宗鏡錄 79.13

79.13

Answer: Some say: Since trees and the like are produced from seeds of common characteristics (sāmānya-lakṣaṇa), they all accord with each other and mutually augment each other. What that one sentient being himself transformed is what is directly used as the cognitive object (ālambana). What others transformed serves as an indirect condition (adhipatipratyaya) for what he himself transformed, and is also used as a distant condition. Looking at them altogether, oneself is that which is conformed to, and others are that which conforms. Because that which is conformed to is absent, that which conforms also ceases. Due to this the tree is lost, and consciousness-only is also established.