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廣弘明集 22.22

廣弘明集 22.22

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Classical Chinese

22.22

若如來論。七尺之神神則無處非形。形則無處非神矣。刀則惟刃是利。非刃則不受利名。故刃是舉體之稱。利是一處之目。刀之與利既不同矣。形之與神豈可妄合耶。

If it were as your treatise says, for a spirit of seven feet, there would be no part of the spirit that is not body, and no part of the body that is not spirit. In the case of a knife, sharpness belongs only to the blade; what is not the blade does not receive the designation of sharpness. Hence "blade" is an appellation for the entire substance, whereas "sharpness" is the designation of a single part. Since the knife and its sharpness are already not identical, how could body and spirit be arbitrarily equated?

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