宗鏡錄 48.41

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48.41

Answer: Setting them aside by means of the third criterion, the treatise says: 'Third, having increase and decrease. If it has superior function and can increase or decrease, implanting habits (vāsanā), it is an active perfumer.' This excludes the wholesome dharmas perfected in the Buddha-fruit, which neither increase nor decrease; hence they are not active perfumers. If they could perfume, they would not be consummate; and the Buddha-fruit before and after would have superiority and inferiority.

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