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故《梵網》云：「戒名大乘，名第一義光，非青黃赤白。戒名為孝，孝名為順；孝即止善，順即行善。如此戒者，本師所誦，我亦如是誦。」當知中道妙觀，戒之正體。上品清淨，究竟持戒。《十住》廣說云：「若無我我所，遠離諸戲論，一切無所有，是名上尸羅。」故《淨名》云：「罪性不在內，亦不在外，亦不在兩中間。如其心然，罪垢亦然。其能如是，是名善解，是名奉律。」即此意也。

Therefore the Brahmajāla[-sūtra] says: "The precepts are called the Mahāyāna, called the light of the supreme truth, not blue, yellow, red, or white. The precepts are called filial obedience; filial obedience is called accord. Filial obedience is the good of stopping [evil]; accord is the good of performing [good]. Such precepts were recited by my original teacher, and I also recite them thus." One should know that the wondrous contemplation of the middle way is the correct essence of the precepts. It is highest-grade purity, the ultimate upholding of the precepts. The Ten Stages extensively explains: "If there is no self and nothing belonging to a self, far removed from all conceptual proliferations, and all is nonexistent, this is called supreme śīla." Therefore the Vimalakīrti[-nirdeśa] says: "The nature of sin is neither internal, nor external, nor in between the two. As it is with the mind, so it is with the defilement of sin. One who is able to understand thus is called well-liberated, called observing the Vinaya." This is precisely the meaning.