淨名經集解關中疏 1.463

1.463

"Why is this? The arising of that offense is not within, not without, and not in between." This second is explaining. Sengzhao says: "The arising of the burden of offenses is accomplished through causes and conditions; if one seeks their true nature, it is not in these three places. For instance, killing depends on the other and oneself; 'other and oneself' are precisely the internal and the external. From oneself, it is not killing; from the other, it is also not killing. Since both the other and oneself are not it, how could it be in between? What is formed by many conditions is, when examined, entirely unreal."