宗鏡錄 72.13

72.13

Answer: Because separated from co-existent faculties, they definitely do not operate. The meaning is: when there is no faculty on which to rely, those minds and mental factors definitely cannot operate. Third, the basis as equal-and-immediate condition: the equal-and-immediate basis is narrow, taking only consciousness-kings, because consciousness-kings have the sense of dominance. As for the equal-and-immediate condition among the four conditions, it is broad, applying to both mind and mental factors. Because the preceding consciousness-king has efficacy and can lead to the generation of the collection of minds and mental factors of the succeeding moment, it is called 'equal', as their power and function are equal; having no hindrance from their own kind, it is called 'immediate'.