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正舉妄計也。彼此互指既無定在，柰何惑者必然，而執我定名此、他定名彼，妄想之心依然取著。然則下，名相元空，迷夫妄執。亦可名相無、暫始有，妄想無、暫始無。以無暫始無之妄情，執無暫始有之名相，病眼花生、病耳蟬鳴，蟬花恒無病根常執。

This directly adduces false imputation. Since mutually pointing to "this" and "that" has no fixed location, how is it that the deluded take it as certain, grasping oneself as definitely named "this" and the other as definitely named "that", with the mind of false conceptualization grasping and clinging just the same? From "Thus" onward: names and characteristics are originally empty, but deluded people falsely grasp them. It can also mean that names and characteristics are non-existent, yet temporarily begin to exist; false conceptualization is non-existent, yet temporarily begins to be absent. With the deluded sentiment of what is non-existent and temporarily begins to be absent, they grasp the names and characteristics that are non-existent and temporarily begin to exist—like flowers [seen by] diseased eyes, or the cicada buzz in diseased ears; the cicadas and flowers are constantly non-existent, while the roots of the disease are constantly grasped.