菩薩瓔珞本業經 1.94

1.94

「佛子！前三賢伏三界無明，而用麁業。何以故？當受生時，善為緣子、愛為潤業，故受未來果，故名息用而不斷愛用。又十一人亦伏法界中三界業果故。初地乃至七地，三界業果俱伏盡無餘，八地乃盡故。從此以上示現作佛，王宮受生、出家得道、轉法輪、滅度，亦現一切佛界，故無子愛三界之報。唯有無明習在，以大願力故變化生。是以我昔天中說生不生義，業生變生。佛子！聖位中二種業：一慧業。無相無生智，心心緣法性而生無照，是名慧業。二功德業。實智出有諦中，有為無漏集百萬阿僧祇功德，故名為功德業。從初聖以上而現受生，以變易故畢故不造新，以願力故住壽百劫千劫變化生一切。」

"O Son of the Buddha! The former three worthy ranks subdue the avidyā of the three realms, yet they employ coarse karma. Why is this? When they are to receive birth, good [karma] acts as the condition and seed, while craving acts as the moisture for karma; thus they receive future retributions. Therefore it is said that their function is stilled, yet the function of craving is not severed. Furthermore, the eleven [stages of noble] persons also subdue the karmic fruits of the three realms within the dharmadhātu. From the first ground to the seventh ground, the karmic fruits of the three realms are all subdued completely without remainder; only on the eighth ground are they exhausted. From here upward, they manifest attaining buddhahood: taking birth in a royal palace, leaving home and realizing the Way, turning the wheel of the Dharma, and passing into extinction; they also manifest all Buddha-realms, so they have no retributions of the three realms [driven by] seed-craving. Only the habitual propensities of avidyā remain, and through the power of great vows they take birth through transformation. Thus in the past, among the devas, I taught the meaning of arising and non-arising, of birth through karma and birth through transformation. O Son of the Buddha! Within the noble stages there are two kinds of karma: first, karma of wisdom. With the wisdom of signlessness and non-arising, thought after thought conditions the dharma-nature, giving rise to illuminating non-illumination—this is called the karma of wisdom. Second, karma of merit. Real wisdom emerges into the truth of existence, where conditioned and undefiled [dharmas] accumulate one million asaṃkhyeyas of merits—this is called the karma of merit. From the first noble stage upward, they manifest receiving birth; because of mutation, having completed the old, they do not produce the new; through the power of vows, they remain alive for hundreds of kalpas or thousands of kalpas, transforming and giving birth to all."