妙法蓮華經玄義 6.200

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若無戒自制，縱其身口，作四趣業，名地獄人。若捨惡持戒，名見天人。但禁戒嚴峻，遇緣動退，則惡業還興。或四重五逆，焚毀塔寺，此心生時，惡起戒沒，是業熟成，必墮惡道。欲離此心，成就戒、善，此有可發關宜之機，感無垢三昧赴對應之。惡心豁破，地獄因息，得冥顯兩益（云云）。今人雖入道場懺悔，惡心不轉，則惡業不壞。惡業不壞，得繩不斷，罪不得滅也。

If one lacks precepts for self-restraint and gives rein to one's body and speech, committing the karma of the four destinies, one is called a person of hell. If one abandons evil and upholds precepts, one is called a person who sees heaven. Yet if the restrictive precepts are rigorous and one wavers and regresses upon encountering conditions, then evil karma arises again. Or if committing the four grave offenses or the five heinous crimes, burning down and destroying stupas and monasteries, when this mind arises, evil surges and precepts disappear; when this karma ripens and is completed, one must fall into the evil destinies. If one wishes to be free of this mind and accomplish precepts and goodness, here there is a capacity of wholesome roots that can be stimulated when conditions are fitting, stimulating the Stainless Samādhi to respond accordingly. The evil mind is decisively shattered, the cause of hell ceases, and one obtains both hidden and manifest benefits (and so on). If people today enter the sanctuary to repent, yet their evil minds do not turn, then evil karma is not destroyed. If evil karma is not destroyed, the fettering rope is not severed, and sins cannot be eliminated.