成唯識論演祕 6.331

6.331

Answer: Opening the thirty-eighth fascicle of the *Yogācārabhūmi*, it says: "Regarding the various crops in the world, worldly life-sustaining things belonging to the category of grains, all their various names, concepts, and speech," namely grain, wheat, and the like—precisely this, in relation to those various crops, is the conventional cause. Further, regarding all defiled dependent origination, all the various names, concepts, and speech of ignorance, formations, consciousness, extensively up to sorrow, lamentation, and vexation—precisely this, in relation to those various defiled dharmas, is the conventional cause. Further, regarding all dharmas belonging to the pure category and cessation/nirvāṇa, all their various names, concepts, and speech—precisely this, in relation to those various pure dharmas, is the conventional cause.