大華嚴經略策 1.39

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第三十二、果海離言。問：修因契果諸教爰同，《華嚴》之中自說五周因果，依正二報燦然可觀、十身圓融前後頻有。何言果海本離言詮？若離言詮何由證入？答：佛法雖廣略有二門：一者宗通，二者說通。宗亦名證，說亦名教，即教證二道。宗通示修行，說通示未悟，尋言契理必以教為筌罤，得意亡言必在虛心體極。今言果海約證相應，可寄言詮皆名因分，因則可修可說，果則亡修離言。然果假因成，證須修入；攬因成證，證乃心冥。境智尚亡，言詮何有？欲令亡言得旨，故稱果海離言。得意亡言，因果本亡能所。謹對。

Thirty-second: The ocean of the fruit being beyond words. Question: Cultivating the cause to tally with the fruit is the same in all teachings; in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra itself, five cycles of cause and effect are explained, the two retributions of environment and person are vividly observable, and the perfect interfusion of the ten bodies appears frequently throughout. Why is it said that the ocean of the fruit is fundamentally beyond verbal explanation? If it is beyond verbal explanation, by what means can one realize and enter it? Answer: Although the Buddhadharma is vast, there are briefly two gates: first, penetrating the ultimate meaning; second, penetrating the verbal teaching. The ultimate meaning is also called realization; the verbal teaching is also called the teaching: these are the two paths of teaching and realization. Penetrating the ultimate meaning shows practice; penetrating the verbal teaching shows the unawakened. Following words to tally with principle must take the teaching as a trap and snare; grasping the intent and forgetting words must lie in emptying the mind to embody the ultimate. Now, saying that the ocean of the fruit is beyond words refers to matching realization: whatever can be lodged in verbal explanation is called the causal share. The cause can be cultivated and spoken; the fruit forgets cultivation and transcends words. Yet the fruit is accomplished through the cause, and realization requires cultivation to enter; gathering the cause accomplishes realization, and realization is the mind merging into darkness. When object and wisdom are both obliterated, where can verbal explanation remain? Wishing to lead one to forget words and grasp the essential point, it is called the ocean of the fruit being beyond words. When the intent is grasped and words are forgotten, cause and effect fundamentally obliterate subject and object. Respectfully answered.