瑜伽論記 3.161

3.161

To the answer, "Because it is designated based on one whose mind is liberated," and so on: The intended meaning explains that before entering the noble [path], in the initial stage of provisioning, one first contemplates in direct order; in the path of preparation, one contemplates in reverse order, generating the forty-four cognitions and so forth; entering the path of seeing and beyond, one abandons in direct order, so that with the cessation of ignorance there is the cessation of formations, and so on. In the liberated body of an aśaikha, taking present name-and-form as first and feeling as last, the seeds of the four branches cannot serve as causes to produce the fruits of birth and aging-and-death in future lives; this explains that the causes of suffering cannot produce.