天台菩薩戒疏 2.40

2.40

Thirty-second: the precept against keeping and making illicit [instruments of] destruction. For a bodhisattva to keep and make things, it must accord with the rules and deportment, possessing benevolence within and doing no harm without. Now, by contrast, to keep and make illicit items, selling them to others, increases faults for both oneself and others; therefore, an offense was instituted. It specifically comprises four conditions: 1. being an illicit item; 2. relying on power; 3. a malicious mind; and 4. intentionally keeping and selling [it]—whereupon one commits an offense. The text has two parts: first, indicating the name and listing the unbefitting matters; next, from "if intentionally" onward, determining the offense for violating the prohibition. The first has six: 1. selling weapons of killing; 2. keeping light scales and small bushels; 3. taking property by relying on influence; 4. binding humans and animals with harmful intent; 5. destroying what has been successfully accomplished; and 6. rearing cats and dogs. These six matters all can cause harm, so keeping and using them was prohibited. When wealth and goods are acquired into one's hands, it falls under the previous precept against stealing. Here, since it derives from unbefitting behavior, a minor defilement is determined. The determination of the offense is as in the text.