成唯識論述記 4.229

4.229

述曰：非識自體事善惡性，類成無記。所以者何？別類必同別事性故；非如眾同分是總類，同異句等是總類故。彼與法自體事性異，此是別法，法之別類唯在識上有，不通餘故。雖無同喻，以理徵之，彼言識法同分是無記，識通三性，此類可然故可熏者。

The Commentary states: It cannot be that while the actual individual entity of consciousness is wholesome or unwholesome, the category is indeterminate. Why is this so? Because a specific category must share the nature of its specific individual entity; it is not like nikāya-sabhāga which is a universal category, or the category of sāmānya-viśeṣa and so forth which are universal categories. Those are different in nature from the individual entity of the dharma; this is a specific dharma, and the specific category of a dharma exists only upon consciousness and does not extend to others. Although there is no concordant example, it is investigated through reasoning. If they say that the sabhāga of consciousness-dharmas is indeterminate, and consciousness encompasses the three moral natures, so this category can be so and hence can be perfumed: