法界次第初門 1.225

1.225

First, the precept against killing living beings. What is meant by killing living beings? If one truly knows it to be a living being, generates the intention to kill, deprives it of life, and having set bodily karma in motion an act is accomplished—this is named the offense of killing. If one does not do this, it is named the precept against killing. The rest—such as binding, confining, whipping, and beating—are preliminary expedients of killing, not the primary offense.