瑜伽論記 23.40

23.40

If one claims that a sentient being is able to cultivate defilement and purification, this is called superimposition; saying that there is entirely no cultivation is called depreciation. If one cultivates for the sake of revulsion, dispassion, and cessation regarding conditioned formations, this is called the middle way. There is yet another explanation: 'Gautama' is the old transliteration Qutan, which is the Buddha's clan name (gotra). Someone asks, 'For what reason do you cultivate the holy life under the Buddha?' If one receives this question, one answers relying on the middle way, meaning one neither superimposes that there is a real sentient being cultivating defilement and purification, nor depreciates by claiming there is entirely no cultivation.