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《智論》云：出家多修智慧，智慧是解脫因緣；俗人多修福德，福德是樂因緣（故知為樂，則非出家本意）。《僧祇》云：供養舍利，造塔寺，非我等事；彼國王居士，樂福之人，自當供養；比丘事者，所謂結集三藏，勿令佛法速滅。即初受戒約告云：當勸化作福、治塔、供養眾僧（此是福分）；應學問誦經、勤求聖果（此是道分）。始終兩修，二途意別。

The *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* says: Those who leave household life mostly cultivate wisdom, and wisdom is the cause and condition for liberation; laypeople mostly cultivate merit, and merit is the cause and condition for happiness (thus we know that acting for happiness is not the original intention of leaving household life). The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya says: Making offerings to relics and building stupas and monasteries are not our concern; the kings and householders of that country, those who delight in merit, should themselves make offerings; the concern of bhikṣus is the compilation of the Tripiṭaka, so that the Buddha's Dharma will not quickly perish. Thus at the initial precept conferral, the injunction says: 'One should exhort and transform others to create merit, repair stupas, and make offerings to the saṃgha' (this is the share of merit); 'one should study, recite sūtras, and diligently seek the noble fruits' (this is the share of the Way). Cultivating both from beginning to end, the intentions of the two paths are distinct.