大乘起信論略述 1.57

1.57

Treatise: "Because all […] cannot be apprehended." Commentary: This reveals that the ultimate is free from predication. Here someone doubts: "If all phenomena lack intrinsic nature and are entirely suchness, devoid of verbal explanation and so forth, why is there speech regarding phenomena? Since there is speech, there ought to be phenomena." Therefore, this explanation says: Truly, because all phenomena are suchness, they are not verbal explanations and the like. That there are words is merely conventional designation, established only following the deluded thoughts of sentient beings; they cannot be apprehended as actual denotations.