Some people integrate Chan practice with the study of Confucian classics – a wise and skillful approach indeed, particularly efficacious in guiding the shallow ones, helping them refrain from using Confucianism to slander Buddhism.
Teaching through the sutras, the Buddha often speaks in depth while sometimes in brief, just so to cater to all calibers. Both deep and brief teachings are Perfect Truth. However, if ordinary people take the words too literally, even though they might come up with some profound and subtle commentaries, it’s all just meaningless wordplay. This is something beginners should know.
by Grand Master Lian Chi (蓮池大師), the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism
儒釋和會 – 錄自明末蓮池大師《竹窗隨筆》(初筆)
有聰明人，以禪宗與儒典和會，此不惟慧解圓融，亦引進諸淺識者，不復以儒謗釋，其意固甚美矣。雖然，據麤言細語，皆第一義，則誠然誠然; 若按文析理，窮深極微，則翻成戲論，已入門者又不可不知也。
Buddha Mind 