大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.19

19.19

有一種人，早晨看經念佛懺悔，晚間縱口業罵詈人，次日依前禮佛懺悔，卒歲窮年，以為日課，此乃愚之甚也。殊不知，梵語懺摩，此云悔過，謂之斷相續心，一斷永不復續，一懺永不復造。此吾佛懺悔之意，學道之士，不可不知也。

There is a sort of person who reads sūtras, recites the Buddha's name, and repents in the morning, yet in the evening gives free rein to verbal karma and curses people, and the next day bows to the Buddha and repents as before; year in and year out, they take this as their daily practice—this is the height of foolishness. They completely fail to understand that the Sanskrit term kṣama means repenting mistakes here, which refers to cutting off the mind of continuation: once cut off, it is never continued again; once repented, it is never committed again. This is our Buddha's meaning of repentance, and students of the Way cannot fail to understand it.