瑜伽論記 14.44

14.44

Question: How can active volition be the essence of the precept concurrent with concentration? Someone says: Established upon its seeds, it should be established upon the seeds of volition in the preceding path of preliminary practice, just as the volition generating the prātimokṣa precept takes the volition of the preceding preliminary practice to determine the karma. This does not constitute an explanation: since the preliminary practices prior to concentration and the path are neither the precepts of concentration nor of the path, but are scattered minds or bound to other stages and realms, how could the essence of the precept be determined according to the preliminary practice?