宗鏡錄 48.3

48.3

Answer: The treatise says: 'Because all contaminated seeds are not distinct in substance from the maturation consciousness, they are subsumed under the indeterminate nature. Because cause and fruition both possess wholesome and other natures, they are also called wholesome and so forth. Because all uncontaminated seeds are not subsumed under the nature of the maturation consciousness, and because cause and fruition are both subsumed under the wholesome nature, they are called exclusively wholesome.' The commentary explains: 'Because these contaminated seeds are not distinct in substance from the root eighth consciousness, their category of nature is the same, being exclusively indeterminate. But the dharmas they can produce and are produced by extend to all three natures, wholesome and the rest. That is, these seeds originally can perfume the causes of active manifestations, and their subsequently produced fruitions of active manifestations also extend to the three natures; therefore it is said that "cause and fruition both possess wholesome and other natures"—this is stated from the perspective of functional distinctions, not from the perspective of substance; in substance they are exclusively indeterminate. This is stated with respect to contaminated seeds. If they are uncontaminated seeds, because they are not subsumed under the nature of maturation, they are not indeterminate. Their substance and nature do not accord with the substance of the root consciousness; since their substances are not the same, they cannot be mutually identical. Furthermore, their categories of nature differ: antidote and what is remedied, contaminated and uncontaminated, are distinct; hence they cannot be mutually identical.'