慈心保護優它拿不受熱水燙傷 Uttara Upasika Vatthu

Uttara Upasika Vatthu  

Dhammapada Verse 223

Akkodhena jine kodham
asadhum sadhuna jine
jine kadariyam danena
saccena' likavidinam.

Verse 223: Conquer the angry one by not getting angry (i.e., by loving-kindness); conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

The Story of Uttara the Lay-Disciple

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (223) of this book, with reference to Uttara, a female lay-disciple.

Uttara was the daughter of a farm labourer named Punna and his wife. Punna worked for a rich man named Sumana, in Rajagaha. One day, Punna and his wife offered alms-food to Thera Sariputta soon after his arising from sustained deep mental absorption (nirodha samapatti), and as a result of that good deed they suddenly became very rich. Punna came upon gold in the field he was ploughing, and the king officially declared him a royal banker. On one occasion, the family of Punna offered alms-food to the Buddha and the bhikkhus for seven days. and on the seventh day, after hearing the Buddha's discourse, all the three members of the family attained Sotapatti Fruition.

Later, Uttara the daughter of Punna married the son of the rich man Sumana. That family being non-Buddhist, Uttara did not feel happy in her husband's home. So, she told her father, "My father, why have you put me in this cage? Here, I do not see any bhikkhu and I have no chance to offer anything to any bhikkhu." Her father felt sorry for her and sent her fifteen thousand in cash. With this money, after getting permission from her husband, Uttara engaged a courtesan to look to the needs of her husband. So it was arranged that Sirima, a well-known and very beautiful courtesan, was to take her place as a wife for fifteen days.

During that time, Uttara offered alms-food to the Buddha and the bhikkhus. On the fifteenth day, as she was busy preparing food in the kitchen, her husband saw her from the bedroom window and smiled, and then muttered to himself, "How foolish she is! She does not know how to enjoy herself. She is tiring herself out with this alms-giving ceremony!" Sirima saw him smile, and forgetting that she was only a paid substitute wife felt very jealous of Uttara. Being unable to control herself, Sirima went into the kitchen and got a ladleful of boiling butter with the intention of pouring it over the head of Uttara. Uttara saw her coming, but she bore no ill will towards Sirima. She reflected that because Sirima had stood in for her, she had been able to listen to the dhamma, make offerings of alms-food for fifteen days, and perform other acts of charity. Thus she was quite thankful to Sirima. Suddenly, she realized that Sirima had come very close to her and was going to pour boiling-hot butter over her; so she made this asseveration: "If I bear any ill will towards Sirima may this boiling-hot butter burn me; if I have no ill will towards her may it not burn me."

As Uttara had no ill will towards Sirima, the boiling butter poured over her head by Sirima was just like cold water. Then Sirima thought the butter must have gone cold; and as she went for another ladleful of boiling butter, the attendants of Uttara fell upon her and beat her hard. Uttara stopped her attendants and instructed them to rub Sirima with medicinal ointment.

Then, Sirima remembered her true position and she regretted that she had done wrong to Uttara and asked Uttara to forgive her. To her Uttara replied, "I have my father; I shall ask him whether I should accept your apology." Sirima then said that she would readily go and apologize to the rich man, the father of Uttara. Uttara then explained to Sirima, "Sirima,. when I said 'My father', I did not mean my real father, who had brought me into this round of rebirths. I was referring to my father, the Buddha, who had helped me break the chain of rebirths, who had taught me the Dhamma, the Noble Truths." Sirima then expressed her wish to see the Buddha. So it was arranged that Sirima should offer alms-food to the Buddha and the bhikkhus on the following day at the house of Uttara.

After the meal, the Buddha was told everything that had happened between Sirima and Uttara. Sirima then owned up that she had done wrong to Uttara and entreated the Buddha that she should be forgiven, for otherwise Uttara would not forgive her. The Buddha then asked Uttara how she felt in her mind when Sirima poured boiling butter on her head, and Uttara answered, "Venerable Sir, because I owed so much to Sirima I had resolved not to lose my temper, not to bear any ill will towards her. I sent forth my love towards her". The Buddha then said, "Well done, well done, Uttara! By not bearing any ill will you have been able to conquer one who has done you wrong through hate. By not abusing, you should conquer one who abuses you; by being generous you should conquer one who is stingy; by speaking the truth you should conquer one who tells lies."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 223: Conquer the angry one by not getting angry (i.e., by loving-kindness); conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

At the end of the discourse Sirima and five hundred ladies attained Sotapatti Fruition.

