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Atula Upasaka Vatthu


Dhammapada Verses 227, 228, 229 and 230

Poranametam Atula
netam ajjatanamiva
nindanti tunhimasinam
nindanti bahubhaninam
mitabhanimpi nindanti
natthi loke anindito.

Na cahu na ca bhavissati
na cetarahi vijjati
ekantam nindito poso
ekantam va pasamsito.

Yam ce vinnu pasamsanti
anuvicca suve suve
acchiddavuttim medhavim
pannasilasamahitam.

Nikkham jambonadasseva1
ko tam ninditumarahati
devapi nam pasamsanti
brahmunapi pasamsito.

Verse 227: It is not new, O Atula! It has always been done from ancient times. They blame one who is silent, they blame one who speaks much, they blame one who speaks little. There is no one in this world who is not blamed.

Verse 228: There never has been, there never will be, nor is there now, anyone who is always blamed or always praised.

Verses 229 - 230: If the wise praise him day after day, knowing him to be truly faultless, wise and endowed with knowledge and virtue, who would blame him, who is like a nikkha of pure gold? The devas praise him; he is praised even by the great Brahmas.

1. nikkham jambonadasseva: like a nikkha of jambonada gold. Jambonada gold which comes from Jambu river is the finest gold. A nikkha can be a weight-unit of gold, an ornament or a coin.

The Story of Atula the Lay-disciple

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (227) to (230) of this book, with reference to Atula and his companions.

Once, Atula and his companions numbering five hundred, wishing to listen to words of dhamma, went to Thera Revata. The thera however was very aloof like a lion; he did not say anything to them. They were very much dissatisfied and so they went to Thera Sariputta. When Thera Sariputta learned why they had come, he expounded exhaustively on the Abhidhamma. He also was not to their liking, and they grumbled that Thera Sariputta had been too lengthy and too profound. Next, Atula and his party approached Thera Ananda. Thera Ananda expounded to them the bare essentials of the Dhamma. This time, they remarked that Thera Ananda had been too brief and too sketchy. Finally they came to the Buddha and said to him, "Venerable Sir, we have come to listen to your teaching. We have been to other teachers before we come here, but we are not satisfied with any of them. Thera Revata did not bother to teach us and he just kept silent; Thera Sariputta was too exhaustive and the Dhamma he taught us was too difficult for us. As for Thera Ananda, he was too brief and too sketchy. We do not like any of their discourses."

To them the Buddha said, "My disciples, blaming others is not something new. There is no one in this world who is never blamed; people would blame even a king, or even a Buddha. To be blamed or to be praised by a fool is of no consequence; one is truly blamed only when he is blamed by a wise man, and truly praised only when praised by a wise man."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 227: It is not new, O Atula! It has always been done from ancient times. They blame one who is silent, they blame one who speaks much, they blame one who speaks little. There is no one in this world who is not blamed.

 

Verse 228: There never has been, there never will be, nor is there now, anyone who is always blamed or always praised.

 

Verses 229 - 230: If the wise praise him day after day, knowing him to be truly faultless, wise and endowed with knowledge and virtue, who would blame him, who is like a nikkha of pure gold? The devas praise him; he is praised even by the great Brahmas.

At the end of the discourse Atula and his companions attained Sotapatti Fruition.

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阿多羅！這不是現在才有的現象，自古以來就是如此：沉默不語的人受誹謗，多話的人受誹謗，寡言的人也受誹謗，世間人對任何人都誹謗。(偈 227)


不論過去、未來或現在，沒有人永遠受人讚嘆，也沒有人永遠受人誹謗。(偈 228)


如果行為無瑕疵，智慧與德行兼備，如閻浮金(註)一樣有價值， 連智者都日夜加以讚嘆的人，誰能誹謗呢？甚至諸天與大梵天也讚譽這種人。(偈 229/230)


　　阿多拉和他的同伴想要聞法。他們先去見離婆多尊者，但尊者非常冷漠，一句話也沒說。他們失望之餘，就去找舍利弗尊者，舍利弗明白他們的目的後，向他們說法，但內容卻非常深奧，他們也不喜歡，反而嘀咕的說，舍利弗尊者的說法太冗長、太深奧了。他們又去找阿難尊者。阿難尊者對他們說最基本的佛法，他們又說，阿難尊者說的法太過簡潔、籠統了。最後，他們去見佛陀：

　　「世尊，我們來找你，是希望聽你說法。來這裡之前，我們已經聽過幾位尊者說的法了，但都不滿意。離婆多尊者甚至不理睬我們，舍利弗尊者說的法太詳盡太深奧了，阿難尊者的又太簡單太籠統了。我們都不喜歡他們說的法。」

