大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 64.87

64.87

On the commentary passage from “The tenth fascicle of the Yogācāra[bhūmi]” onwards: third, harmonizing disparate explanations. There are two passages in all; both are from the Vijñaptimātrasiddhi, implicitly connecting to the Yogācārabhūmi; here he reveals the names and sequence of the cited treatises. First, regarding “speaking only of karma seeds,” the meaning is: the cause is good and evil, and the result is indeterminate; this is called the maturation-result. Although the five seeds of consciousness and so forth are properly the causes, they lack the power to generate, so in properly generating the result they cannot be called existence. Therefore the Yogācāra[bhūmi] next asks: Why does it not speak of the self-entity as a condition for its own self-entity? It answers: Because if that self-entity does not obtain other conditions, it can neither increase nor decrease with respect to the defilements of its self-entity; therefore it is not spoken of. This is precisely the meaning. Regarding “as spoken in the subsequent section,” the sūtra in the subsequent section says: “The karma with outflows arisen from grasping constitutes existence; this is it.”