法苑珠林 86.40

86.40

Second is that shame and conscience are fundamental as the essential method for repenting of sins. I feel shame regarding these sins, [unfit to be] counted among human ranks; I feel conscience regarding these sins, not receiving the protection of heaven. These are the white phenomena, and they are also the supreme heaven of truth for practitioners of the three vehicles, the transcendental white phenomena. This is repentance and conscience overturning and breaking through the black phenomena of shamelessness. One must possess this mind before one can carry out the subsequent articles of repentance.