[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [首楞嚴義疏注經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799) › 4.234 # 首楞嚴義疏注經 4.234 首楞嚴義疏注經 4.234 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.234](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4.234) 境界微妙，心言叵測。凡夫著事、偏小滯空，俱所知心，莫及斯境。故《圓覺經》云「但諸聲聞所圓境界，身心語言皆悉斷滅，終不能至彼之親證所現涅槃，何況能以有思惟心測度如來圓覺境界，如取螢火燒須彌山，終不能著，以輪迴心生輪迴見，入於如來大寂滅海，終不能至。」 > The realm is subtle and wondrous, unfathomable by mind or speech. Ordinary beings cling to phenomena; partial, lesser practitioners stagnate in emptiness; both are of the mind of known objects, unable to reach this realm. Thus the Perfect Enlightenment Sūtra states: 'Even the realm perfected by all the śrāvakas, in which body, mind, and language are all entirely cut off, can never reach the nirvāṇa manifested through their own personal realization; how much less could one use a conceptualizing mind to gauge the Tathāgata's realm of perfect enlightenment? It is like taking a firefly's light to burn Mount Sumeru—it can never ignite it. Entering the Tathāgata's great sea of tranquil extinction with a mind of cyclic existence producing views of cyclic existence, one can never reach it.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.233](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4.233) - [Next: 4.235](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4.235) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799~en-mt.4.234) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.1050) — Classical Chinese - [大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.842.1.28) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4.234](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.4.234) · Pramāṇa