瑜伽論記 2.179

2.179

Regarding "In this dharma": basing themselves on three kinds of scriptural teachings, they posit that the past and future exist: 1. Basing on the *Twelve Āyatanas Sūtra*; 2. Basing on the *Past Karma Sūtra*; 3. Basing on the *Three Times and Five Skandhas Sūtra*. In their adherence to this based on reason, non-Buddhists and Hīnayāna are explained together in one place. Regarding "They consider thus... up to... its nature and characteristics are substantially existent": that is, if the future did not exist originally and only existed in the present, then the future would first receive characteristics such as form and mind and only later have form and mind; if so, then the horns of a hare, which did not exist originally, would also exist at a later time. If the past did not exist, it should lose its own-characteristic, and such an own-characteristic should not come to fruition. By this reason, they adhere to past and future being existent.