The History of Buddhist Thought c25.37

c25.37

“There are four kinds of conditions : cause (hetu), object (ālambana), the preceding moment (anantara), and the predominating condition (adhipati).¹ In these conditions no self-existence of the entities is found. When there is no self-existence, there is no related existence.” Here the existence of any causal relation is denied, much as was done by Hume. By association we read causal relations into the sequence. “Effect is with conditions ; effect is not with conditions ; conditions are not without effects, nor with them.”