法苑珠林 62.60

62.60

夫大教無私。至德同感。凡情緣隔。造化殊形。心境相乘。苦樂報異。如蠟印印泥。印成文現。其相可占。致使在人畜以別響。處胡漢以分容。貴賤有晦明之別。聖凡有清濁之異也。

Now the Great Teaching is impartial, and utmost virtue evokes uniform resonance; yet ordinary inclinations are alienated by external conditions, and creation shapes disparate forms. Mind and realm act upon one another; karmic retributions of suffering and pleasure differ. Like wax pressed into clay, once the seal is made, the impression appears; its signs can be divined. Thus human and animal are distinguished in their cries; barbarian and Chinese are differentiated in countenance; the noble and base have the distinction of darkness and light; the sage and ordinary have the difference of purity and turbidity.