梵網經古迹記 2.8

2.8

Third, as for committing [offenses] and losing [the precepts]: the bodhisattva precepts have no complete violation, just as there is partial reception and partial upholding. It is not like the śrāvakas, who upon committing a single major offense break all of them and lose the status of a bhikṣu. As the Benye jing says: 'The essence of the ordinary and noble precepts of all bodhisattvas is the mind; therefore, when the mind is exhausted the precepts are also exhausted, and because the mind is inexhaustible the precepts are also inexhaustible.' 'Mind' refers to the intended resolve. If one does not give up the inexhaustible vow of the precepts, one cannot completely violate the boundless precepts. Therefore, upon rebirth the precepts also constantly follow along, continuously increasing moment by moment until one achieves Buddhahood, just as river water flows day and night without stopping, continuously coursing along until it naturally reaches the great ocean—except if one intentionally abandons the great bodhicitta, because when that mind is exhausted the precepts are also exhausted. However, committing a major precept has roughly two kinds: first, breaking; second, defiling. If committed with the entanglement of afflictions of the upper grade, according to the branch violated one loses the precept's moral restraint. If of middle or lower entanglement, it is merely defiled and not lost. As the Yogācārabhūmi says: 'If bodhisattvas transgress the four pārājika dharmas, repeatedly manifesting them with no shame or remorse at all, finding deep delight and seeing them as virtues, you should know this is called committing with upper-grade entanglement. It is not that bodhisattvas, temporarily manifesting a pārājika dharma once, immediately abandon the bodhisattva's pure moral restraint'—unlike the śrāvakas, who abandon them upon a single commission. Furthermore, although one loses the pure precepts through an upper-entanglement offense, the sūtra states that by immediately repenting one can receive them again, unlike the śrāvakas who are like one who has been beheaded and can no longer re-enter the monastic assembly in the present life. Extensively citing doctrines and reasonings is as explained in the Essentials of the Teaching.