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# 摩訶止觀 5.77

摩訶止觀 5.77

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1911.5.77)

答：不可思議，無相而相，觀智宛然。他解須彌容芥，芥容須彌；火出蓮華，人能渡海；就希有事解不思議。今解：無心、無念、無能行、無能到，不思議理，理則勝事。

> Answer: It is inconceivable: signless yet having signs, the contemplative wisdom remains completely clear. Others interpret Sumeru containing a mustard seed, a mustard seed containing Sumeru, a lotus emerging from fire, and human beings being able to cross the ocean as explaining the inconceivable in terms of rare phenomena. The present interpretation is: no mind, no thought, no one capable of practice, and no one capable of arrival—the inconceivable principle, and the principle surpasses phenomena.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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