成唯識論述記 8.324

8.324

問：若爾，何故《大論》第九云：三行所熏發種子六識，及種子所生果時六識名為識支，處處又說行熏於識，識與名色得互為緣識入母胎，非種子時有是義故。《十地論》云：如無明有子時、果時，乃至於生、老死亦爾。答：此論下云：此五種子在於因時無有前後，約當生果位中說故有前後也，或於現在是過去世，此生、老死位說識支故，有現行識其實唯種，不爾，便違五十六說。彼說五種胎藏苦故。此論所引支中，又言識等五是種故，識既如此說名色入母胎，乃至說受亦有二種，謂境界受為愛緣等，皆准此知。此五體皆唯種子，故約當生位，及於生、老死位說故，言有現行實皆無也，此唯無覆無記性攝。

Question: If so, why does fascicle 9 of the Great Treatise state: the six consciousnesses as seeds perfumed and originated by the three formations, and the six consciousnesses at the time of fruit produced by the seeds, are called the member of consciousness; and in various places it is also said that formations perfume consciousness, that consciousness and name-and-form can serve mutually as conditions, and that consciousness enters the mother's womb—meanings that do not apply when it is in the state of seeds? The Daśabhūmika-śāstra states: just as ignorance has a time of seed and a time of fruit, it is likewise up to birth and old age and death. Answer: The subsequent text of this treatise states: these five seeds have no sequence at the time of cause; they are spoken of as having a sequence in terms of the stages of fruits to be born; or, within the present, they belong to past lives, and because the member of consciousness is spoken of at the stage of this birth and old age and death, there is active consciousness, but in reality it is solely seeds. If it were not so, it would contradict what is said in fascicle 56. There, it states that the five seeds are suffering of the womb. Furthermore, among the induced members in this treatise, it states that the five, such as consciousness, are seeds; since consciousness is like this, the statements that name-and-form enters the mother's womb, and even that feeling is of two kinds—namely, feeling of sense-objects serving as the condition for craving, etc.—are all understood on this basis. The essences of these five are all solely seeds; therefore, speaking in terms of the stage of impending birth and the stage of birth and old age and death, they are said to have active manifestations, but in reality they have none; this is subsumed exclusively under the non-obscured indeterminate nature.