略論安樂淨土義 1.36

1.36

「答曰：『世間非有邊、非無邊，亦絕四句。佛令眾生離此四句，名之為度。其實非度、非不度，非盡、非不盡。譬如夢渡大海，值濤波諸難，其人畏怖叫聲徹外，外人喚覺，坦然無憂，但為渡夢，不為渡河。』

"The answer is: 'The world is neither with an end nor without an end, and also transcends the tetralemma. The Buddha causes sentient beings to be free from this tetralemma, which is termed "delivering." In reality, there is neither delivering nor not delivering, neither exhausting nor not exhausting. For example, if someone dreams of crossing a great ocean and encounters the perils of surging waves, he screams in fear so loud that the sound carries outside; when a person outside calls out and awakens him, he is calm and without sorrow. This was merely crossing over a dream, not crossing over a river.'