梵網經菩薩戒本疏 4.71

4.71

Sixth, severity has four aspects: 1. regarding the object; 2. regarding mental disposition; 3. combined evaluation; 4. regarding affliction. First, regarding the object, there are four: 1. the placenta of livestock, which is meat without life; 2. meat of an animal that died of itself; 3. threefold pure meat; 4. [meat from an animal] known to have had its life taken, and the like. In terms of the precept, all are offenses; their karmic path is sequential, each earlier being light and later being grave. Second, regarding mental disposition, there are also three: 1. using it as medicine in severe illness; 2. preserving life during famine; 3. habitually eating it out of negligence. These also all violate the precept; the karmic path should be understood accordingly. Third, combined evaluation means matching the latter to the former sequentially, and the interwoven severity should be understood accordingly. Fourth, regarding affliction, the three poisons should be understood accordingly.