無量壽經連義述文贊 3.129

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經曰「佛言其一惡者」至「積德所致」者，述云：第二、釋。有五：此初、釋殺生。有二：初、釋所捨離；後、釋所持得。初又有三：初、牒釋；次、總結；後、寄喻顯過。初又有三：此初、釋惡也。剋者殺也，賊者害也。有說神明者，即同生同名。同生在右肩，記所作惡，同名在左肩，記所作善，故云記識。此恐非也。業報感起，非神所堪故。今即還同精神剋識，以種子識功能不亡名記識故。孤者無父母，獨者無子女。尫（烏皇反），羸也弱也。俗文短小目尫。狂（其亡反），變性意也，又亂也。

On the sūtra's words from "The Buddha said: The first evil is" to "brought about by accumulating virtue": the commentary states: Second, the explanation. There are five parts: this first explains killing living beings. There are two parts: first, explaining what is abandoned and left behind; afterwards, explaining what is upheld and attained. The first also has three parts: first, explaining segment by segment; next, a general conclusion; afterwards, employing a metaphor to show the fault. The first also has three: this first explains the evil. *Ke* (剋) means to kill; *zei* (賊) means to harm. Some say that "spirits" refers to the "born-together" and "same-name" spirits: the "born-together" spirit is on the right shoulder recording the evil committed, and the "same-name" spirit is on the left shoulder recording the good committed, and hence it says "recording and knowing." I fear this is not correct. The arising of karmic retribution through evocation is not something spirits can manage. Here it is rather identical with the mental consciousness that accurately records, because the potency of the seed-consciousness is not lost, which is called "recording and knowing." An "orphan" (*gu*) has no father or mother; "solitary" (*du*) means having no sons or daughters. *Wang* (尫, *wu huang fan*) means emaciated and weak. In secular literature, someone short and small is called *wang*. *Kuang* (狂, *qi wang fan*) means altered disposition and intention, or deranged.