瑜伽師地論分門記 2.18

2.18

The first text has two alternative approaches. The first approach explains the intent of expounding the six kinds of disciplines of moral precepts based on the three characteristics such as absence of deterioration, divided into four: 1. general question; 2. brief answer; 3. listing the names; 4. individual explanations, divided into two: (1) general question; (2) individual answers, divided into three: i. explaining the intent of abiding endowed with precepts based on the characteristic of absence of deterioration, divided into two: heading, explanation; ii. explaining the intent of being able to well guard the prātimokṣa discipline based on its intrinsic nature, divided into two: heading, explanation; iii. explaining the two kinds of consummation—proper conduct and domain of activity—based on intrinsic virtue, divided into two: [i] based on predominance of others, divided into four: heading of the sūtra phrase, explanation, inquiry, answering the reason, divided into two: explaining superior benefit, divided into two (establishing the cause, revealing the result), explaining distinct faults, divided into two (establishing the absence of virtue, revealing the presence of fault); [ii] explaining seeing great fear in minor offenses and undertaking the precepts based on the intrinsic virtue of one's own predominance, divided into four: heading of the sūtra phrase, explanation, inquiry, answering the reason, divided into three: explaining the fault of lacking the two disciplines, divided into two (establishing the fault of falling into the bad destinies, explaining the fault of not realizing nirvāṇa), explaining the virtue of possessing the two disciplines, divided into two (explaining the virtue of birth in good destinies, explaining the virtue of realizing nirvāṇa), conclusion; the second approach explains the intent of establishing the six kinds of disciplines of moral precepts based on the three dharmas—nature of undertaking the precepts and so forth—divided into three: 1. general heading; 2. listing the names; 3. individual explanations, divided into three: (1) explaining the intent of abiding endowed with precepts based on the nature of undertaking the precepts, divided into two: heading of the sūtra phrase, explanation of the sūtra text; (2) explaining the intent of being able to well guard the prātimokṣa discipline based on the precept of departure, divided into four: heading of the sūtra phrase, explanation of the sūtra text, inquiry, answering the reason, divided into three (establishing the cause, divided into three as in the treatise, revealing the result, conclusion); (3) explaining the intent of the four dharmas such as proper conduct based on the nature of cultivating the precepts, divided into four: heading of the sūtra phrase, explanation of the sūtra text, inquiry, answering the reason, divided into three (establishing the cause, revealing the result, conclusion).