Reality itself is beyond verbalization, but one must use conventional language to encounter reality. The Path cannot be grasped through discussion, but stages [of attainment] can be discerned through the process of discussion. Therefore many explanations are conventionally presented for the sake of beings in this realm of suffering, and to teach [the truth for the sake of] the deaf and the blind.
Gishin, The Collected Teachings of the Tendai Lotus School, p. 45.
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