起信論疏筆削記 13.9

13.9

Second, directly citing the text of the sūtra. Regarding "inconceivable perfuming and transformation": if it were purely capable of being perfumed and transformed, it would be like clothing and so forth, which is conceivable, and this would be the view of ordinary beings; if it were purely incapable of being perfumed and transformed, it would be like jade and stone, which is also conceivable, and this would be identical to what is spoken in the provisional teachings. Now, because it is neither of these two, it is inconceivable.