弘明集 9.21

9.21

Answer: Strange words indeed! If a human had a material substance like wood to serve as corporeal form, and had a sentience different from wood to serve as spirit, then it would be as your argument says. But now, human material substance is a material substance with sentience; wood's material substance is a material substance without sentience. Human material substance is not wood's material substance, and wood's material substance is not human material substance. How could there be a material substance like wood that also possesses a sentience different from wood?