大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 59.60

59.60

疏「若爾」下，展轉通難，釋成前義。先難、後答。初難亦是《百論》中意。「外曰：已說善行，不應復說惡止。內曰：止相息、行相作，二相違故。是故說善行不攝惡止。外曰：是事實爾。我不言惡止善行是一相，但應惡止則是善行，故言善行。不應復說惡止。」釋曰：此正同今經，殺即是惡，離殺名善，故律義中亦離殺等，攝善戒中亦不殺等，故二難分。疏「古釋」下，答。先敘昔解；其第二解，亦是《百論》中意。前所引布施是止慳法，答中後決云「復次諸漏盡人，慳貪已盡，布施之時復止何惡？或有人雖行布施，慳心不止；縱復能止，然以善行為本，是故布施是善行。」釋曰：此論意明布施雖有止惡，以善行為宗；律儀雖有作持，以止惡為宗。斯就正助，分成二聚。

Regarding the commentary's phrase "If so": below, it resolves objections sequentially to establish the preceding meaning. First the objection, then the response. The initial objection also derives from the intention in the Śataśāstra: / "The outsider said: Since you have already spoken of practicing wholesomeness, you should not further speak of stopping evil. / The insider said: The characteristic of stopping is cessation, while the characteristic of practice is doing; the two are contradictory. Therefore, speaking of wholesome practice does not subsume stopping evil. / The outsider said: That is indeed so. I do not say that stopping evil and practicing wholesomeness share a single characteristic, but merely that stopping evil is itself wholesome practice, and thus it is wholesome practice. One should not further speak of stopping evil." / Explanation: This is precisely identical to the present sūtra: killing is evil, and abstaining from killing is wholesome; therefore, within the moral code there is also abstaining from killing, and within the precepts that gather wholesome dharmas there is also non-killing, making the two difficult to distinguish. Regarding the commentary's phrase "Ancient explanations": below is the response. It first relates former explanations; the second explanation also derives from the intention in the Śataśāstra. Where it was previously cited that giving is the dharma of stopping stinginess, the concluding resolution in the answer states: / "Furthermore, for people whose taints are exhausted, whose stinginess and greed are already gone, what evil is stopped when they give? Or there are people who, although practicing giving, do not stop their stingy minds; even if they can stop it, nevertheless taking wholesome practice as the fundamental basis, giving is a wholesome practice." / Explanation: The intention of this treatise clarifies that although giving involves stopping evil, it takes wholesome practice as its primary focus; although the moral code involves active adherence, it takes stopping evil as its primary focus. Thus, in terms of primary and auxiliary functions, they are divided into two clusters.