折疑論 4.25

4.25

'This is like shouldering a spade to level Mount Taihang, or holding a stone to dam a great flood—in terms of effort, is it not toilsome?' (A great flood means the ocean. The guest slandering the Buddha is like someone shouldering a spade and pickaxe wishing to level Mount Taihang, or holding a boulder wanting to dam and fill the ocean; for such an expenditure of effort, is it not laborious and difficult?)