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An obtaining cause (nyer-len-gyi rgyu, material cause) is the item from which one obtains the result.
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An extensive enlightenment-building network of positive force serves as the obtaining cause (nyer-len-gyi rgyu) for the body of a Buddha.
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If we differentiate unspecified karmic tendencies from constructive of destructive karmic forces, then: the karmic tendency is the equal-status cause (skal-mnyam-gyi rgyu) of the body consciousness, body, body sensors, and their physical elements, since both the karmic tendency and these forms of physical phenomena have the same ethical status as unspecified phenomena.
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That “karmic cause, which is presently happening” is also the ripening cause (rnam-smin-gyi rgyu) of the “result, which is presently happening.”
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The destructive karma force is the ripening cause (rnam-smin-gyi rgyu) of the body consciousness, body and so on.
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A similar-family cause (rigs-‘dra’i rgyu) is a “phenomenon, which is presently happening,” that serves as a model for something subsequent to it that resembles it.
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An obtaining cause is not the same as a simultaneously-arising cause (lhan-cig ‘byung-ba’i rgyu), which refer to the elements, for example, from which a seed or a clay pot are made.
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Nor is it the case that the “not-yet-happening of the result” is the obtaining cause (nyer-len-gyi rgyu) that transforms into the “result, which is presently happening” and, in doing so, perishes.
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Everyone agrees, however – even the Chittamatra school – that although the obtaining cause (nyer-len-gyi rgyu) of our seeing of them is a karmic tendency, the obtaining cause for the table we see is the tree and the obtaining cause for our friend that we see is the sperm and egg of his parents.
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The moment of the external patch of colored shape that existed as the direct cause (dngos-rgyu) of the sensory cognition of it has ceased to exist the immediately following moment when the sensory cognition with the mental aspect cast by it occurs.
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations in Alternating Order 2006
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