量處輕重儀 1.7

1.7

I once asked for the resolution of this essential matter, to directly decide what was right without doubt. He then told me: "Lecturing is a broad and comprehensive understanding; how could it be restricted to a single view to effect salvation? It is like a plan for one's own person and a strategy for the state—truly the two cannot both be fulfilled." Moreover, because receiving the precepts extends across the various Vinayas while depending on particular forms with their partial deficiencies, if one restricts oneself to a single text, the diverse explanations will not flow. I then beat my breast and sighed in solitude: learning is fundamentally meant to restrain oneself and encompass others; now, if one becomes obscured in resolving blockages over a minor matter, how can one be called widely knowledgeable or capable of broadly saving worldly people through responsive teachings? Yet the various Vinayas, in treating observance and transgression, mutually assert what is right and wrong; and regarding the light and heavy categories of property, there are many that rely on appraisal.