Visuddhimagga XXI-32

751. Bhayatupaṭṭhānañāṇaṃ pana bhāyati na bhāyatīti? Na bhāyati. Tañhi atītā saṅkhārā niruddhā, paccuppannā nirujjhanti, anāgatā nirujjhissantīti tīraṇamattameva hoti. Tasmā yathā nāma cakkhumā puriso nagaradvāre tisso aṅgārakāsuyo olokayamāno sayaṃ na bhāyati, kevalaṃ hissa ‘‘ye ye ettha nipatissanti, sabbe anappakaṃ dukkhamanubhavissantī’’ti tīraṇamattameva hoti. Yathā vā pana cakkhumā puriso khadirasūlaṃ ayosūlaṃ suvaṇṇasūlanti paṭipāṭiyā ṭhapitaṃ sūlattayaṃ olokayamāno sayaṃ na bhāyati, kevalaṃ hissa ‘‘ye ye imesu sūlesu nipatissanti, sabbe anappakaṃ dukkhamanubhavissantī’’ti tīraṇamattameva hoti, evameva bhayatupaṭṭhānañāṇaṃ sayaṃ na bhāyati, kevalaṃ hissa aṅgārakāsuttayasadisesu, sūlattayasadisesu ca tīsu bhavesu ‘‘atītā saṅkhārā niruddhā, paccuppannā nirujjhanti, anāgatā nirujjhissantī’’ti tīraṇamattameva hoti. 然而这怖畏现起智自己是怖畏或非怖畏？这是非怖畏的，因为这只是审观「过去的诸行已灭，现在的（诸行）正灭，未来的（诸行）当灭」，所以如明眼者的看见于城门的三个火坑，他自己则不怖畏；因为他只是审知「那些落于这里面的人，备受许多的苦痛」。亦如明眼者看见佉地罗（硬木所制）的尖桩，铁的尖桩，金的尖桩的三种尖桩次第的排列的时候，他自己并不怖畏，因为他唯审知「那些落于这些尖桩之上的人，备受许多的痛苦」。如是而此怖畏现起智自己是不怖畏的。因为这只是审观于如三火坑及如三个尖桩的三有中：「过去的诸行已灭，现在的（诸行）正灭，未来的（诸行）当灭」。

Ñ(XXI,32): But does the knowledge of appearance as terror [itself] fear or does it not fear? It does not fear. For it is simply the mere judgement that past formations have ceased, present ones are ceasing, and future ones will cease. Just as a man with eyes looking at three charcoal pits at a city gate is not himself afraid, since he only forms the mere judgement that all who fall into them will suffer no little pain;—or just as when a man with eyes looks at three spikes set in a row, an acacia spike, an iron spike, and a gold spike, he is not himself afraid, since he only forms the mere judgement that all who fall on these spikes will suffer no little pain;—so too the knowledge of appearance as terror does not itself fear; it only forms the mere judgement that in the three kinds of becoming, which resemble the three charcoal pits and the three spikes, past formations have ceased, present ones are ceasing, and future ones will cease.