淨名玄論 3.18

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3.18

Next, to explain the inconceivability of objects, there are also three aspects: first, the conventional object; second, the real object; third, explaining the two objects together. The reason for explaining the inconceivability of objects is that cognition is not intrinsically cognition; cognition is elicited by objects. It is truly because objects are inconceivable that cognition is inconceivable. If cognition were intrinsically inconceivable while objects were not inconceivable, how could an object that can be conceived elicit an inconceivable cognition, or an inconceivable cognition illuminate an object that can be conceived?

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淨名玄論 — Classical Chinese