屠夫和兒子的命運 Goghatakaputta Vatthu

Goghatakaputta Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verses 235, 236, 237 and 238

Pandupalasova danisi
yamapurisapi ca te upatthita
uyyogamukhe1 ca titthasi
patheyyampi ca te na vijjati.

So karohi dipamattano
khippam vayama pandito bhava
niddhantamalo anangano
dibbam ariyabhumim2 upehisi.

Upanitavayo ca danisi
sampayatosi yamassa santikam
vase te natthi antara
patheyyampi ca te na vijjati.

So karohi dipamattano
khippam vayama pandito bhava
niddhantamalo anangano
na punam jatijaram upehisi.

Verse 235: You are now like a withered leaf; the messengers of death are near you; you are about to set out on a long journey; (yet), you have no provisions (for the journey).

Verse 236: Make a firm support for yourself; hasten to strive hard, and be wise. Having removed impurities and being free from moral defilements you shall enter the abodes of the Ariyas (i.e., Suddhavasa brahma realm).

Verse 237: Now you are of advanced age; you are going to the presence of the King of Death and you cannot stop on the way; (yet) you have no provisions (for the journey).

Verse 238: Make a firm support for yourself; hasten to strive hard, and be wise. Having removed impurities and being free from moral defilements you will no longer be subject to rebirth and decay.

1. uyyogamukhe: lit., about to set out on a long journey, i.e., the journey of samsara.

2. dibbam ariyabhumim: the celestial plane of the ariyas. The reference is to the Suddhavasa brahma realm or the Pure Abodes which are exclusively inhabited by tbe anagamis (the Never-Returners).

The Story of the Son of a Butcher

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (235) to (238) of this book, with reference to the son of a butcher.

Once in Savatthi, there was a man who had been a butcher for fifty-five years. All this time, he slaughtered cattle and sold the meat and everyday he took meat curry with his rice. One day, he left some meat with his wife to cook it for the family, and then left for the riverside to have his bath. During his absence, a friend coaxed his wife to sell that particular piece of meat to him. As a result, there was no meat curry for the butcher on that day. But as the butcher never took his meal without meat curry, he hurriedly went to the back of his house, where an ox was standing. He promptly cut off the tongue of the ox and baked it over a fire. When having his meal, the butcher had a bite of the tongue of the ox, but as he did so his own tongue was cut off and fell into his plate of rice. Thus the ox and the butcher were in the same plight, both of them having had their tongues cut off. The butcher was in great pain and agony, and he went about agitatedly on his knees, with blood dripping profusely from his mouth. Then the butcher died and was reborn in the Avici Niraya.

The butcher's wife was greatly disturbed and she was anxious for her son to get away to some other place, lest this evil should befall him too. So she sent her son to Taxila. At Taxila, he acquired the art of a goldsmith. Later, he married the daughter of his master and some children were born to them. When their sons came of age he returned to Savatthi. The sons were endowed with faith in the Buddha and were religiously inclined. They were anxious about their father, who had grown old with no thought of religion or of his future existence. So one day, they invited the Buddha and the bhikkhus to their house for alms-food. After the meal they said to the Buddha, "Venerable Sir, we are making this offering to you today on behalf of our father. Kindly give a discourse specially for him." So the Buddha said, "My disciple! You are getting old; but you have not made any provisions of merit for your journey to the next existence; you should now find a support for yourself."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 235: You are now like a withered leaf; the messengers of death are near you; you are about to set out on a long journey; (yet), you have no provisions (for the journey).

 

Verse 236: Make a firm support for yourself; hasten to strive hard, and be wise. Having removed impurities and being free from moral defilements you shall enter the abodes of the Ariyas (i.e., Suddhavasa brahma realm).

 

Verse 237: Now you are of advanced age; you are going to the presence of the King of Death and you cannot stop on the way; (yet) you have no provisions (for the journey).

 

Verse 238: Make a firm support for yourself; hasten to strive hard, and be wise. Having removed impurities and being free from moral defilements you will no longer be subject to rebirth and decay.

At the end of the discourse the father of the donors of alms-food (i.e., the son of the butcher) attained Anagami Fruition.

屠夫和兒子的命運


此刻，你就像枯萎的樹葉，死神的使者已經在你的身邊，你即將展開漫長的死亡之旅，卻尚未準備任何的資糧。

為自己建造安全的島吧！儘早精進修行，成為智者吧！若能拂除塵垢與諸煩惱，就能證得聖者的境界。

你的生命即將結束，開始步向無法中途停止的死亡之旅，但你卻尚未備妥任何的資糧。

為自己建造安全的島吧！儘早精進修行，成為智者吧！若能拂除塵垢與諸煩惱，就不再生死輪迴了。 (偈235-238)


　　舍衛城中有位從事屠宰工作很多年的屠夫。他喜歡吃牛肉，堅持每天的飲食必須有咖哩牛肉飯。有一天，他在前往河中沐浴之前，把要煮給一家人吃的肉擺在一旁。當他離開家後，他的一位朋友勸他妻子把肉賣掉，所以當天就沒有咖哩牛肉飯了。他非常生氣，就跑到後院去，割下一隻公牛的舌頭，加以烘焙之後才坐下來吃飯。

