四分律行事鈔資持記 1.748

1.748

引證中，初證有情。薩下，二證非情。非情境廣，且舉地塵示其多相。即下，復引四物轉證。《善生》五種，前後離明。若復細論，飲食衣服房舍臥具，常住現前四種僧物，行住坐臥俯仰威儀，大小便利，一切作務，無非制法；所謂森然萬境，何事非持；若不爾者，豈名具足；若不先發，行自何生？故知受前，預須委學。沙彌建位，正存於此；今時昧教，誰復知之！

Under "Citing Evidence," the first cites evidence for sentient beings. From "Sarvāstivāda" onward is the second, citing evidence for non-sentient beings. The objects of non-sentient beings are vast; here the specks of earth are briefly cited to demonstrate their manifold marks. From "Namely" onward further cites the four objects to corroborate this. The five kinds in the Sujāta [Sūtra] are explained separately earlier and later. If examined in detail, food, drink, clothing, lodging, bedding, the four kinds of Saṅgha property—permanent and currently present—walking, standing, sitting, lying down, bowing, looking up, and all bodily deportments, defecation, urination, and all daily tasks are nothing that is not a prescribed rule; so it is said: in the dense forest of ten thousand objects, what matter is not a maintenance? If it were not so, how could it be called "complete"? If it is not generated beforehand, whence could practice arise? Therefore one must know that before receiving [the precepts], one must study this thoroughly in advance. The establishment of the novice's rank exists precisely for this; but today people are blind to the teaching, so who understands this anymore?