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瑜伽論記 23.75

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23.75

Next, the erroneous view is raised to challenge the correct view, saying: An arhat is non-conforming. Non-conformance is improper, false, and conceptual discrimination; it is not that the arhat is non-conforming in the present life. He explains it himself, saying: Why is this? Because food, material tasks, and so forth are perceptibly evident in the present, it cannot be said that he is non-conforming in the present life. But when the sūtra speaks of 'non-conforming,' it has another esoteric intention. Because of this reason, with respect to the formations that do not conform after their extinction, an arhat who does not comprehend them and clings to them says of himself, 'I say: My births are exhausted, the holy life is established, what was to be done has been done, and there is no subsequent becoming'; because he does not skillfully comprehend future matters and so forth, the sūtras speak of 'non-conforming.'

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