瑜伽師地論略纂 4.47

4.47

Under the ninth, the faults of karma, 'generating an offense in the present lifetime, such as being able to cause self-harm' means: initiating the preparatory application of killing, but before the karma of killing is completed, one is harmed by another in the present, and will not necessarily experience [retribution] in the future because it did not become a grave karma. Furthermore, it is like an ordinary being who previously engaged in killing and the like, is harmed by another in the present, and later attains entry into the noble state, thus not experiencing future retribution. Or, one converts the future fruit into an experience in the present body and does not experience it further later, as with Aṅgulimāla and others; this is also called an offense in the present lifetime. Pointing to its being the same as before, able to cause self-harm, it therefore says 'such as'.