Visuddhimagga XIII-26

Evaṃ karonto hi seyyathāpi nāma balavā puriso kūṭāgārakaṇṇikatthāya mahārukkhaṃ chindanto sākhāpalāsacchedanamatteneva pharasudhārāya vipannāya mahārukkhaṃ chindituṃ asakkontopi dhuranikkhepaṃ akatvāva kammārasālaṃ gantvā tikhiṇaṃ pharasuṃ kārāpetvā puna āgantvā chindeyya, puna vipannāya ca punapi tatheva kāretvā chindeyya.

譬如强人，为了要取造宫殿所需的栋梁而伐大树，只砍下枝叶，便坏了斧口的锋刃，不能再伐大树，但他并不放弃工作，跑到铁匠的屋内，把斧头整理锐利之后，回来再伐；若再坏了，亦同样的再修再伐。

Ñ(XIII,26): Just as when a strong man is felling a big tree for the purpose of making the peak of a gable, but is unable to fell the big tree with an axe blade blunted by lopping the branches and foliage, still he does not give up the task; on the contrary, he goes to a smithy and has his axe sharpened, after which he returns and continues chopping the tree; and when the axe again gets blunt, he does as before and continues chopping it;

So evaṃ chindanto chinnassa chinnassa puna chetabbābhāvato acchinnassa ca chedanato nacirasseva mahārukkhaṃ pāteyya,

他这样伐时，已伐的部分不必再伐，只伐其未伐的部分，不久之后，便伐倒大树了。

Ñ: and as he goes on chopping it in this way, the tree falls at length, because each time there is no need to chop again what has already been chopped and what has not yet been chopped gets chopped;

evamevaṃ pādakajjhānā vuṭṭhāya pubbe āvajjitaṃ anāvajjitvā paṭisandhimeva āvajjanto nacirasseva paṭisandhiṃ ugghāṭetvā cutikkhaṇe pavattitanāmarūpaṃ ārammaṇaṃ kareyyāti.

同样的，这样努力的比丘，从基础禅出定，以前已能忆念的不必再念，只忆念结生，不久之后，便能离去结生，以前生的死的剎那所行的名色为所缘了。

Ñ: so too, when he emerges from the basic jhāna, instead of adverting to what he has already adverted to, he should advert only to the rebirth-linking, and at length he removes the rebirth-linking and makes the mentality-materiality that occurred at the death moment his object.

Kaṭṭhaphālakakesohārakādīhipi ayamattho dīpetabbo.

此义亦可用樵夫及理发师的譬喻来说明。

Ñ: And this meaning should also be illustrated by means of the wood cutter and the hair-cutter as well.