Lectures on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra) (146)

Original text:佛言大王。如是如是。愚夫异生。见鼻根坏。起恐怖想。造作痴业。身三语四。意三种业。最初造作。刹那灭谢。是业灭已。不依四方。四维上下。中间而住。最后边际。命根灭尽。自分业报。皆悉现前。犹如梦觉。念梦中事。

Explanation: The Buddha said: Great King, it is indeed so. Foolish ordinary worldlings (pṛthagjana), upon seeing their own nose faculty degenerate, give rise to terrifying thoughts and create karma of delusion—three kinds of bodily karma, four kinds of verbal karma, and three kinds of mental karma. From the very moment of initial creation, these karmic formations cease instant by instant even as they are being made. After these karmic formations cease, they do not abide depending on the four directions, the four intermediate directions, above and below, or the center. However, when the final limit is reached and the life faculty is completely extinguished, the karmic retribution created by oneself in this life all manifests in full, just like waking from a dream and still recollecting the events in the dream.