法苑珠林 68.44

English (machine translation) 68.44

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68.44

Question: Why is it named 'intentional mind'? Answer: If without an intentional mind the sin of killing living beings were constituted, then an arhat would not attain nirvāṇa. Because an arhat has cut off worldly causes, if he were to kill a sentient being without an acting mind, he should also be reborn in the world; but in fact that is not so. By this meaning, killing without an intentional mind does not incur sinful retribution.

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese