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復次，外人或時用「道可道非常道」為絕言，破《中論》「不生不滅」，云是第四句，絕言出過四句。一往聞語，謂言出過，理則不然。言「不生」者，見心不生，既不生，即不滅，故言「不生不滅」。絕言見心，生一切愛、見、疑、慢，云何以生滅破他不生不滅？愚癡戲論，不應如此。

Furthermore, outsiders sometimes take "The Dao that can be spoken of is not the constant Dao" as the ineffable, refuting "neither arising nor ceasing" in the *Mūlamadhyamakakārikā* by claiming that it is the fourth proposition, whereas the ineffable transcends the four propositions. Hearing these words initially, one might suppose that they transcend [the propositions], but the principle is not so. When one speaks of "non-arising," the mind of views does not arise; since it does not arise, it does not cease, hence it is called "neither arising nor ceasing." The mind holding the ineffable view gives rise to all craving, views, doubt, and conceit; how can one use arising and ceasing to refute another's neither arising nor ceasing? Such foolishness and conceptual proliferation should not be.