法苑珠林 68.29

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問曰。於業道中。何者是前眷屬。何者是後眷屬。答曰。若起殺生方便。如屠兒殺羊。或以物買將詣屠所。始下一刀。或二三刀。羊命未斷。所有惡業名前眷屬。隨下何刀。斷其命根。即彼念時。所有作業。及無作業。是等皆名根本業道。次後所作身行作業。是名殺生後眷屬業。乃至綺語皆亦如是。應知自餘貪瞋邪見業中無前眷屬。以初起心即時成就根本業道。

Question: Among the paths of karma, which are the antecedent concomitants and which are the subsequent concomitants? Answer: If one initiates the preparatory means of taking life—as when a butcher slaughters a sheep, whether buying it with goods, bringing it to the slaughterhouse, or striking the first blow, or two or three blows, while the sheep's life has not yet ceased—all such unwholesome karma is called the antecedent concomitants. With whichever blow severs its life faculty, at that very thought-moment all manifest karma and unmanifest karma are collectively called the fundamental karmic path. The subsequent physical bodily actions performed thereafter are called the subsequent concomitant karmas of taking life. This applies likewise up to frivolous speech, as should be understood. As for the remaining karmas of covetousness, ill will, and wrong view, there are no antecedent concomitants, because as soon as the mind first arises, it immediately accomplishes the fundamental karmic path.