宗鏡錄 66.20

66.20

答。內外雖但稟因緣。因緣有二。一善惡增上業因緣。但感生天。及地獄異熟等。二善惡等流業因緣。生天者。感寶地金華。墮地獄者。感刀林銅柱等。此是因緣業作。非我能為。豈謂受報不同。而計有我也。故經云。無我無造無受者。善惡之業亦不亡。

Answer: 'Although the internal and external both merely depend on causes and conditions, causes and conditions are twofold: First, sovereign karmic causes and conditions of good and evil, which only induce birth in heaven or the vipāka of hell, and so forth. Second, causally concordant karmic causes and conditions of good and evil: those born in heaven induce jeweled ground and golden flowers; those falling into hell induce forests of swords and copper pillars, and so forth. These are created by karmic causes and conditions; they are not what a self can do. How could one grasp at the existence of a self merely because retributions received are different? Therefore, the sūtra says: "There is no self, no maker, and no receiver, / Yet the karma of good and evil is not lost."'