Canonical Classics ← 第五十八回
第五十八回
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Two Minds Throw the Great Cosmos into Confusion · One Body Cannot Cultivate the True Nirvana

同像同音
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

同像同音 Same Form Same Voice

shànlíngyīnnéngcházhīqiánhòuwànjiēmíngzhēnkōngtóngxiàngtóngyīnzhěliùěrhóu。」shànlíngyīnnéngcházhīqiánhòuwànjiēmíngzhēnkōngtóngxiàngtóngyīnzhěliùěrhóu。」


逐句解 Line by line

shànlíngyīnnéngcházhīqiánhòuwànjiēmíng shànlíngyīnnéngcházhīqiánhòuwànjiēmíng

"Therefore he is skilled at listening to sounds, can examine principles, knows what came before and what comes after, and to him all the ten thousand things are plain.

The Buddha quotes his own catalogue straight back as the explanation of the particular case — the same four abilities, word for word.

zhēnkōngtóngxiàngtóngyīnzhěliùěrhóu。」 zhēnkōngtóngxiàngtóngyīnzhěliùěrhóu。」

One of the same form and the same voice as the true Wukong — that is the Six-Eared Macaque."

同像同音, same form and same voice, answers the assembly's 兩張口一樣聲 exactly, and closes the exposition on the name.


總評 Commentary

The Buddha closes by repeating himself word for word. 善聆音能察理知前後萬物皆明 was given four segments ago as the fourth entry in a general catalogue; here it comes back as the account of one particular creature standing in front of him. The repetition is the argument: the general description and the specific case are the same description.

與真悟空同像同音者六耳獼猴也 lands on the name for the second time, and the phrasing answers the assembly's failure directly. They heard 兩張口一樣聲, two mouths with one voice, and could not tell. The Buddha takes their own observation — same form and same voice — and turns it from the reason nobody could identify him into the definition of what he is.

It is a characteristically economical resolution. Nothing is added to the evidence. The evidence is reclassified. Everyone in the chapter had all the facts and was short of exactly one category.