Visuddhimagga VIII-186

222. Yasmā panettha idameva catukkaṃ ādikammikassa kammaṭṭhānavasena vuttaṃ.

(第一四法的修习)这(第一)四法是依初学者的(观身念处的奢摩他)业处说的,

[Method of Development]

Ñ(VIII,186): The first tetrad is set forth as a meditation subject for a beginner;



Itarāni pana tīṇi catukkāni ettha pattajjhānassa vedanācittadhammānupassanāvasena vuttāni.

然而其它(第二第三第四)的三种四法是依(于第一四法)已得禅那者的观受、心、法(念处的毗钵舍那业处)说的。

Ñ: but the other three tetrads are [respectively] set forth as the contemplations of feeling, of [the manner of] consciousness, and of mental objects, for one who has already attained jhāna in this tetrad.



Tasmā idaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ bhāvetvā ānāpānacatutthajjhānapadaṭṭhānāya vipassanāya saha paṭisambhidāhi arahattaṃ pāpuṇitukāmena ādikammikena kulaputtena pubbe vuttanayeneva sīlaparisodhanādīni sabbakiccāni katvā vuttappakārassa ācariyassa santike pañcasandhikaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ uggahetabbaṃ.

是故欲以为四禅的足处(近因)的安般(念业处)及毗钵舍那(观)与四无碍解共而得证阿罗汉果的初学善男子,应依前(地遍的说明中)所说的方法而作遍净戒律等的一切所作,亦如(地遍的修习中)所说的亲近阿阇梨,受持五节的(安般念)业处。

Ñ: So if a clansman who is a beginner wants to develop this meditation subject, and through insight based on the fourth jhāna produced in breathing, to reach Arahantship together with the discriminations, he should first do all the work connected with the purification of virtue, etc., in the way already described, after which he should learn the meditation subject in five stages from a teacher of the kind already described.



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