萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.29

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示眾云。依經解義。三世佛冤。離經一字。返同魔說。因不收。果不入。底人。還受業報也無。

Instructing the assembly, he said: 'To explain the meaning according to the sūtra is an injustice to the buddhas of the three periods; to depart from the sūtra by a single character is tantamount to Mara's preaching.' For a person whom causes do not contain and results do not admit, do they still experience karmic retribution or not?