四分律行事鈔資持記 2.463

2.463

In explaining the marks, the first section also has two parts: the former cites the marks of the offense. However, what is explained in the Vinaya and treatises includes many kinds of noble dharmas; the text raises the essentials to encompass them generally; from external ordinary beings onward, all the way to the ultimate fruition, the meditative practices cultivated are all called noble dharmas. That is, the fivefold mental pacification, the general and specific contemplation of marks, the four dhyānas, the four formless absorptions, and so forth; these are typically ordinary states, yet all open into the gate of the noble, hence they share the same offense. The thirty-seven factors of awakening, the four directions, and the four fruitions are precisely the noble dharmas. 'If manifesting...' below distinguishes mutual enactment. Above is bodily/verbal fundamental karma, where speech leaving the mouth constitutes an offense without depending on the other person's doubt; here, because it is enacted by the body and the marks of the karma are not apparent, it is determined according to whether the other person doubts or believes. 'In the Daśādhyāya...' below, secondly, cites to resolve doubts. 'Near to the small' means it can be cultivated by the initial stage of external ordinary beings. Amṛta is the supreme among tastes, which can serve as a metaphor for the noble path.