大般涅槃經集解 55.78

55.78

Sengliang comments: He borrows the Abhidharma school's doctrine to lodge and clarify the purport of repeated causes and repeated fruits. Minor arising gives rise only to a single dharma, while major arising gives rise to eight dharmas; thus minor arising and major arising are further cause and effect to each other, also having the meaning of repeated causes and repeated fruits. "Cannot give rise to itself" means that the three entities of major arising cannot give rise to themselves. "Arising through arising-arising" means that minor arising comes to give rise to their entities. "Arising-arising does not give rise to itself" means that the arising that gives rise to major arising does not give rise to itself, but also relies on major arising to arise.