成唯識論了義燈 6.6

6.6

The treatise: "The all-seed consciousness (sarvabījakavijñāna)." Ximing states: 'Being able to induce its own category and induce simultaneous actual occurrences of its own category is the nature of direct cause (hetupratyaya).' He then asks himself: 'If so, how can the seeds that are drawn forth be of the nature of direct cause?' He explains: 'In reality they are not direct causes, but the Bodhisattvabhūmi nominally designates them as direct causes because they belong to the same category as direct causes.' Now I say this is not so: looking distantly toward future actual occurrences, they are called 'drawing forth' (saṃskāra/ākṣipta); seeds that have not yet been moistened, generating their own category, are also causes of this type, hence they are called direct causes.