廣弘明集 10.27

10.27

[Dao]lin presented a memorial, saying: "Regulating faults and preventing wrongs originally served to generate goodness. Precepts are the goodness of cessation, with body and speech offering no violation. Ceasing amidst conditions, both preventive and intrinsic [transgressions] are severed; only then is it called the goodness of precepts. Now a person tolerant of alcohol does not derange the spirit, yet before the drinking precept is broken, in real truth it is not a sin. But because drinking gives rise to guilt, alcohol externally violates the preventive prohibition. Transgression is produced amidst conditions, so it is still called having guilt. Because it runs contrary to abstaining from drink, it still does not count as keeping precepts."