成唯識論述記 8.243

8.243

The Commentary states: Because they all, together with karma, similarly attract projecting and fulfilling ripened fruits, unlike the Hīnayāna with its full ten concurrent factors, since there are no real four characteristics in past or future periods. These general and particular fruits have already been fully and extensively explained as in the second fascicle. What has been discussed above refers to dharmas that manifest at the very time of initial action; if a ripening cause does not immediately receive its fruit, and the manifestation has long since ceased, how can it produce a fruit? For [dharmas] do not exist in the past or future. In order to answer this question, the treatise text next states: