法苑珠林 82.76

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A secular book also says: 'What you do not desire for yourself, do not do to others.' One should know that the inner and outer teachings are fundamentally the same at root. Although their external forms differ between black and white, their establishment of practice is without difference. If one goes against this principle, one becomes identical to the vulgar, so how can one follow either the inner or outer? As a sūtra says: 'The Buddha expounds the Dharma for sentient beings to sever ignorance and delusion, just like a skilled physician dispensing medicine according to the disease.' This is called the inner teaching.