大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 59.68

59.68

Regarding the Commentary's "Fifth, substance, meaning bodily action inflicting harm, terminating life, and descending into completion": however, living beings combine the five aggregates to form nominal living beings, which arise and perish thought-moment by thought-moment, the earlier ceasing and the latter continuing; neither annihilated nor eternal, the life-faculty is nominally established, causing their form and mind to be able to continue. This also perishes in a kṣaṇa: the earlier thought-moment having already perished, the subsequent thought-moment would have arisen; cutting off the present so that it does not continue is called killing living beings and also called terminating life; in contrast to not having been terminated earlier, it is called descending into completion. Therefore, the Commentary next states: "This precisely distinguishes the former four as preparatory upāyas." The remaining two sections can be understood.