　　吃飯時，他想要咬一口牛舌頭，但卻咬斷自己的舌頭，而和那隻公牛陷入相同的困境。大量的血從他的口中流出來，使他極度痛苦，又異常憤怒，終於死於非命，並且往生到悲慘的境界。他的妻子對他的遭遇非常驚嚇，便勸他的兒子趕快離開家鄉，到遙遠的地方去，免得這種惡運變成詛咒，降臨到他身上。她的兒子就到怛剎尸羅去當金匠。後來，他與老闆的女兒結婚，也養育了幾個孩子。等孩子都長大後，他才落葉歸根，返回舍衛城。他的兒子們都是佛陀的虔誠信徒，所以非常擔心他們的父親，因為他的一生中沒有做過任何的善行。

　　有一天，他們邀請佛陀和眾多比丘前來家中應供。供養之後，他們告訴佛陀：「尊者，我們是以父親的名義供養佛陀和比丘的。請您慈悲的向他說法，使他了解佛法。」

　　佛陀就向他們的父親開示：「你漸漸老了，你的身體像枯萎的葉子，現在，你必須為未來的生命做準備，建立奉獻和修行的生命方式，做個有智慧的人吧！」

　　察覺到世間生命無常，並且正念現前思考佛陀的告誡後，這老人證得了初果。


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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


18.Malavagga

Chapter Eighteen   Impurity

第十八章  污垢

བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པ་དྲི་མའི་ལེའུ།


235. Paṇḍupalāsova dānisi, 

yamapurisāpi ca te upaṭṭhitā;

Uyyogamukhe ca tiṭṭhasi, 

pātheyyampi ca te na vijjati.

236. So karohi dīpamattano, 

khippaṃ vāyama paṇḍito bhava;

Niddhantamalo anaṅgaṇo, 

dibbaṃ ariyabhūmiṃ upehisi.

237. Upanītavayo ca dānisi, 

sampayātosi yamassa santike;

Vāso te natthi antarā, 

pātheyyampi ca te na vijjati.

238. So karohi dīpamattano, 

khippaṃ vāyama paṇḍito bhava;

Niddhantamalo anaṅgaṇo, 

na punaṃ jātijaraṃ upehisi.


235. Like a withered leaf are you now; death's messengers await you. You stand on the eve of your departure, yet you have made no provision for your journey!

236. Make an island for yourself! Strive hard and become wise! Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, you shall enter the celestial abode of the Noble Ones.

237. Your life has come to an end now; You are setting forth into the presence of Yama, the king of death. No resting place is there for you on the way, yet you have made no provision for the journey!

238. Make an island unto yourself! Strive hard and become wise! Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, you shall not come again to birth and decay.


235.你如今像片枯葉，死亡使者已靠近你，你快將開始漫長的旅程［1］ , 可是你並無足夠的資糧啊！

236.應充實自己、尋找支援，趕快精進，修成智者吧！徹底清除煩惱污垢之後，你便可轉生聖者聚居之處［2］啊！

【註釋】

［1］漫長的旅程：指不斷的生死輪迴。

［2］聖者聚居之處：指五淨居天，即無煩、無熱、善現、善見、色究竟天，是三果聖者往生的地方。

237.你如今年紀老大，壽命將盡，接近死亡，你快將開始漫長的旅程，可是你並無足夠的資糧啊！

238.應充實自己、尋求支援，趕快精進，修成智者吧！徹底清除煩惱污垢之後，你便可不再生死輪迴了。


235.你如今像片枯叶，死亡使者已靠近你，你快将开始漫长的旅程［1］ , 可是你并无足够的资粮啊！

236.应充实自己、寻找支援，赶快精进，修成智者吧！彻底清除烦恼污垢之后，你便可转生圣者聚居之处［2］啊！

【注释】

［1］漫长的旅程：指不断的生死轮回。

［2］圣者聚居之处：指五净居天，即无烦、无热、善现、善见、色究竟天，是三果圣者往生的地方。

237.你如今年纪老大，寿命将尽，接近死亡，你快将开始漫长的旅程，可是你并无足够的资粮啊！

238.应充实自己、寻求支援，赶快精进，修成智者吧！彻底清除烦恼污垢之后，你便可不再生死轮回了。


༢༣༥༽ ད་ལྟ་ཁྱོད་ནི་ལོ་མ་རྙིད་པོ་བཞིན། །གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཕོ་ཉས་ཁྱོད་ལ་འཆི་བསྒུགས་བྱེད། །ཕྱི་མར་འགྲོ་བའི་དུས་རན་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ནི། །ད་དུང་ལམ་རྒྱགས་གྲལ་འགྲིག་བྱས་མི་འདུག །

༢༣༦༽ རང་ཉིད་གླིང་དུ་བྱས་ནས་ནི། །ཤུགས་ཆེར་བརྩོན་ཏེ་མཁས་པར་བྱ། །དྲི་མ་དག་ཅིང་མི་གཙང་སྤོང་། །མཐོ་རིས་འཕགས་པའི་གནས་སུ་སླེབ། །

༢༣༧༽ ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ཚེ་ནི་ཐ་མར་སླེབ། །གཤིན་རྗེའི་མདུན་སར་འགྲོ་བཞིན་འདུག །ལམ་དུ་ངལ་གསོའི་གནས་མི་འདུག །ད་དུང་ལམ་རྒྱགས་བྱས་པ་མེད། །

༢༣༨༽ རང་ཉིད་གླིང་དུ་བྱས་ནས་ནི། །ཤུགས་ཆེར་བརྩོན་ཏེ་མཁས་པརབྱ། །དྲི་མ་དག་ཅིང་མི་གཙང་སྤོང་། །ཁྱོད་ལ་སྐྱེ་རྒ་སླར་མི་འབྱུང་། །



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