四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.447

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Fifth: next, explaining the text. The grades of the five stages are as listed before. Because an offense does not arise in isolation, it relies on an object involving the mind to accomplish the karma. But because objects have superior, inferior, right, and wrong, and the mind has strong, weak, and mistaken states. Either mind and object correspond, and the offense is equal in one grade; yet karma has grave and light, and the eight grades are not uniform. Or the mind does not hit the object (human, thinking or doubting it is a non-human; improper time, doubting proper or improper time); or the object does not match the mind (non-human, thinking it is human; unowned, thinking it is owned). The object is violated while the mind does not violate (earth, thinking it is not earth); the mind violates while the object is not violated (non-earth, thinking it is earth). Because there are these gradations, object ideation is clearly required.