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肇曰：若無造、無受者，則不應有為善獲福、為惡致殃也。然眾生心識相傳、美惡由起，報應之道連環相襲，其猶聲和響順、形直影端，此自然之理無差毫分，復何假常我而主之哉。

[Seng]zhao says: If there were no maker and no receiver, then doing good should not obtain fortune, nor doing evil bring calamity. However, the mind and consciousness of sentient beings are transmitted in succession, and good and evil arise therefrom. The way of retribution is linked in an unending cycle, just as an echo conforms to a sound and a shadow is upright according to the form. This natural principle does not err by a hair's breadth; what need then to borrow a permanent self to govern it?