　　佛陀回答他們：「弟子們！一般人容易指責別人，這世界上沒有人不被譴責。人們甚至批評國王，即使是佛陀，也被人指責。被心胸狹窄的人責罵不要緊，只有智者的譴責才算是真正的譴責，也只有智者的稱讚才算是真正的稱讚。」



註：「閻浮金」：來自閻浮河 (Jambu) 的金，是品質最佳的金。


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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3)


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། 


227. Porāṇametaṃ atula, 

netaṃ ajjatanāmiva;

Nindanti tuṇhimāsīnaṃ, 

nindanti bahubhāṇinaṃ;

Mitabhāṇimpi nindanti, 

natthi loke anindito.

228. Na cāhu na ca bhavissati, 

na cetarahi vijjati;

Ekantaṃ nindito poso, 

ekantaṃ vā pasaṃsito.

229. Yaṃ ce viññū pasaṃsanti, 

anuvicca suve suve;

Acchiddavuttiṃ medhāviṃ,

paññāsīlasamāhitaṃ.

230. Nikkhaṃ jambonadasseva, 

ko taṃ ninditumarahati;

Devāpi naṃ pasaṃsanti, 

brahmunāpi pasaṃsito.


227. O Atula! Indeed, this is an ancient practice, not one only of today: they blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.

228. There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a person who is wholly blamed or wholly praised.

229. But the man whom the wise praise, after observing him day after day, is one of flawless character, wise, and endowed with knowledge and virtue.

230. Who can blame such a one, as worthy as a coin of refined gold? Even the gods praise him; by Brahma, too, is he praised.


227.阿多羅[1]！此非新事，古來如此：人們會指責沉默者，會指責多言者，亦會指責少言者﹔不受別人指責的人，在世間實找不到啊！

【註釋】

[1]阿多羅（Atula）：一名帶同數百人前來向佛陀請教和投訴的人。

228.不斷受責備的人、或不斷受稱讚的人，過去沒有，現在沒有，將來也不會有。

229.一個真無缺失、博學和德智俱備的人，若為智者所知，必經常讚不絕口的。

230.他品德像塊純金，試問誰可責難呢？不但天神、甚至梵天也會稱讚他的。


227.阿多罗[1]！此非新事，古来如此：人们会指责沉默者，会指责多言者，亦会指责少言者﹔不受别人指责的人，在世间实找不到啊！

【注释】

[1]阿多罗（Atula）：一名带同数百人前来向佛陀请教和投诉的人。

228.不断受责备的人、或不断受称赞的人，过去没有，现在没有，将来也不会有。

229.一个真无缺失、博学和德智具备的人，若为智者所知，必经常赞不绝口的。

230.他品德像块纯金，试问谁可责难呢？不但天神、甚至梵天也会称赞他的。


༢༢༧༽ སྨྲ་བ་མེད་ལ་སྐྱོན་རྗོད་བྱེད། །མང་དུ་སྨྲ་བར་སྐྱོན་རྗོད་བྱེད། །རན་པར་སྨྲ་བའང་སྐྱོན་རྗོད་བྱེད། །སྐྱོན་རྗོད་མ་ཕོག་མཁན་གྱི་མི། །འཇིག་རྟེན་འདི་ན་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན། །དེང་སང་ཙམ་མིན་སྔོན་ནས་འདུག །

༢༢༨༽ མཐའ་གཅིག་ཏུ་ནི་བསྟོད་པ་དང་། །མཐའ་གཅིག་ཏུ་ནི་སྨད་པའི་མི། །མ་བྱུང་མི་འབྱུང་ད་ལྟ་མེད། །

༢༢༩༽ འོན་ཀྱང་མཁས་པ་དག་གིས་ནི། །ཉིན་མཚན་བརྟག་ཅིང་དཔྱད་བྱས་ཏེ། །བསྔགས་པར་མཛད་པ་སྐྱོན་མེད་ཡིན། །མཁས་ཤིང་བློ་ལྡན་ཆོས་པའང་ཡིན། །

༢༣༠༽སྦྱངས་པའི་གསེར་གྱི་དོང་ཙེ་བཞིན། །དེ་ལ་སྨད་པ་སུ་ཞིག་ཡོད། །ལྷ་དང་ཚངས་པ་ཡིས་ཀྱང་བསྟོད། །




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ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་པཱ་ལཱའི་སྐད་དམ་དབྱིན་སྐད་དམ་ཧོང་ཀོང་གི་སྐད་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དང་བོད་སྐད་ལྔ་པོ་དེ་ལ་གང་རུང་འདམ་ཆོག


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