注維摩詰經 3.77

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什曰：汝若自知有過如是之深者，乃可取食也。肇曰：犯重罪者不得入賢聖眾數，終不得滅度。若能備如上惡，乃可取食也。何者？夫捨惡從善，人之常情耳。然則是非逕心，猶未免于累。是以等觀者以存善為患，故捨善以求宗；以捨惡為累，故即惡而反本。然則即惡有忘累之功、捨善有無染之勳，故知同善未為得、同惡未為失。淨名言意似在此乎。

[Kumāra]jīva says: Only if you yourself know that you have faults as deep as this, can you take the food. [Seng]zhao says: One who commits grave offenses cannot enter the ranks of the worthy and noble, and ultimately cannot attain extinction [nirvāṇa]. Only if one can possess all the aforesaid evils can one take the food. Why is this? Turning away from evil and following good is simply the ordinary sentiment of men. Yet, when right and wrong pass through the mind, one is still not free from encumbrance. Therefore, those of equal vision consider retaining good to be an affliction, and so abandon good to seek the fundamental principle; they consider abandoning evil to be an encumbrance, and so approach evil to return to the root. Thus approaching evil has the efficacy of forgetting encumbrances, and abandoning good has the merit of non-defilement. Hence we know that being in accord with the good is not yet an attainment, nor is being in accord with evil a loss. The meaning of Pure Name's words seems to lie herein.