首楞嚴義疏注經 4.599

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「阿難，聲銷無響，汝說無聞，若實無聞，聞性已滅同于枯木。鍾聲更擊，汝云何知？知有知無，自是聲塵或無或有，豈彼聞性為汝有無？聞實云無，誰知無者？」

"Ānanda, when the sound has subsided and there is no reverberation, you say there is no hearing. If there were truly no hearing, the nature of hearing would have already perished, identical to dried wood. When the bell's sound is struck again, how do you know it? Knowing presence and knowing absence naturally belongs to the dust of sound being either absent or present; how could that nature of hearing be present or absent on your account? If hearing were truly said to be absent, who is the one that knows this absence?"