宗鏡錄 66.14

66.14

Answer: 'In all receiving of birth, consciousness is the seed. Entering the mother's womb, moistened by the water of craving, the body-tree is able to grow. Just as a walnut seed grows according to its kind, this skandha creates karma that can induce a later skandha. Yet this prior skandha does not produce the later skandha; due to karmic conditions, one then receives the later skandha. Although reaching extinction is different, there is continuous succession without interruption. It is like an infant's illness: if medicine is given to the wet nurse, the child's affliction is cured. Although the mother is not the child, the efficacy of the medicine can reach the child. The skandhas are also like this: because there is the power of karma, one then receives the later skandha and remembers without forgetting.'