慈心保護優它拿不受熱水燙傷


以愛調御忿怒，善制服惡，布施勝慳吝，以實話戰勝妄語。(偈223)


　　農夫富留那為富翁修摩那工作。他有一位女兒名字叫做優它拿。後來，有一天，他和妻子供養剛出滅盡定的舍利弗尊者，由於這善行，他在工作的農地上挖掘出金子而變得非常富有。國王也公開宣告他是王室銀行家。有一次，他連續七天供養佛陀和眾多比丘，並且在第七天聽完佛陀說法後，一家三人都領悟佛法。

　　後來，他把女兒優它拿婚配給富翁修摩那的兒子。但優它拿在夫家卻無法供養佛陀或聽聞佛陀開示，所以日子過得並不愉快。她就問她父親：「你為什麼把我關在籠子裡呢？我既無法見任何比丘，也沒有任何做善行的機會。」富留那對女兒的處境很內疚，只好給她大量的金錢，優它拿也在獲得丈夫的同意後，雇請絲蕊瑪來服侍丈夫一些日子。

　　優它拿利用這段期間供養佛陀和眾多比丘。第十五天時，丈夫看見她在廚房忙著準備食物時，笑著說：「多麼愚笨的人！不知道享受人生，只知道忙著準備供養的典禮儀式而累垮自己。」這時候，絲蕊瑪看著他這麼一笑，一時間忘記自己只不過是人家僱請來的幫佣而已，卻非常嫉妒她，更糟糕的是，竟然無法克制內心的妒意，就到廚房去拿起滾燙的熱水，企圖要潑向優它拿的頭。優他拿看著她過來時，心中毫無瞋念，並且想著就是因為絲蕊瑪的幫佣，她才有機會聽聞佛法，又作布施，因此對絲蕊瑪心存感激。但突然間，她明白絲蕊瑪要用滾燙的熱水潑她，她立刻下定決心：「如果我對她懷有任何的瞋心，就讓這滾燙的熱水燙傷我。如果沒有瞋心，願一切平安。」

　　由於優它拿對絲蕊瑪不懷一絲瞋心，這滾燙的熱水頓時像冷水般，對她毫髮未傷。絲蕊瑪認為這熱燙的水一定已經變涼了，就想要再去拿另一罐熱水來，但卻被優它拿的僕人抓住，並且加以毆打。優它拿阻止他們，並要他們為她敷藥。

　　這麼一來，絲蕊瑪恢復理智，明白自己的身份，她後悔自己想要傷害女主人的念頭，就請求優它拿原諒她。優它拿告訴她：「我要去請教父親可不可以接受你的道歉。」絲蕊瑪同意與她一齊去向優它拿的父親富留那道歉。但優它拿說：「我所謂的父親，不是指生身父親，而是幫助我打斷生死輪迴的佛陀。他教導我究竟真理的佛法。」絲蕊瑪表示她也想見佛陀。她們於是決定第二天由絲蕊瑪在優它拿家中供養佛陀和眾多比丘。

　　第二天，供養完後，她們向佛陀敘說兩人之間發生的事。絲蕊瑪承認犯了錯誤，懇請佛陀勸告優它拿原諒她。佛陀問優它拿，當絲蕊瑪要傷害她時，心中有什麼念頭？優它拿回答佛陀：「世尊，我因為感激她的幫忙，所以沒有任何恨意或瞋念，我只是向她展現我的善意。」

　　佛陀讚嘆她：「優它拿！做得對，做得好！心中不懷瞋念使你能征服辱罵妳的人；慷慨大方的人，能攝服吝嗇的人；說實話的人能攝服說謊的人。」

　　優它拿於是接受佛陀的忠告，原諒絲蕊瑪。


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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17. Kodhavagga

Chapter Seventeen  Anger

第十七章 忿怒

བཅུ་བདུན་པ་ཁྲོ་བའི་ལེའུ། 


223. Akkodhena jine kodhaṃ, 

asādhuṃ sādhunā jine;

Jine kadariyaṃ dānena, 

saccenālikavādinaṃ.


223. Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.


223.應以慈愛征服忿怒的人，應以善行征服惡人，應以布施征服吝嗇的人，應以真實語征服說謊的人。


223.应以慈爱征服忿怒的人，应以善行征服恶人，应以布施征服吝啬的人，应以真实语征服说谎的人。


༢༢༣༽ ཁྲོ་བ་མེད་པས་ཁྲོ་བ་དང་། །བཟང་པོས་ངན་པ་གཞོམ་པར་བྱ། །སྦྱིན་པའི་བློ་ཡིས་སེར་སྣ་དང་། །བདེན་པས་རྫུན་ཅན་གཞོམ་པར་བྱ། །





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