大乘法苑義林章 7.12

7.12

Having analyzed the arising of causes, we should now analyze the characteristics of results. There are five kinds of results: first, retributive; second, causally continuous; third, disconnection; fourth, anthropomorphic; and fifth, predominant. Here, anthropomorphic has briefly two explanations. One says: the nominal person of the five aggregates is called an 'anthropomorphic agent' (puruṣa), and the result obtained by him is called the anthropomorphic result. The other says: distinct phenomena are also called 'anthropomorphic agents'; because they possess substance and function like that nominal agent, they are named from the metaphor. Being obtained by a nominal agent is called an anthropomorphic result. If based on the first explanation, the dharmakāya is only a result of disconnection and a predominant result; being obtained by severing hindrances, it is a result of disconnection, and [its being] predominant can be understood. Because it is not sāsrava, it is not a retributive result; because it is not conditioned, it is not a causally continuous result; and because it is not directly realized by the nominal agent of the five aggregates, it is not an anthropomorphic result. If based on the latter explanation, it is also an anthropomorphic result, because it is obtained by the anthropomorphic agent of the noble path. Its substance constitutes three results, while the enjoyment and transformation [bodies] each constitute three results. Because they are not sāsrava, they are not retributive results; because they are not unconditioned, they are not results of disconnection. Among the three bodies obtained based on the aforementioned causes, that which is produced by the cause-condition is causally continuous and predominant, or is anthropomorphic or not anthropomorphic. That obtained through the predominant condition can apply to four results, excluding only retributive, because it is absent in the Buddha fruit. That obtained through the other two conditions definitely has the predominant, necessarily lacks disconnection, and may or may not have causally continuous and anthropomorphic. That which is of the same category and superior has causally continuous; viewed in relation to the rest, it does not. That obtained by the force of that has anthropomorphic; viewed in relation to the rest, it does not.