and Wang Yanwei considered it fortunate that his neck was spared. Thus Di was of the same ilk as Shao Cheng and Yuanji. Yet Yu chanted his praises, claiming that he had the words and deeds of sages and worthies, claiming that he possessed virtue and eloquence, and comparing him to the vastness of the \*Books of Shang\* and the solemnity of the \*Books of Zhou\*. Was not Yu's sycophancy extreme? In the past, Yuwen Shiji praised Taizong, and Taizong rebuked his flattery; the hermit Fan Zhixuan praised Song Jing, and Song Jing reprimanded his adulation. With Taizong's intelligence and martial prowess and Song Jing's unyielding uprightness, for those two men to praise them was truly not excessive, yet they could still not escape the reproach of sycophancy. How much worse with Yu Di, who secretly harbored treacherous ambitions right under the court's nose, yet Yu praised him to the utmost! Such was Yu's fawning and flattery. Clever words and a plausible appearance were shamed by Confucius; slander, obsequiousness, and adulation were warned against by Mencius. Thus Yu's conduct can once again be known. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.4) - [Next: 2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.6) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117~en-mt.2.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.5) · Pramāṇa