四明尊者教行錄 4.97

4.97

答：小乘入見道位斷見惑，即障理惑也。初證人空，得無我相，乃不發業，離四惡趣異熟生障也。其第二果欲界五趣雜居，九品界繫潤生惑，即於人天七反受生。其不來果色無色界繫，八九七十二品潤生惑，在二界定業受生。既有惑潤受生，何疑其生五淨居耶？唯至四果永斷界繫，方不受生矣。

Answer: When the Hinayana enters the path of seeing, it severs the afflictions of view, which are afflictions that obstruct the truth. First realizing the emptiness of persons and attaining the mark of no-self, one does not produce karma and is freed from the karmic maturation obstacles of rebirth in the four evil destinies. As for the second fruition, the nine grades of realm-binding moistening afflictions in the five destinies of cohabitation in the desire realm lead to rebirth seven times among humans and devas. As for the non-returning fruition, the eight-times-nine, or seventy-two, grades of moistening afflictions bound to the form and formless realms lead to rebirth according to determined karma in the two realms. Since there are afflictions that moisten rebirth, why doubt their birth into the Five Pure Abodes? It is only upon reaching the fourth fruition, permanently severing realm-bindings, that one is no longer reborn.