宗鏡錄 48.35

48.35

Answer: It is excluded by the fourth characteristic. The treatise says: '4. Having the nature of concordance with the active perfumer, etc.: If it is at the same time and in the same place, neither identical nor separate with the active perfumer, it is then the passive recipient of perfuming. This excludes another body, or prior and posterior kṣaṇas, which lack the principle of concordance, and thus are not passive recipients of perfuming. Only the ripening consciousness possesses these four characteristics and can be the passive recipient of perfuming, not mental factors, and so on.' The commentary explains: 'Now, taking this person's eighth consciousness in relation to another person's prior seven, because there is no concordance of the same time and the same place, it is not the passive recipient of perfuming. It also refutes the Sautrāntika master who takes the substance of consciousness of a prior thought to perfume the characteristic of consciousness of a subsequent thought; not being simultaneous, it is also not the passive recipient of perfuming. Next, the four characteristics of the active perfumer are: 1. having arising and cessation; 2. having superior function; 3. having increase and decrease; 4. concordance with the passive recipient of perfuming. These four characteristics each also have what they exclude.'