[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 11.7 # 諸經要集 11.7 諸經要集 11.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11.7) 問曰。云何名業道義。答曰。身口七業。即自體相為名業道。餘三者意相應心。又即彼業能作道果。名為業道。問曰。若即業名道。皆能趣地獄等者。何故餘三非是業道。答曰。如彼七業。此三能作彼根本故。以相應故。不能如彼業。故不名業道如對法論云。復次有四種諸業差別。謂黑黑異熟業。白白異熟業。黑白黑白異熟業。非黑白無異熟業能盡諸業。黑黑異熟業者。謂不善業。由染污故。不可愛異熟故。白白異熟業者。謂三界善業。不染污故。可愛異熟故。黑白黑白異熟業者。謂欲界雜業。善不善雜故。非黑白無異熟業能盡諸業者。謂於方便無間道中。諸無漏業。以方便道無間道是彼諸業對治故。非黑者。離煩惱垢故。白者。一向清淨故。無異熟者。生死相違故。能盡諸業者。由無漏業。為永拔得黑等三有漏業與異熟習氣故。又優婆塞戒經云。若善男子。有人不解如是業緣。無量世中流轉生死。雖生非想非非想處壽八萬劫。福盡還墮三惡道。故佛告善男子。一切模畫無勝於意。意畫煩惱。煩惱畫業。業則畫身。 > Question: What is meant by the meaning of 'path of karma' (karmapatha)? > Answer: The seven karmas of body and speech, by their own essential characteristics, are called 'paths of karma.' The remaining three are minds associated with mental intentions; furthermore, because those very karmas are capable of producing the paths and their fruits, they are called 'paths of karma.' > Question: If karma itself is called a path and can lead to hell and the like, why are the remaining three not paths of karma? > Answer: Like those seven karmas, these three can serve as their root; because they are associated with them, they cannot be like those karmas, and therefore are not called paths of karma. > As the Abhidharmasamuccaya says: Furthermore, there are four kinds of distinctions in karma: black karma with black maturation, white karma with white maturation, black-and-white karma with black-and-white maturation, and neither-black-nor-white karma without maturation that can exhaust all karmas. 'Black karma with black maturation' refers to unwholesome karma: because it is defiled, it yields undesirable maturation. 'White karma with white maturation' refers to wholesome karma of the three realms: because it is undefiled, it yields desirable maturation. 'Black-and-white karma with black-and-white maturation' refers to miscellaneous karma of the desire realm: because wholesome and unwholesome are mixed. 'Neither-black-nor-white karma without maturation that can exhaust all karmas' refers to the untainted karmas in the path of preparation and the path of uninterrupted progress: because the path of preparation and the path of uninterrupted progress are the antidotes to those karmas. 'Not black' means being free from the stains of defilement; 'white' means being entirely pure; 'without maturation' means being contrary to saṃsāra; 'can exhaust all karmas' means that by untainted karma, one forever eradicates the latent impressions of the three tainted karmas, such as black, along with their maturation. > Furthermore, the Upāsaka-śīla-sūtra says: If, good son, there are people who do not understand such karmic conditions, they transmigrate through birth and death for immeasurable lifetimes; though born in the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception with a lifespan of eighty thousand eons, when their merit is exhausted, they fall back into the three evil destinies. Therefore, the Buddha told the good son: Of all paintings, none surpasses the mind: the mind paints defilements, defilements paint karma, and karma paints the body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11.6) - [Next: 11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11.8) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.11.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.70.58) — Classical Chinese - [彌勒菩薩所問經論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.sastra.maitreyapariprcchopadesa*zh-bodhiruci.4.11) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.11.7) · Pramāṇa