淨名玄論 3.23

3.23

Fourth, explaining the number of inconceivabilities. Question: In general, how many approaches to the inconceivable are there? Answer: The number is exceedingly great and cannot be fully enumerated. We now briefly present five types to show their essentials: first, the inconceivability of hearing and not hearing; second, the inconceivability of the great and the small; third, the inconceivability of the general and the specific; fourth, the inconceivability of the root and the trace; fifth, the inconceivability of the internal and the external. These five approaches summarily subsume the many numbers; no meaning is left ungathered.