Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, Volume Ten (The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination)

Original text: 问。若取为缘。皆是有耶。设是有者。皆取为缘耶。答。亦应作顺后句。谓所有有。皆取为缘。或取为缘。而非是有。谓除有所余有支。 

Explanation: Question: If some dharmas arise with grasping (upādāna) as their condition, do they all belong to existence (bhava)? If these dharmas all belong to existence, are they all born with grasping as their condition? Answer: Here too one should apply the "consequent" form of reply (answering in accord with the latter statement). All existence is born with grasping as its condition, but dharmas born with grasping as their condition do not all belong to existence; there are also dharmas other than existence, such as the links of the twelve links other than existence—birth, aging-and-death, volitional formations, consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, and so on. Grasping is the direct condition of the link of existence, and the indirect condition of the other links; all of them appear because of grasping. 

Original text: 问。若有为缘。皆是生耶。设是生者。皆有为缘耶。答。诸所有生。皆有为缘。或有为缘。而非是生。谓除生所余老死。最后有支。 

Explanation: Question: If some dharmas appear with existence as their condition, do they all belong to the link of birth? If these dharmas all belong to the link of birth, do they all appear with existence as their condition? Answer: All birth appears with existence as its condition, but some dharmas that appear with existence as their condition do not all belong to the link of birth. For example, aging-and-death, the final link of existence apart from the link of birth, also appears only with existence as its condition; without the existence of the five aggregates of the world, there would be no phenomenon of aging and death. 

Original text: 问。若生为缘。皆老死耶。设是老死。皆生为缘耶。答。所有老死。皆生为缘。或生为缘。而非老死。所谓疾病。怨憎合会。亲爱别离。所求不遂。及彼所起愁叹忧苦。种种热恼。 

Explanation: Question: If some dharmas appear with birth as their condition, do they all belong to the link of aging-and-death? If these dharmas are all subsumed under the link of aging-and-death, do they all appear with birth as their condition? Answer: All phenomena of aging and death appear with birth as their condition, but some dharmas appear with birth as their condition yet do not belong to the phenomena of aging and death—for example, illness, association with the hateful and beloved separation, not obtaining what one seeks, as well as the sorrow, lamentation, grief, and distress, and the various torments, that arise from these.