(续上)借心意落入不洁状态?未完成的器物本不能染不洁,工匠若决定就让它保持未完成之状,它立刻得到完成之器的法定地位,能染不洁;然而它们脱离不洁状态,只能借一个由动作造成的改变——单决定去完成它不改其地位,只有动手完成它才失去器物的地位。动作抵消由动作与由心意所成的地位;心意却既不抵消由动作所成、也不抵消由心意所成的地位。所以为食用而割之谷的麦秸一旦算作柄、能染不洁,单凭心意就不能抵消它的地位。
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借着心意落入它们礼仪上不洁的状态吗?
descend into their state of ritual impurity by means of thought?
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一件未完成的器物平常虽然不能在礼仪上染不洁,然而工匠若决定让它保持未完成的状态,它就立刻得到一件已完成之器物的法定地位,能在礼仪上染不洁。
Although an unfinished vessel ordinarily cannot become ritually impure, if the craftsman decided to leave it in its unfinished state, it immediately assumes the legal status of a completed vessel and can become ritually impure.
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然而它们脱离礼仪上不洁的状态,只能借着一个由动作所造成的改变。
However, they ascend from their state of ritual impurity only by means of a change resulting from an action.
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单是决定要完成这件未完成的器物,并不改变它的地位。
Merely deciding to complete the unfinished vessel does not alter its status.
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只有当他采取动作去完成它时,它才失去作为器物的地位。
It loses its status as a vessel only when he takes action to complete it.
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动作抵消由动作所成的地位,也抵消由心意所成的地位;然而心意既不抵消由动作所成的地位,也不抵消由心意所成的地位。
Action negates status created by action and status created by thought; however, thought negates neither status created by action nor status created by thought.
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所以,为食用而收割的谷物,它的麦秸一旦被看作柄、能在礼仪上染不洁,它的地位就不能单凭心意而被抵消。
Therefore, once the straw of the grain harvested for food is considered a handle and is susceptible to ritual impurity, its status cannot be negated by thought alone.