四分律行事鈔資持記 2.38

2.38

In the separate explanation of the four passages: first, in the preparatory stage, it provisionally brings up the matter of sexual misconduct to explain the sequence. Saying 'generating the mind' is an offense of the mind, the same as in the present *Dharmaguptaka*, yet without a definitive limit; therefore, one must definitively determine heavy conditions and intention, setting aside fleeting thoughts. The above clarifies mental offenses, which do not yet involve form. Under 'the next preparatory stage', both clarify bodily offenses, returning to mind as their source. Moving the body and speaking with the mouth are identified in terms of their complete marks. Universally calling them duṣkṛtas generally indicates both distant and intermediate [preparatory stages]; their names are the same, but their substances differ. In the proximate preparatory stage, it first shows the mark of the offense. The phrase 'anticipating...' resolves doubts. Touching fundamentally violates a saṃghāvaśeṣa, but here it is designated as a sthūlātyaya; hence this must be resolved and settled. While anticipating intercourse ought to be major, here it is conversely light; playful amusement ought to be light, so how is it conversely major? However, being light, there is a fruit to advance toward; being heavy, it constitutes karma in its own substance—this is why they differ. In 'confessing before a person', that text explains sthūlātyaya offenses without distinguishing the three repentances; in phrasing, it is broad and ambiguous, as fully explained below.