摩訶止觀 6.98

6.98

云何知見起因緣？因緣不同，生見亦異。何以得知？內外相故知。內外相者：眾生居處相異，時序寒熱，國土高低，產育精麁，食物濃淡，處所異故，果報相異。雖土風所出，蓄散豐儉，或有或無，或得或失，貧富飢飽云云。形貌相異：矬長端醜，偉瘠健病云云。根性欣惡相異：忽榮棄位，樵漁自樂，扣牛干相，負鼎邀卿，專文專武，耽酒嗜味，多貪多奢，多瞋多喜，多癡多黠；如是參差百千萬品。直置人道，各各殊別，何況異類，不可勝言！如此依正種種不同者，必知業異；業異故起見異。是故則見末知本，見外識內。

How does one know the causes and conditions for the arising of views? Because causes and conditions differ, the views born are also different. How is this known? It is known from internal and external signs. As for internal and external signs: the dwellings of sentient beings differ, the seasons are cold or hot, the lands are high or low, childbearing is delicate or coarse, food is rich or plain; because places differ, the retributions differ. Though according to local customs, hoarding and scattering are lavish or meager, presence or absence, gain or loss, poverty or wealth, hunger or repletion, and so on. Bodily forms differ: short or tall, handsome or ugly, robust or emaciated, healthy or sick, and so on. Faculties and dispositions of liking and loathing differ: scorning glory and abandoning high rank, taking pleasure in woodcutting and fishing; tapping on an ox's horn to seek ministership, carrying a cauldron to court an appointment; specializing in the civil or the military; indulging in alcohol and savoring flavors; having much greed or much extravagance; having much anger or much joy; having much folly or much cunning; thus differing in hundreds of thousands of myriad kinds. Setting aside merely the human realm where each is distinct, how much more so for other species, which cannot be recounted! From such diverse differences in environment and person, one definitely knows that karma differs; because karma differs, the arising of views differs. Therefore, seeing the branches one knows the root, and seeing the external one recognizes the internal.