成唯識論述記 2.885

2.885

The Commentary states: Only seeds and actualities are truly named cause and condition; apart from these, cause and condition does not exist. The actual seventh consciousness is not taken as a cause with respect to the actual eighth, but rather seeds are taken as causes with respect to subsequent [actualities]. Furthermore, here, with respect to substance, the substance of cause and condition is exhausted; but with respect to distinctions of effects, there is also seeds generating seeds—how could that not be cause and condition? Therefore, here it is spoken of only in terms of substance, and moreover it does not exhaust all cases, since untainted dharmas are not mentioned.