大乘起信論略述 1.44

1.44

[Treatise:] The third is the greatness of function […] because of wholesome causes and fruitions. [Exposition:] However, function has two kinds: first, causal function, which benefits ordinary beings, noble ones, and bodhisattvas, both internally and externally; second, fruitional function, which provides the universal and distinct superior benefits of the trikāya of the Buddha-fruition. When this function can generate wholesome [states] with outflows, it is called generating mundane wholesome causes and fruitions. When it can generate wholesome [states] without outflows in sentient beings, it is called transmundane wholesome causes and fruitions. Because these benefits of cause and fruition, these functions, arise from true goodness and there is nothing they do not generate, it is called the greatness of function.