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經云「三界有無一切法，不能與此為譬喻。」此因結歎，便簡後喻，亦不得以世俗情所見矣。世人焉見全一大海在一波中耶？上釋結歎竟。此下喻指，文三：一喻大小無礙、二喻一異無礙、三喻諸法各各全遍。此但以海波指理事之位以分義相，非全喻法。

The sūtra says: 'All existent and non-existent phenomena in the three realms cannot serve as a metaphor for this.' Here, through concluding with praise, the subsequent metaphors are simultaneously delimited: they also cannot be viewed through the worldly sentiments [of ordinary people]. How could worldly people see the whole of an entire great ocean within a single wave? Above, the explanation concluding with praise is finished. From here below, pointing via metaphors has three parts: first, illustrating the non-obstruction of large and small; second, illustrating the non-obstruction of one and different; third, illustrating all phenomena each entirely pervading. This merely uses the ocean and waves to point to the positions of principle and phenomena so as to distinguish their doctrinal characteristics, not to serve as a complete metaphor for the teaching.