宗鏡錄 51.37

51.37

Answer: If the Mahāyāna were to accept that the subsequent five sets of three are also not separate from visual consciousness, while avoiding the fallacy of inconclusiveness, it would contradict its own school's tenets, because the Mahāyāna school maintains that the subsequent five sets of three are definitely separate from visual consciousness. Therefore, half of the reason, "subsumed under the first three," is posited to exclude the subsequent five sets of three from being subsumed under the first three.