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五、畢竟不可思議不思議義者，如澄潭山影、如春陽百草、如眾生業力、如日月光相、如胎中根、如身中我、如齒堅舌柔、如眉橫髮長，是畢竟不可思議不思議義。所以十方諸佛，吐心吐膽，亦只道得箇希有難信而已；雖有遍覆三千大千舌相，詎能分疏其萬一哉！孔子曰：「夫婦之愚，可以與知，及其至也，聖人不知。」至哉言也，無量法門，一以貫之矣。

Fifth, as for the inconceivable meaning of the ultimately inconceivable: it is like the mountain's reflection in a clear pool, like the hundred grasses in the spring sun, like the karma-power of sentient beings, like the light-characteristics of the sun and moon, like the sense-faculties in the womb, like the self within the body, like teeth being hard and the tongue soft, like eyebrows being horizontal and hair growing long—this is the inconceivable meaning of the ultimately inconceivable. For this reason, even when the buddhas of the ten directions pour out their hearts and gall, they can only call it rare and difficult to believe; though having tongue-characteristics that cover the three-thousand great-thousand [worlds], how could they explain even one part in ten thousand! Confucius said: 'The ignorance of common men and women can know it, yet when it comes to its utmost reach, even the sage does not know.' Utmost indeed are these words! The immeasurable Dharma gates are threaded through by this single principle.