注大乘入楞伽經 4.19

4.19

It states that a lump of clay is the cause, water, a stick, and the like are the conditions, and their completion into a jar is the fruit. Just as cause and fruit are like this for a clay jar, so by analogy the other four—cloth made from threads and so on—are also like this. All take thread, grass, seed, and milk as their cause, while cloth, mats, sprouts, and butter are the fruit; the meaning of conditions can be known from this. These are called phenomena produced from conditions, which must first have the cause and later the fruit, arising successively. That is to say, that which directly brings about [the result] is the cause, and that which distantly assists is the condition.