注維摩詰經 1.280

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[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?

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注維摩詰經 — Classical Chinese