佛陀和一位飢餓的人 Eka Upasaka Vatthu

 Eka Upasaka Vatthu 


Dhammapada Verse 203

Jighacchaparama roga
sankharaparama dukha
etam natva yathabhutam
nibbanam paramam sukham.

Verse 203: Hunger is the greatest ailment, khandhas are the greatest ill. The wise, knowing them as they really are, realize Nibbana, the greatest bliss.

The Story of a Lay-Disciple

The Buddha uttered Verse (203) of this book at the village of Alavi, with reference to a lay-disciple.

One day, the Buddha saw in his vision that a poor man would attain Sotapatti Fruition at the village of Alavi. So he went to that village, which was thirty yojanas away from Savatthi. It so happened that on that very day the man lost his ox. So, he had to be looking for the ox. Meanwhile, alms-food was being offered to the Buddha and his disciples in a house in the village of Alavi. After the meal, people got ready to listen to the Buddha's discourse; but the Buddha waited for the young man. Finally, having found his ox, the man came running to the house where the Buddha was. The man was tired and hungry, so the Buddha directed the donors to offer food to him. Only when the man had been fed, the Buddha gave a discourse, expounding the Dhamma step by step and finally leading to the Four Noble Truths. The lay-disciple attained Sotapatti Fruition at the end of the discourse.

Afterwards, the Buddha and his disciples returned to the Jetavana monastery. On the way, the bhikkhus remarked that it was so surprising that the Buddha should have directed those people to feed the young man before he gave the discourse. On hearing their remarks, the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! What you said is true, but you do not understand that I have come here, all this distance of thirty yojanas, because I knew that he was in a fitting condition to take in the Dhamma. If he were feeling very hungry, the pangs of hunger might have prevented him from taking in the Dhamma fully. That man had been out looking for his ox the whole morning, and was very tired and also very hungry. Bhikkhus, after all, there is no ailment which is so difficult to bear as hunger."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 203: Hunger is the greatest ailment, khandhas are the greatest ill. The wise, knowing them as they really are, realize Nibbana, the greatest bliss.

佛陀和一位飢餓的人


飢餓是最大的疾病(註 1)，五蘊是最大的苦痛，智者如實知見這種道理，而證得究竟喜悅的涅槃。 (偈 203)


　　有一天，佛陀透過神通，知道阿拉維村裡的一位窮人證初果的機緣已經成熟了，就前往該村。但當天，這窮人出去尋找走失的公牛。這時候，村子的人已經開始供養佛陀和眾多比丘，佛陀進食後，村人準備聽佛陀說法，但佛陀卻要等那窮人。窮人終於找到他的公牛，就跑著回來向佛陀禮敬。但他又疲累又飢餓，佛陀知道還有食物，所以就請村民先拿食物給窮人吃(註 2)。等到窮人吃完飯後，佛陀才一步一步，由淺入深地說法，一直說到四聖諦。聽完佛陀的說法後，這窮人證得初果。

　　後來，佛陀和眾多比丘回祇樹給孤獨園。路上，比丘們十分訝異於佛陀會要求村民先給那窮人吃飯，然後才開示說法。佛陀聽見他們的話後，便告訴他們：「比丘們！我來阿拉維村的唯一目的，就是要向那窮人說法，因為我知道他具備有正確明白佛法的能力。如果他飢餓難耐，飢餓的痛苦可能障礙他理解佛法，他一早上都在找走失的公牛，所以非常疲累，非常飢餓。比丘們！畢竟，沒有任何疾病比飢餓更難以忍受。」


註１：一般的疾病只要有適當的藥就可以治癒，但飢餓卻要天天加以治療。

註２：本故事說明佛陀不只關心眾生的精神心靈，也及於物資方面的考量。


‧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 October 2020



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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། །


15. Sukhavaggo

Chapter Fifteen     Happiness

第十五章 安樂

བཅོ་ལྔ་པ་བདེ་བའི་ལེའུ། 


203. Jighacchāparamā rogā, 

saṅkhāraparamā dukhā;

Etaṃ ñatvā yathābhūtaṃ, 

nibbānaṃ paramaṃ sukhaṃ.


203. Hunger is the worst disease, conditioned things the worst suffering. Knowing this as it really is, the wise realize Nibbana, the highest bliss.


203.飢餓是最大的疾病，五取蘊是最大的苦惱；智者如實洞悉它們，得證涅槃至樂。


203.饥饿是最大的疾病，五取蕴是最大的苦恼；智者如实洞悉它们，得证涅槃至乐。


༢༠༣༽ ནད་ཀྱི་ཐུ་ཤོས་བཀྲེས་པ་ཡིན། །སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐུ་ཤོས་སྲིད་པ་སྟེ། །མཁས་པས་འདི་ཡི་རང་བཞིན་ནི། །མཁྱེན་ཅིང་མྱང་འདས་མཆོག་བདེར་རྟོགས། །


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您可以選擇您的語言：巴利語、英語、廣東話、普通話、藏語

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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此是免費贈送的法寶。

འབུལ་བ་འདི་རིན་མེད་ཡིན། 


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