折疑論 3.76

3.76

Miaoming said, "What you have said may be called seeing what is external without yet seeing what is internal (Rebuking the guest, he says: You can see that external teachings speak of matters of life and death, ghosts and spirits, but you do not see that within your own teaching there are also things said of them. The Doctrine of the Mean says: 'The Master said, "How abundantly do ghosts and spirits manifest their virtuest!"' The Diagram of the Supreme Polarity says: 'Tracing things to their origin and returning to their end, one understands the teachings on life and death.' The commentary says: 'The beginning is life, meaning the origin of life. The end is cessation, meaning that having concluded, it is said to be death.').