大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 1.8

1.8

四「超言思而逈出」者，融拂上三也。融則三一互收，拂則三一雙寂。云何超耶？謂理圓言偏，言生理喪。法無相想，思則亂生。並皆超之，故云逈出。故肇公云：「口欲談而詞喪，心將緣而慮亡。」則逈出於言象之表矣。何者？欲言相用，即同體寂；欲謂體寂，相用紛然。即一而三相不同、即三而一體無二，三一無礙，互奪雙亡、存泯莫羈，豈言象之能至？故云逈出。又借斯亡絕以遣言思，非有無言可為棲託，故下經云「雖復不依言語道，亦復不著無言說。」況言相本寂，亡絕亦亡，斯則言與亡言相待亦寂，故假逈出之稱以拂言與亡言之迹矣。

Fourth, 'surpassing words and thought and towering far beyond' harmonizes and eliminates the previous three. Harmonizing means the three and the one mutually subsume each other; eliminating means the three and the one are both quiescent. How does it surpass them? Principle is round while words are partial; when words arise, principle is lost. Dharmas are without marks or conceptual thoughts; when one thinks, confusion arises. Both are surpassed, hence it says 'towering far beyond'. Thus Master Zhao said: 'The mouth desires to speak, but words fail; the mind is about to condition, but thought vanishes.' Thus it towers far beyond the realm of words and images. Why? If one wishes to speak of characteristics and function, they are identical to the quiescence of essence; if one wishes to say it is the quiescence of essence, characteristics and function are manifold. Being identical to the one, the three characteristics are not identical; being identical to the three, the one essence is not two. The three and the one are unobstructed, mutually negating and both vanishing; their preservation and extinction are unconstrained—how could words and images reach them? Hence it says 'towering far beyond'. Furthermore, one borrows this vanishing and elimination to dismiss words and thought; it is not that there is a wordlessness upon which one can rely. Hence the sūtra below says: 'Although not relying on the path of verbal expression, / one also does not cling to wordlessness.' Moreover, since verbal characteristics are fundamentally quiescent, vanishing and elimination also vanish; here, words and the vanishing of words are relatively quiescent. Therefore, the appellation 'towering far beyond' is provisionally used to sweep away the traces of words and wordlessness.