手執掃帚的比丘 Sammajjanatthera Vatthu

 Sammajjanatthera Vatthu 




Dhammapada Verse 172

Yo ca pubbe pamajjit va
pacchi so nappamajjati
so'mam lokam pabhaseti
abbha muttova candima.

Verse 172: He, who has been formerly unmindful, but is mindful later on, lights up the world with the light of Magga Insight as does the moon freed from clouds.


The Story of Thera Sammajjana

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (172) of this book, with reference to Thera Sammajjana.

Thera Sammajjana spent most of his time sweeping the precincts of the monastery. At that time, Thera Revata was also staying at the monastery; unlike Sammajjana, Thera Revata spent most of his time in meditation or deep mental absorption. Seeing Thera Revata's behaviour, Thera Sammajjana thought the other thera was just idling away his time. Thus, one day Sammajjana went to Thera Revata and said to him, "You are being very lazy, living on the food offered out of faith and generosity; don't you think you should sometimes sweep the floors or the compound or some other place?" To him, Thera Revata replied, "Friend, a bhikkhu should not spend all his times sweeping. He should sweep early in the morning, then go out on the alms-round. After the meal, contemplating his body he should try to perceive the true nature of the aggregates, or else, recite the texts until nightfall. Then he can do the sweeping again if he so wishes." Thera Sammajjana strictly followed the advice given by Thera Revata and soon attained arahatship.

Other bhikkhus noticed some rubbish piling up in the compound and they asked Sammajjana why he was not sweeping as much as he used to, and he replied, "When I was not mindful, I was all the time sweeping; but now I am no longer unmindful." When the bhikkhus heard his reply they were sceptical; so they went to the Buddha and said, "Venerable Sir! Thera Sammajjana falsely claims himself to be an arahat; he is telling lies." To them the Buddha said, "Sammajjana has indeed attained arahatship; he is telling the truth."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 172: He, who has been formerly unmindful, but is mindful later on, lights up the world with the light of Magga Insight as does the moon freed from clouds.

手執掃帚的比丘


人若不放逸,則自淨其意,並照耀世間,一如明月無雲翳。 (偈 172)


   沙姆迦尼尊者大部分的時間都在打掃,住在同一精舍的離瓦塔尊者反而大部分的時間都在禪修。沙姆迦尼尊者認為離瓦塔尊者只是在浪費時光。

  有一天,沙姆迦尼尊者告訴離瓦塔尊者:

  「你很懶惰,只知依靠信徒出於虔誠和慷慨所供養的食物。難道你不覺得有時候也該打掃地板、房屋或其它地方嗎?」

  離瓦塔尊者回答他:「朋友!比丘不應該所有的時間都在打掃。應該在清晨時打掃,然後外出化緣,進食之後,觀身,察覺生命的真相,或者,背誦經文直到晚上,這時候,如果願意的話,可以再打掃一次。」沙姆迦尼尊者嚴格遵照離瓦塔尊者的話去做,不久就證得阿羅漢果。

   其他比丘發現沙姆加尼尊者不再把大部分時間在打掃,就問他原因。

  他說:「當我正念尚未具足時,我經常打掃,但現在我已經正念現前了。」

  其他比丘對他的話存有懷疑,就去請教佛陀:「世尊!沙姆迦尼尊者宣稱他是阿羅漢了。」佛陀告訴他們,沙姆迦尼尊者真的已經是阿羅漢了。


‧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། 18 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། །


13. Lokavagga

Chapter Thirteen   The World

第十三章  世間

བཅུ་གསུམ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ལེའུ།


172. Yo ca pubbe pamajjitvā, 

pacchā so nappamajjati;

Somaṃ lokaṃ pabhāseti, 

abbhā muttova candimā.


172. He who having been heedless is heedless no more, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds.


172.以前放逸、後來不放逸的人,不久必能(以道智成就)照耀世間,如無雲遮蓋的月亮一樣。


172.以前放逸、后来不放逸的人,不久必能(以道智成就)照耀世间,如无云遮盖的月亮一样。


༡༧༢༽ གང་ཞིག་སྔོན་ཆད་བག་མེད་ཀྱང་། །ད་ལྟ་བག་དང་ལྡན་པས་ནི། །འཇིག་རྟེན་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་སྟེ། །ཟླ་བ་སྤྲིན་ལས་གྲོལ་བ་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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