四分律行事鈔資持記 3.947

3.947

次門，能勸中，《華手經》，明獲報，初總示勝報。轉身，即當報；現增，即現報。善來者，道成初果，蒙佛親度；金言一召，鬚髮自落，袈裟在身。蓮華化生，不受胞胎故。一下，別列四法。一解脫，二精進，三忍辱，四饒益，一一皆具自行化他；此中正用第一，餘三相因而引。《功德經》中，初正明。二喻顯，有二。為道出家，無漏功德；供聖起塔，皆有為福，故所不及。一日一夜舉少況多。彼經，阿難問佛：若有人放人出家，若自出家，得幾所福？若人毀破他人出家，受何罪報？佛告阿難：若滿百歲中問我，我以無盡智慧，除飲食時；滿百歲中，為汝說此人功德，猶不能盡。若人毀破出家因緣者，是人於三惡道中，常受生盲；若為人時，在母腹中，受胎便盲；汝於百歲常問是義，我於百歲，以無盡智，說是罪報，亦不可盡。

In the second heading, under “Being able to encourage [others],” the Kuśalamūlaparigraha-sūtra clarifies the rewards obtained: first, it generally shows the superior rewards. “Changing one's body” refers to the future reward; “present increase” refers to the reward in the present life. “Come, monk (ehi-bhikṣu)” means that with the achievement of the first fruit of the Path, one receives personal ordination from the Buddha; upon a single call of the golden speech, beard and hair fall out naturally, and the kāṣāya is upon one's body. [One is] apparitionally born from a lotus flower, because one does not undergo gestation in a womb. From “First” onward, it separately lists the four dharmas: first, liberation; second, diligence; third, forbearance; fourth, benefiting others; each of them completely possesses both one's own practice and transforming others. Here, the first one is primarily applied, while the other three are cited by association. In the Merit Sūtra, first, it directly explains [the merit]. Second, it reveals it through analogies, of which there are two. Leaving household life for the sake of the Way is an uncorrupted (anāsrava) merit; making offerings to holy beings and erecting stūpas are both conditioned (saṃskṛta) merits, and hence they cannot equal it. “One day and one night” highlights the small to illustrate the great. In that sūtra, Ānanda asks the Buddha: “If someone permits another to leave household life, or leaves household life himself, how much merit does he attain? If someone ruins or obstructs another's leaving household life, what sinful retribution does he receive?” The Buddha told Ānanda: “Even if you were to question me for a full hundred years, and I, with inexhaustible wisdom, excepting the time for eating and drinking, were to explain this person's merit to you for a full hundred years, it still could not be exhausted. If someone ruins the conditions for leaving household life, that person will always be born blind in the three evil destinies; if born as a human, upon taking conception in the mother's womb, he will become blind; even if you were constantly to ask this meaning for a hundred years, and I, with inexhaustible wisdom, were to explain this sinful retribution for a hundred years, it likewise could not be exhausted.”