比丘和樹精 Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu

 Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 222

Yo ve uppatitam kodham
ratham bhantamva varaye
tamaham sarathim brumi
rasmiggaho itaro jano.

Verse 222: He who restrains his rising anger as a skilful charioteer checks a speeding chariot, — him I call a true charioteer; other charioteers only hold the reins.

The Story of a Bhikkhu

While residing at the Aggalava stupa in the city of Alavi, the Buddha uttered Verse (222) of this book, with reference to a bhikkhu.

Once, a bhikkhu from Alavi wanted to build a monastery for himself and so he began to cut down a tree. The deva dwelling in that tree (rukkha devata) tried to stop him, saying that she and her infant son had nowhere to go. Failing to stop the bhikkhu she put her son on a branch, hoping that it would stop him from felling the tree. By then, the bhikkhu was already swinging his axe and he could not stop it in time and unintentionally cut off an arm of the child. Seeing her child being harmed in this way, the mother flew in a rage and was about to kill the bhikkhu. As she raised her hands to strike the bhikkhu, she suddenly checked herself and thought, "If I were to kill a bhikkhu, I would be killing one who observes the moral precepts (sila); in that case, I would surely suffer in niraya. Other guardian devas of the trees would be following my example and other bhikkhus would also be killed. But this bhikkhu has a master; I must go and see his master." So she went weeping to the Buddha and related all that had happened.

To her the Buddha said, "O rukkha devata! You have done well to control yourself."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 222: He who restrains his rising anger as a skilful charioteer checks a speeding chariot, — him I call a true charioteer; other charioteers only hold the reins.

At the end of the discourse the deva attained Sotapatti Fruition, and for her dwelling place she was offered a tree near the Perfumed Chamber of the Buddha. After this incident, the Buddha forbade bhikkhus to cut vegetation, such as grass, plants, shrubs and trees.

比丘和樹精


能夠抑制忿怒，如同剎住急行車輛的人，是善於調御的人，其他的人只是空執韁繩而已。 (偈222)


　　有位來自阿拉維村的比丘準備為自己興建一間茅舍，就開始砍伐一棵樹，但該樹上住著一位女天神和她的幼兒。她請求比丘不要砍倒，比丘卻不予理會。她一看無法勸阻，就把幼兒放在樹幹上，希望比丘能因此停止砍樹。但比丘已經揮動斧頭砍下去了，無法及時停下來，所以就把小孩的手臂砍斷了。女天神看見她的孩子受到如此重大的傷害，異常憤怒，當下就想殺死比丘。但當她高舉雙手，正要出手時，突然心念一轉，告訴自己：「如果我殺死比丘，就是殺害遵守戒律的人，一定會因此受苦，而且也可能立下惡例，使更多比丘受害。既然這比丘有老師，我一定要去找他的老師。」她就前去向佛陀哭訴。佛陀告訴她：「妳能夠如此冷靜控制自己真是太好了！」佛陀接著向她開示。

　　她正念思惟佛陀的說法之後，就了解佛法了。佛陀也在祇樹給孤獨園附近提供一棵樹給她居住。從此以後，佛陀告誡比丘不可砍伐樹木。


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著



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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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


17. Kodhavagga

Chapter Seventeen  Anger

第十七章 忿怒

བཅུ་བདུན་པ་ཁྲོ་བའི་ལེའུ། 


222. Yo ve uppatitaṃ kodhaṃ, 

rathaṃ bhantaṃva vāraye;

Tamahaṃ sārathiṃ brūmi, 

rasmiggāho itaro jano.


222. He who checks rising anger as a charioteer checks a rolling chariot, him I call a true charioteer. Others only hold the reins.


222.能制止生起的忿怒，如善馭者停止急行的馬車一樣，我稱他為真正的駕馭者，其他的人只是執韁繩的人而已。


222.能制止生起的忿怒，如善驭者停止急行的马车一样，我称他为真正的驾驭者，其他的人只是执缰绳的人而已。


༢༢༢༽ ཁ་ལོ་པ་ཡིས་ཤིང་རྟ་བསྒག་པ་ལྟར། །གང་ཞིག་ཁྲོ་བ་ལངས་པ་སྒོག་པར་བྱེད། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བདེན་པའི་ཁ་ལོ་པར། །རྗོད་ལ་གཞན་དག་སྲབ་སྐྱོགས་འཛིན་པ་ཙམ། །




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