俱舍論疏 6.57

6.57

On the Śāstra's statement: "Yet in the world... the meaning of cause and effect": having previously conceded, the Sautrāntika now withdraws its concession. That in the world seeds and so forth serve as causes for sprouts and so on is universally established in the world. Among actual instances of cause and effect generating each other, one never sees simultaneous cause and effect as posited by the Sarvāstivādin's establishment of the coexistence cause. Therefore, one should now ask the Sarvāstivāda school: How can there be the meaning of cause and effect among an aggregate of simultaneously arising phenomena? If a phenomenon has not yet arisen, the cause has not grasped the result; if the cause has grasped the result, the resultant phenomenon has already arisen. How can simultaneously arising phenomena constitute cause and effect?