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The fourteen difficult questions of the "heretics" to which the Buddha made no reply, for, as it is said, the questions were no more properly put than if one asked " How much milk can you get from cow's horn?" They are forms of: All is permanent, impermanent, both or neither; all changes, changes not, both, neither; at death a spirit departs, does not, both, neither; after death we have the same body (or personality) and spirit, or body and spirit are different.
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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous
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(名數)外道十四難句,佛不答之。一、世界及我為常耶?二、世界及我為無常耶?三、世界及我為亦有常亦無常耶?四、世界及我為非有常非無常耶?五、世界及我為有邊耶?六、世界及我為無邊耶?七、世界及我為亦有邊亦無邊耶?八、世界及我為非有邊非無邊耶?九、死後有神去耶?十、死後無神去耶?十一、死後亦有神去亦無神去耶?十二、死後亦非有神去亦非無神去耶?十三、後世是身是神耶?十四、身異神異耶?問曰:若佛為一切智人何不答此十四難?答曰:無此事實,故不答。諸法有常無此理,諸法斷亦無此理,以是故佛不答。譬如人問搆牛角得幾汁之乳?是為非問。不可答也。出智度論二,俱舍論十九。
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丁福保《佛學大辭典》