死得不是時候的信徒 Mahakala Upasaka Vatthu

Mahakala Upasaka Vatthu

Dhammapada Verse 161

Attana hi katam papam
attajam attasambhavam
abhimatthati dummedham
vajiramva'smamayam manim.

Verse 161: The evil done by oneself, arising in oneself, and caused by oneself, destroys the foolish one, just as a diamond grinds the rock from which it is formed.

The Story of Mahakala Upasaka

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (161) of this book, with reference to Mahakala, a lay disciple.

On a certain sabbath day, Mahakala, a lay disciple, went to the Jetavana monastery. On that day, he kept the sabbath by observing the eight moral precepts (Uposatha sila) and listened to the discourses on the Dhamma throughout the night. It so happened that on that same night, some thieves broke into a house; and the owners on waking up went after the thieves. The thieves ran away in all directions. Some ran in the direction of the monastery. It was then nearing dawn, and Mahakala was washing his face at the pond close to the monastery. The thieves dropped their stolen property in front of Mahakala and ran on. When the owners arrived, they saw Mahakala with the stolen property. Taking him for one of the thieves they shouted at him, threatened him and beat him hard. Mahakala died on the spot. Early in the morning, when some young bhikkhus and samaneras from the monastery came to the pond to fetch water, they saw the dead body and recognize it.

On their return to the monastery, they reported what they had seen and said to the Buddha, "Venerable Sir! The lay disciple who was at this monastery listening to the religious discourses all through the night has met with a death which he does not deserve." To them the Buddha replied, "Bhikkhus! If you judge from the good deeds he has done in this existence, he has indeed met with a death he does not deserve. But the fact is that he has only paid for the evil he had done in a past existence. In one of his previous existences, when he was a courtier in the palace of the king, he fell in love with another man's wife and had beaten her husband to death. Thus, evil deeds surely get one into trouble; they even lead one to the four apayas."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 161: The evil done by oneself, arising in oneself, and caused by oneself, destroys the foolish one, just as a diamond grinds the rock from which it is formed.


死得不是時候的信徒


惡業實在是自己做的，從自己的心中生起；惡業摧毀愚癡的人，一如金剛磨損普通的珠寶。 (偈 161)

　　在一個神聖的日子裡，摩訶迦羅到祇樹給孤獨園去參加齋戒，並且整夜聽聞佛法。 當天夜晚，幾位小偷闖入某戶人家，那一家人醒來後，急忙追趕四處逃竄的小偷。有些小偷往精舍方向跑去，這時候，天快要亮了，摩訶迦羅也正要到精舍附近的池塘去洗臉 。這些小偷於是把偷來的東西丟在摩訶迦羅面前，然後逃之夭夭。被偷的人家這時候正好追上來，而看見摩訶迦羅和贓物，他們誤認他也是小偷，便不分青紅皂白地抓住他痛打一番，摩訶迦羅當場不幸被打死。天亮時，到池塘來取水的比丘們發現他的屍體。

　　這些比丘就回精舍向佛陀報告：「世尊！整夜在精舍聽聞佛法的在家信徒摩訶迦羅死於非命。」佛陀回答他們：「比丘們！如果你們從他今生所作的善行來判斷的話，那麼他確實死於非命。但事實上，他是在償還過去某一世的惡業而已。那時候，他愛上一 位有夫之婦，而把婦人的丈夫打死。因此，惡有惡報，甚至使人墮落地獄。」

‧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། 8 September 2020





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།


161. Attanā hi kataṃ pāpaṃ, 

attajaṃ attasambhavaṃ;

Abhimatthati dummedhaṃ, 

vajiraṃ vasmamayaṃ maṇiṃ.


161. The evil a witless man does by himself, born of himself and produced by himself, grinds him as a diamond grinds a hard gem.


161.愚者被自己所作的、生於內心的、緣由自己的惡業所摧毀，就像寶石裡的鑽石，反過來研磨寶石一樣。


161.愚者被自己所作的、生于内心的、缘由自己的恶业所摧毁，就像宝石里的钻石，反过来研磨宝石一样。 


༡༦༡༽ བླུན་པོ་རང་གིས་སྡིག་པ་བྱེད། །རང་ལས་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་རང་གིས་བསྐྱེད། །རང་ཉིད་འཐག་པར་བྱེད་པ་སྟེ། །ཕ་ལམ་གྱིས་ནི་ནོར་བུ་བཞིན། །


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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