肇論新疏 3.265

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請以近喻，以況遠旨。如人斬木，去尺無尺、去寸無寸。修短在於尺寸，不在於無也。

Please allow a proximate metaphor to illustrate the remote meaning: It is like a person hewing timber—clearing away a foot, there is no foot; clearing away an inch, there is no inch. Long and short reside in the feet and inches, not in the non-existence.