金剛經纂要刊定記 4.98

4.98

In the sūtra, this also separately resolves a doubt, which should be called the doubt that without abiding there is no merit. In Dayun's twenty-seven doubts, this is taken as the very first, called the doubt about non-abiding having merit. Here, however, it is not adopted as one of the major categories of doubts. Why? Because it is a subsidiary division of doubt within the questions and answers. Therefore the treatise states: 'Because the mind has been subdued, the benefits of giving are subsequently explained.'