首楞嚴義疏注經 5.92

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The Buddha told Ānanda: "You know that this precious flower cloth was originally only a single piece, yet when I tied it six times, it was named as having six knots. Observe carefully: the substance of the cloth is the same, but because of the knots there are differences. What do you think? The first knot formed was called the first; so on down to the arising of the sixth knot—if I now wish to make the name of the sixth knot into the first, can that be?" "No, World-Honoured One! If the six knots remain, this sixth name can never be the first. Even if throughout my lives I were to exhaust my discernment, how could I confuse the names of these six knots?"