Visuddhimagga XVI-23

532. Kathaṃ lakkhaṇādippabhedato?

（三）怎样「以相等的区别」？

Ñ(XVI,23): 3. How as to division by character, et cetera?

Ettha hi bādhanalakkhaṇaṃ dukkhasaccaṃ, santāpanarasaṃ, pavattipaccupaṭṭhānaṃ.

于此四谛之中，苦谛，有苦[PTS 496]难的特相，有热恼的作用（味），以继续进行为现状（现起）。

Ñ: The truth of suffering has the characteristic of afflicting. [496] Its function is to burn. It is manifested as occurrence (as the course of an existence).

Pabhavalakkhaṇaṃ samudayasaccaṃ, anupacchedakaraṇarasaṃ, palibodhapaccupaṭṭhānaṃ.

集谛，有生起的特相，有不断绝的作用，以障碍为现状。

Ñ: The truth of origin has the characteristic of producing. Its function is to prevent interruption. It is manifested as impediment.

Santilakkhaṇaṃ nirodhasaccaṃ, accutirasaṃ, animittapaccupaṭṭhānaṃ.

灭谛，有寂静的特相，有不死的作用，以无相为现状。

Ñ: The truth of cessation has the characteristic of peace. Its function is not to die. It is manifested as the signless.

Niyyānalakkhaṇaṃ maggasaccaṃ, kilesappahānarasaṃ, vuṭṭhānapaccupaṭṭhānaṃ.

道谛，有出离的特相，有断烦恼的作用，（从烦恼）出来为现状。

Ñ: The truth of the path has the characteristic of an outlet. Its function is to abandon defilements. It is manifested as emergence.

Apica pavattipavattananivattinivattanalakkhaṇāni paṭipāṭiyā.

又四谛次第的以发生（苦），使其发生（集），停止（灭），使其停止（道）为特相；

Ñ: They have, moreover, the respective characteristics of occurrence, making occur, non-occurrence, and making not occur,

Tathā saṅkhatataṇhā asaṅkhatadassanalakkhaṇāni cāti evamettha lakkhaṇādippabhedato vinicchayo veditabbo.

亦次第的以有为（苦）、渴爱（集）、无为（灭）、（智）见（道）为特相。如是当以相等的区别而知抉择。

Ñ: and likewise the characteristics of the formed, craving, the unformed, and seeing. This is how the exposition should be understood here as to characteristic, et cetera.