往生成昆蟲的比丘 Tissatthera Vatthu

 Tissatthera Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 240

Ayasava malan samutthitam
tatutthaya tameva khadati
evam atidhonacarinam1
sani kammani nayanti duggatim.

Verse 240: Just as rust is formed from iron, and corrodes the iron from which it is formed, so also, his own deeds lead the transgressor to a lower plane of existence (duggati).

1. atidhonacarinam - transgressor: i.e., one who transgresses or indulges too much in the use of 'dhona', the four requisites of a bhikkhu.

The Story of Thera Tissa

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (240) of this book, with reference to Thera Tissa.

Once there was a thera named Tissa in Savatthi. One day, he received a set of fine robes and was very pleased. He intended to wear those robes the next day. But that very night he died and because he was attached to the fine set of robes, he was reborn as a louse and lived within the folds of the robes. As there was no one to inherit his belongings, it was decided that this particular set of robes should be shared by other bhikkhus. When the bhikkhus were preparing to share out among themselves, the louse was very much agitated and cried out, "They are destroying my robes!" This cry was heard by the Buddha by means of his divine power of hearing. So he sent someone to stop the bhikkhus and instructed them to dispose of the robes only at the end of seven days. On the eighth day, the set of the robes which belonged to Thera Tissa was shared out by the bhikkhus.

Later, the Buddha was asked by the bhikkhus why he had told them to wait for seven days before sharing out the robes of Thera Tissa. To them the Buddha replied, "My sons, Tissa had his mind attached to this particular set of robes at the time of his death, and so he was reborn as a louse and stayed in the folds of the robes. When you all were preparing to share out the robes, Tissa the louse was very much in agony and was running about to and fro in the folds of the robes. If you had taken the robes at that time Tissa the louse would have felt very bitter against you and he would have to go to niraya. But now, Tissa has been reborn in the Tusita deva world, and that is why I have allowed you to take the robes. Indeed, bhikkhus, attachment is very dangerous; as rust corrodes iron from which it is formed, so also, attachment destroys one and sends one to niraya. A bhikkhu should not indulge too much in the use of the four requisites or be very much attached to them."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 240: Just as rust is formed from iron, and corrodes the iron from which it is formed, so also, his own deeds lead the transgressor to a lower plane of existence (duggati).

往生成昆蟲的比丘


惡業使做惡業的人墮落惡趣，如同鐵銹從鐵塊中長出來， 卻反而腐蝕鐵塊。 (偈 240)


　　提沙是舍衛城的比丘。有一天，他獲得一些很好的袈裟而顯得非常高興。他想要在第二天就穿上它們。但當天晚上，他卻去世了。由於對這些袈裟不當的執著，他竟然往生成一隻昆蟲，並且住在這些袈裟的褶層內。因為沒人可以繼承他的遺物，其他比丘決定把這些袈裟分給大家。當他們正準備分袈裟時，這隻昆蟲非常憤怒，大聲哭吼著：「他們在損毀我的袈裟。」

　　這時候，佛陀透過神通力量，聽見它的哭叫聲，便建議比丘們七天後再處置這些袈裟。第八天，原屬於提沙的袈裟就分給其他比丘。

　　佛陀事後解釋為什麼要如此建議：「提沙在臨終時，執著於這些袈裟，所以他往生後的前幾天，先變成昆蟲，並且住在這些袈裟裏面。當你們要處理那些袈裟時，他非常痛苦，就在袈裟內跑來跑去。如果當時你們真的處理掉那些袈裟，他絕對會因為對你們的極端痛恨，而往生到更苦難的境界去。現在，由於他以前的善業，他已經往生到幸福的境界了，我才允許你們處理這些袈裟。比丘們！執著是非常危險的，就好像鐵銹腐壞本來的鐵塊一樣，執著也毀滅一個人，使人墮落到更差的生命形態去。比丘不應該沉溺或執著於四食，因為執著會延緩一個人修行的進步。」


‧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། 31 October 2020

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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།


240. Ayasāva malaṃ samuṭṭhitaṃ, 

tatuṭṭhāya tameva khādati;

Evaṃ atidhonacārinaṃ, 

sāni kammāni nayanti duggatiṃ.


240. Just as rust arising from iron eats away the base from which it arises, even so, their own deeds lead transgressors to states of woe.


240.如鐵生銹，而銹反過來腐蝕鐵一樣，作惡業者，其惡業必導致他轉生惡趣的。


240.如铁生锈，而锈反过来腐蚀铁一样，作恶业者，其恶业必导致他转生恶趣的。


༢༤༠༽ ལྕགས་ལས་ལངས་པའི་བཙའ་ཡིས་ནི། །རང་ཉིང་ཟ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ལྟར། །སྡིག་ཅན་རང་གི་ལས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །ངན་སོང་གནས་སུ་འཁྲིད་པར་བྱེད། །





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