俱舍論疏 14.63

14.63

As for the treatise stating, "If one currently abides […] one possesses the present": this explains that the precepts of concentration and the path are possessed in the present. The Nyāyānusāra says: "In principle, it should simply be said that when one is in concentration or the path, one possesses the present. With regard to the uninformative [karma] of concentration and the path, one should not say 'abiding'; just as the phrase 'abiding in the fruit' speaks only of the acquisition of the fruit, not of the fruit's actual manifestation. Now by merely saying 'abiding', how is it known that concentration and the path are actually present, rather than merely possessed? Therefore, what was said still gives rise to doubt and cannot definitively prove possession of present uninformative [karma]. Hence one should merely say 'being in concentration and the path'; although the word 'abiding' was spoken, it is an unnecessary labor." Now, examining its intention: the preceding text has already spoken of possessing past and future; this sentence specifically clarifies possession of the intermediate time [the present]. Therefore we know that speaking of 'abiding' indicates its arising, not mere possession. Because it proves possession of the present by not being mere possession; since the uninformative [karma] of concentration and the path follows the mind, when a distracted mind is present, they definitely do not exist.