成唯識論述記 8.92

8.92

The Commentary states: Below he resolves the objection, stating: Although the generating cause contains karmic seeds and the like that are not subsumed under cause-condition, because in contrast to the projecting cause it has already been moisturized, it attains its fruit proximately. With respect to its own causes, nominal seeds (nāmaparyāya-bīja) share the same nature as their fruits, and because they are direct and prominent, it is specifically spoken of. Abbreviating the projecting cause and the karmic seeds within its own causes, they are not mentioned, and the generating cause is specifically said to be the productive cause; for having already finished being moisturized, it is only then called 'generating,' and hence relative to the projecting [cause] it is proximate.