受妓女保護的信徒Culakala Upasaka Vatthu

 Culakala Upasaka Vatthu




Dhammapada Verse 165

Attana hi katam pipam
attana samkilissati
attana akatam papam
attanava visujjhati
suddhi asuddhi paccattam
nanno annanam visodhaye.

Verse 165: By oneself indeed is evil done and by oneself is one defiled; by oneself is evil not done and by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity depend entirely on oneself; no one can purify another.

The Story of Culakala Upasaka

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (165) of this book, with reference to Culakala, a lay disciple.

Culakala, a lay disciple, observed the Uposatha precepts on a certain sabbath day and spent the night at the Jetavana monastery, listening to religious discourses all through the night. Early in the morning, as he was washing his face at the pond near the monastery, some thieves dropped a bundle near him. The owners seeing him with the stolen property took him for a thief and beat him hard. Fortunately some slave girls who had come to fetch water testified that they knew him and that he was not the thief. So Culakala was let off.

When the Buddha was told about it, he said to Culakala, "You have been let off not only because the slave girls said that you were not the thief but also because you did not steal and was therefore innocent. Those who do evil go to niraya, but those who do good are reborn in the deva worlds or else realize Nibbana."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 165: By oneself indeed is evil done and by oneself is one defiled; by oneself is evil not done and by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity depend entirely on oneself; no one can purify another.

At the end of the discourse Culakala the lay disciple attained Sotapatti Fruition.


受妓女保護的信徒



惡業及污染都是自己造作的，不作惡業及清淨行也是自己造作的，清不清淨全在自己，別人無能為力。(偈165)


　　有一天，信徒小迦拉到祇樹給孤獨園去守齋戒，並且徹夜聽聞佛法。第二天清早， 他回家的時候，正好有一群憤怒的人正在追捕偷走他們財物的小偷。這群小偷匆忙之際 ，把偷來的財物丟在迎面而來的小迦拉腳下。這時候追上來的人群，看見他腳下的贓物 時，怒火中燒，不明究理地誤以為他也是小偷，就抓住他加以毆打。幸運的是，有幾位正要前往附往河流取水的妓女阻止他們，說他們認識小迦拉，並且說他不是小偷。這群人才放過小迦拉。

佛陀知道這件事後，告訴小迦拉：「他們放過你，不只因為那些妓女說你不是小偷 ，也因為你真的沒偷竊，是無辜的。」


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著


Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 12 September 2020




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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa

禮敬 世尊 阿羅漢 等正覺者（三稱）

南無本師釋迦牟尼佛（三稱）


Dhammapada

《法句經》

ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། །


12. Attavagga

Chapter Twelve   The Self

第十二章 自己

བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་བདག་གི་ལེའུ།


165. Attanā hi kataṃ pāpaṃ, 

attanā saṃkilissati;

Attanā akataṃ pāpaṃ, 

attanāva visujjhati;

Suddhī asuddhi paccattaṃ, 

nāñño aññaṃ visodhaye.


165. By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.


165.作惡由己，污染亦由己，同樣，不作惡由己，清淨亦自己；淨與不淨全由自己，別人是無能為力的。


165.作恶由己，污染亦由己，同样，不作恶由己，清净亦自己；净与不净全由自己，别人是无能为力的。


༡༦༥༽ སྡིག་པ་རང་གིས་བྱས་པ་སྟེ། །རང་གིས་རང་ཉིད་སྐྱོན་ལྡན་བྱས། །སྡིག་པ་མ་བྱས་པ་རུའང་བཞག །རང་གིས་རང་ཉིད་དག་པའང་བྱས། །དག་དང་མ་དག་རང་ལ་རག །སུས་ཀྱང་གཞན་དག་འདག་མི་ནུས། །


Ratana Sutta

Discourse on the Jewels

《三寶經》


1. 任何來此聚會的眾生，無論是住在地上或天空的，但願一切眾生都快樂，願他們細心聆聽我說。

2. 因此一切眾生請諦聽，應向眾人類散播慈愛，他們日夜來供養你們，故應精勤地保護他們。

3. 無論在這世間或其他世間(這是指天界、梵天界或其它世界系)的任何財寶，或在天界的任何殊勝珠寶，都沒有和如來(佛陀)同等的。在佛陀裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

4. 寧靜的釋迦牟尼已徹悟滅盡、離欲、不死與殊勝。沒有任何東西能和法同等。在法裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

5. 至上佛所讚歎的清淨被稱為無間隔的􏰈。找不到和此􏰈同等的東西。在法裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

6. 具德者讚歎的八種人組成四雙，他們這些應供者是如來的弟子。布施給他們會帶來大果報。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

7. 以穩固的心透徹地修行，在喬達摩(佛)的教法裡不再有貪欲，他們已證應證之法。進入了不死，他們輕易地享受所證悟的寧靜。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

8. 正如深置地裡的柱子不能被四風動搖，我說，已經徹見聖諦的善士也是如此。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

9. 清楚地觀照由擁有深奧智慧者善巧教導之聖諦的人，無論他們多麼放逸，也不會有第八次投生。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

10. 對於證得知見者，有三法已被他斷除，即身見、疑與如果他有的戒禁取見。他已完全解脫了四惡道，絕對不會造六種大惡。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

11. 無論他透􏰉過身或口或意所造的任何惡業，他都不會覆藏它，所謂見道者絕不會這麼做。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。 以此真實語願得安樂。

12. 佛陀所教、導向涅槃、帶來最高等利益的至上法，就像夏天第一個月的樹林盛開著花。在佛陀裡有此殊勝寶。 以此真實語願得安樂。

13. 至上者、知至上者、給予至上者、帶來至上者教導無比至上法。在佛陀裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

14. 舊的已滅，新的不再生起，他們的心不執著未來生，有的種子已滅，他們不再生起對生命的慾望。那些智者像燈(滅那樣)熄滅。在僧團裡有此殊勝寶。以此真實語願得安樂。

15. 任何來此聚會的眾生，無論是住在地上或天空的，禮敬 人天尊敬的如來佛，願得安樂。

16. 任何來此聚會的眾生，無論是住在地上或天空的，禮敬 人天尊敬的如來法，願得安樂。

17. 任何來此聚會的眾生，無論是住在地上或天空的，禮敬 人天尊敬的如來僧，願得安樂。


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