成唯識論述記 8.49

8.49

The Commentary states: Within this contradictory and non-contradictory, the causes apply to both the tainted and the untainted, and the results are also like that. It prevents the conditioned untainted from arising, and prevents the unconditioned from being revealed. However, the cause of apprehension and the subsequent three causes are like those in Fascicle 5 of the *Yogācāra*, all speaking of results such as arising and abiding. They do not mention others because the other causes are narrow, while these four are broad. Yet the Great Treatise and the *Prakaraṇāryavācā* only have the latter three, stating a single result such as arising; in the cause of dependence there are none. Here, dependence is broad, whereas in that treatise it is only formulated with reference to passion and desire, so its nature is narrow. Chapter 38 explains obstacles solely based on arising, relying on the most prominent and obvious aspects. Among the six types of contradiction, this is the most prominent, so it does not contradict it either. Here, the indeterminate, defiled, and wholesome should all be understood accordingly. Although the mark of destruction in the Mahāyāna does not depend on a cause, the contradictory cause acts as a productive cause for later and later phenomena; being contradictory to the preceding phenomena, it is called a contradictory cause, not because it acts as a cause for the destruction of preceding phenomena.