Visuddhimagga VIII-209

Tatrāyaṃ āharaṇūpāyo, tena hi bhikkhunā kammaṭṭhānassa anupaṭṭhānabhāvaṃ ñatvā iti paṭisañcikkhitabbaṃ,

取回（业处之相）的方法如下：即彼比丘既知业处不现，便应如是考察：

Ñ(VIII,209): These are the means for doing it. The bhikkhu should recognize the unmanifest state of the meditation subject and consider thus:

ime assāsapassāsā nāma kattha atthi, kattha natthi.

「这出息入息在何处有？在何处无？」

Ñ: 'Where do these in-breaths and out-breaths exist? Where do they not?

Kassa vā atthi, kassa vā natthīti.

或「谁有？谁无？」

Ñ: In whom do they exist? In whom not?'.

Athevaṃ paṭisañcikkhatā ime antomātukucchiyaṃ natthi,

即如是考察：「在母胎中的（胎儿）无（出入息），

Ñ: Then, as he considers thus, he finds that they do not exist in one inside the mother's womb,

udake nimuggānaṃ natthi,

潜入水中的人无，

Ñ: or in those drowned in water,

tathā asaññībhūtānaṃ,

如是无想天人，

Ñ: or likewise in unconscious beings,

matānaṃ,

死者，

Ñ: or in the dead,

catutthajjhānasamāpannānaṃ,

第四禅的入定者，

Ñ: or in those attained to the fourth jhāna,

rūpārūpabhavasamaṅgīnaṃ,

生居于色及无色界者，

Ñ: or in those born into a fine-material or immaterial existence,

nirodhasamāpannānanti ñatvā evaṃ attanāva attā paṭicodetabbo

入灭尽定者（无出入息）」，既知如此，他便责问他自己：

Ñ: or in those attained to cessation [of perception and feeling]. So he should apostrophize himself thus:

‘‘nanu tvaṃ, paṇḍita, neva mātukucchigato,

「智者，你不是在母胎之内，

Ñ: 'You with all your wisdom are certainly not inside a mother's womb

na udake nimuggo,

不是潜水者，

Ñ: or drowned in water

na asaññībhūto,

非无想者，

Ñ: or in the unconscious existence

na mato,

非死者，

Ñ: or dead

na catutthajjhānasamāpanno,

不是入第四禅定者，

Ñ: or attained to the fourth jhāna

na rūpārūpabhavasamaṅgī,

不是生居色无色界者，

Ñ: or born into the fine-material or immaterial existence

na nirodhasamāpanno.

不是入灭尽定者，

Ñ: or attained to cessation.

Atthiyeva te assāsapassāsā,

你当然是有出息入息的，

Ñ: Those in-breaths and out-breaths are actually existent in you,

mandapaññatāya pana pariggahetuṃ na sakkosī’’ti.

只因你的智慧迟钝，故不能执持（出入息）而已」。

Ñ: only you are not able to discern them because your understanding is dull'.

Athānena pakatiphuṭṭhavasena cittaṃ ṭhapetvā manasikāro pavattetabbo.

此时他便置心于（出入息的）自然的所触（之处）而起作意。

Ñ: Then, fixing his mind on the place normally touched [by the breaths], he should proceed to give his attention to that.