Visuddhimagga XXII-6

807. Tatrāyaṃ ekāvajjanena ekavīthiyaṃ pavattamānānampi anulomagotrabhūnaṃ nānārammaṇe pavattanākāradīpikā upamā – yathā hi mahāmātikaṃ laṅghitvā paratīre patiṭṭhātukāmo puriso vegena dhāvitvā mātikāya orimatīre rukkhasākhāya bandhitvā olambitaṃ rajjuṃ vā yaṭṭhiṃ vā gahetvā ullaṅghitvā paratīraninnapoṇapabbhārakāyo hutvā paratīrassa uparibhāgaṃ patto taṃ muñcitvā vedhamāno paratīre patitvā saṇikaṃ patiṭṭhāti, evamevāyaṃ yogāvacaropi bhavayonigatiṭṭhitinivāsānaṃ paratīrabhūte nibbāne patiṭṭhātukāmo udayabbayānupassanādinā vegena dhāvitvā attabhāvarukkhasākhāya bandhitvā olambitaṃ rūparajjuṃ vā vedanādīsu aññataradaṇḍaṃ vā aniccanti vā dukkhanti vā anattāti vāti anulomāvajjanena gahetvā taṃ amuñcamānova paṭhamena anulomacittena ullaṅghitvā dutiyena paratīraninnapoṇapabbhārakāyo viya nibbānaninnapoṇapabbhāramānaso hutvā tatiyena paratīrassa uparibhāgaṃ patto viya idāni pattabbassa nibbānassa āsanno hutvā tassa cittassa nirodhena taṃ saṅkhārārammaṇaṃ muñcitvā gotrabhucittena visaṅkhāre paratīrabhūte nibbāne patati. Ekārammaṇe pana aladdhāsevanatāya vedhamāno so puriso viya na tāva suppatiṭṭhito hoti, tato maggañāṇena patiṭṭhātīti.

这里，虽然是由一转向（作用）于一（速行的）过程中转起，但为示随顺与种姓对于各别的所缘而转起，正如这样的譬喻：好像一位要跳过大水沟而站于彼岸的人，快快跑来，握住结悬于水沟此岸的树枝之上的绳子或杖而跳跃，倾向其身赴于彼岸，到达于彼岸的上部之时，便放弃它（绳或杖），仍动摇其身于彼岸，才渐渐地站定。如是这瑜伽者亦欲住于有、生、趣、（识）住、（有情）居的彼岸涅盘，以生灭随观等急速而行，以随顺转（心）而把握结悬于自身树枝上的色绳或受等的任何杖为无常苦无我，不即放弃它，以第一随顺心跳跃，以第二（随顺心）倾向其意赴于涅盘，如那人倾向其身赴于彼岸，以第三（随顺心）而成现在将近于当证的涅盘了，如那人到达于彼岸的上部，由于彼心（第三心）之灭而放弃了那自为的所缘，以种姓心而证离（有为）行的彼岸涅盘。因为对一（涅盘）所缘是未曾修习的，所以不即善住，如那人依然动摇其身，此后以道智而得善住。

Ñ(XXII,6): Here is a simile that illustrates how conformity and change-of-lineage occur with different objects though occurring in a single cognitive series with a single adverting. Suppose a man wanted to leap across a broad stream and establish himself on the opposite bank, he would run fast, and seizing a rope fastened to the branch of a tree on the stream's near bank and hanging down, or a pole, he would leap with his body tending, inclining and leaning towards the opposite bank, and when he had arrived above the opposite bank, he would let go, fall on to the opposite bank, staggering first and then steady himself there; so too this meditator, who wants to establish himself on nibbana, the bank opposite to the kinds of becoming, generation, destiny, station, and abode, runs fast by means of the contemplations of rise and fall, etc., and seizing with conformity's adverting to impermanence, pain or not-self the rope of materiality fastened to the branch of his selfhood and hanging down, or one among the poles beginning with feeling, he leaps with the first conformity consciousness without letting go and with the second he tends, inclines and leans towards nibbana, like the body that was tending, inclining and leaning towards the opposite bank; then, being with the third next to nibbana, which is now attainable, like the other's arriving above the opposite bank, he lets go that formation as object with the ceasing of that consciousness, and with the change-of-lineage consciousness he falls on to the unformed nibbana, the bank opposite; but staggering, as the man did, for lack of [previous] repetition, he is not yet properly steady on the single object. After that he is steadied by path knowledge.