成唯識論演祕 4.120

4.120

Answer: Briefly, there are two explanations: First, merely because it is separated, it cannot serve as a condition; this does not concede that what is proximate constitutes a condition, because it refutes the treatises of others. Second, even for karma with fruition in the next life, cause and fruit belong to different lifetimes and are logically estranged, so it is also called distantly separated; even if there were no great distance, being separated entails that it is not a condition. The second explanation is superior. If so, how is it in our own school?