諸經要集 12.71

12.71

Next, according to the Vibhāṣā-śāstra: "Question: Are the sense faculties of the intermediate existence complete or incomplete? Answer: All intermediate existences have all faculties complete, for the initial reception of maturation is necessarily fully formed and exquisite. Some say they are not complete, just as an impression appears when a seal stamps an object; in this way, because the intermediate existence tends toward the basic existence, just as in the basic existence, there may be incomplete faculties. Here, the first explanation is logically sound, meaning that in the state of intermediate existence, seeking rebirth everywhere through the gates of the six sense-bases, the faculties are necessarily without defect. This refers to the eyes and other [faculties], not to the male and female organs, for the intermediate existence of the form realm lacks those faculties; and in the intermediate existence of the desire realm, they are also not fixed. Those who are to take birth from eggs or wombs have male or female organs while abiding in the intermediate existence, and only when they enter an egg or womb do they become incomplete. Were it not so, there would be no sense in receiving birth from an egg or womb. Question: What are the postures of movement of the intermediate existences of the various destinies? Answer: The intermediate existence of the hells moves toward the hells with head down and feet up. Therefore, a gāthā says: