寶經的威力 Attanopubbakamma Vatthu
Attanopubbakamma Vatthu
Dhammapada Verse 290
Matta sukhapariccaga
passe ce vipulam sukham
caje mattasukhirh dhiro
sampassam vipulam sukham1.
Verse 290: If by giving up small pleasures great happiness is to be found, the wise should give up small pleasures seeing (the prospect of) great happiness.
1. vipulam sukham: According to the Commentary, it means the bliss of Nibbana.
The Story of the Buddha's Former Deeds
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (290) of this book, with reference to the power and glory of the Buddha as witnessed by many people on his visit to Vesali.
Once, a famine broke out in Vesali. It began with a serious drought. Because of drought, there was almost a total failure of crops and many people died of starvation. This was followed by an epidemic of diseases and as people could hardly cope with the disposal of the corpses there was a lot of stench in the air. This stench attracted the ogres. The people of Vesali were facing the dangers of destruction by famine, disease and also by the ogres. In their grief and sorrow they tried to look for a refuge. They thought of going for help from various sources but finally, they decided to invite the Buddha. So a mission headed by Mahali, the Licchavi prince, and the son of the chief brahmin were sent to King Bimbisara to request the Buddha to pay a visit to Vesali and help them in their distress. The Buddha knew that this visit would be of much benefit to many people, so he consented to go to Vesali.
Accordingly, King Bimbisara repaired the road between Rajagaha and the bank of the river Ganga. He also made other preparations and set up special resting-places at an interval of every yojana. When everything was ready, the Buddha set out for Vesali with five hundred bhikkhus. King Bimbisara also accompanied the Buddha. On the fifth day they came to the bank of the river Ganga and King Bimbisara sent word to the Licchavi princes. On the other side of the river, the Licchavi princes had repaired the road between the river and Vesali and had set up resting places as had been done by King Bimbisara on his side of the river. The Buddha went to Vesali with Licchavi princes but King Bimbisara stayed behind.
As soon as the Buddha reached the other bank of the river heavy rains fell in torrents, thus cleansing up Vesali. The Buddha was put up in the rest-house which was specially prepared for him in the central part of the city. Sakka, king of the devas, came with his followers to pay obeisance to the Buddha, and the ogres fled. That same evening the Buddha delivered the Ratana Sutta and asked the Venerable Ananda to go round between the threefold walls of the city with the Licchavi princes and recite it. The Venerable Ananda did as he was told. As the protective verses (parittas) were being recited, many of those who were sick recovered and followed the Venerable Ananda to the presence of the Buddha. The Buddha delivered the same Sutta and repeated it for seven days. At the end of the seven days, everything was back to normal in Vesali. The Licchavi princes and the people of Vesali were very much relieved and were overjoyed. They were also very grateful to the Buddha. They paid obeisance to the Buddha and made offerings to him on a grand and lavish scale. They also accompanied the Buddha on his return journey until they came to the bank of the Ganga at the end of three days.
On arrival at the river bank, King Bimbisara was waiting for the Buddha; so also were the devas and the brahmas and the king of the Nagas with their respective entourage. All of them paid obeisance and made offerings to the Buddha. The devas and the brahmas paid homage with umbrellas, flowers, etc., and sang in praise of the Buddha. The Nagas had come with barges made of gold, silver and rubies to invite the Buddha to the realm of the Nagas; they had also strewn the surface of the water with five hundred kinds of lotuses. This was one of the three occasions in the life of the Buddha when human beings, devas and brahmas came together to pay homage to the Buddha. The first occasion was when the Buddha manifested his power and glory by the miracle of the pairs, emitting rays of light and sprays of water; and the second was on his return from the Tavatimsa deva world after expounding the Abhidhamma.
The Buddha, wishing to honour the Nagas, then paid a visit to the realm of the Nagas accompanied by the bhikkhus. The Buddha and his entourage went in the five hundred barges brought by the Nagas. After his visit to the realm of the Nagas, the Buddha returned to Rajagaha accompanied by King Bimbisara. They arrived at Rajagaha on the fifth day. Two days after their arrival at Rajagaha, while the bhikkhus were talking about the amazing grandeur and glory of the trip to and from Vesali, the Buddha arrived on the scene. On learning the subject of their talk, the Buddha said to them, "Bhikkhus, that I have been revered so much by brahmas, devas and human beings alike and that they have made offerings on such a grand and lavish scale to me on this occasion is not due to the power I now possess; it is simply because I had done some small meritorious deeds in one of my previous existences that I now enjoy such great benefits". Then the Buddha related the story of one of his past existences, when he was a brahmin by the name of Sankha.
Once there was a brahmin named Sankha who lived in the city of Taxila. He had a son named Susima. When Susima was sixteen years old, he was sent by his father to another brahmin to study astrology. His teacher taught him all that should be learnt, but Susima was not fully satisfied. So, his teacher directed him to approach the paccekabuddhas who were then staying in Isipatana. Susima went to Isipatana, but the paccekabuddhas told him that he must first become a bhikkhu. Thus, he became a bhikkhu, and was instructed how to conduct himself as a bhikkhu. Susima diligently practised meditation and he soon comprehended the Four Noble Truths, acquired Bodhi nana, and became a paccekabuddha himself. But as a result of his previous kamma Susima did not live long; he realized parinibbana soon afterwards.
Sankha, the father of Susima, came in search of his son, but when he arrived he only found the stupa where the relics of his son were enshrined. The brahmin felt very much distressed at the loss of his son. He proceeded to clean up the precincts of the stupa, by clearing away grass and weeds; then he covered up the ground with sand and sprinkled it with water. Next, he went into the nearby woods for some wild flowers and stuck them on the wet ground. In that way, he offered his services and paid respect to the paccekabuddha who was once his son. It was because of that good deed done in that previous existence of his that the Buddha gained such benefits, that he was showered with such lavish offerings, that he was shown such deep reverence and great devotion on that particular occasion.
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
Verse 290: If by giving up small pleasures great happiness is to be found, the wise should give up small pleasures seeing (the prospect of) great happiness.寶經的威力如果捨棄小小樂，可以獲得更大的樂，那麼智者應捨棄小小樂，追求至善的樂。 (偈 290) 毗舍離有一年發生嚴重乾旱，更造成飢荒，所有的農作物幾乎完全沒有收成，很多人餓死，流行性傳染病也爆發了。城裡的人無法處理死人的屍首，所以屍臭滿城，也引來很多邪惡的精靈。 城裡的人，無限哀傷，便想辦法向四方求援，但最後決定尋求佛陀的協助。所以由離車國摩訶利王子率領的代表團就向頻婆裟羅王進言，請國王邀請佛陀到毗舍離城來幫忙解決他們的困境和哀愁，但國王叫他們親自前去邀請佛陀。佛陀知道此去可以造福眾人，也就同意前往。 佛陀和眾多比丘抵達毗舍離城的時候，天空突然下起傾盆大雨，把城裡沖洗乾淨。佛陀被安排住進一座特別準備的客房，這時候，帝釋率領諸天神前來向佛陀禮敬，眾多邪惡的精靈因而逃離。當天傍晚，佛陀開講《寶經》，並要阿難繞城複誦該經文。阿難依照佛陀的指示去做，由於該經具有保護的力量，很多生病的人都康復了。佛陀一連七天都講相同的經文，第七天結束的時候，毗舍離城一切恢復正常。大雨也把城裡所有的污穢物清洗乾淨。離車王子們和毗舍離城的百姓從此快活過日子，不再鬱悶，他們也非常感激佛陀的幫忙。 ‧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། 30 November 2020Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3) Dhammapada 《法句經》 ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། 21. Pakiṇṇakavaggo Chapter Twenty One Miscellaneous 第二十一章 雜類 ཉེར་གཅིག་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ལེའུ། 290. Mattāsukhapariccāgā, passe ce vipulaṃ sukhaṃ; Caje mattāsukhaṃ dhīro, sampassaṃ vipulaṃ sukhaṃ. 290. If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise man renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. 290.如果捨棄小樂可以得到大樂，有遠見的智者就應捨棄小樂。 290.如果舍弃小乐可以得到大乐，有远见的智者就应舍弃小乐。 ༢༩༠༽ གང་ཞིག་བདེ་བ་ཆུང་སྤངས་པས། །བདེ་ཆེན་རྙེད་པ་ཤེས་ན་ནི། །མཁས་པས་བདེ་ཆེན་རྙེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །བདེ་བ་ཆུང་རྣམས་སྤང་བར་བྱ། །  You may choose your language. The five options are: Pali, English, Cantonese and Putonghua, Tibetan. 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 It is a free gift. 此是免費贈送的法寶。 འབུལ་བ་འདི་རིན་མེད་ཡིན། #Dhammapada #法句經 #ཆོསཀྱིཚིགསསུབཅསཔ། #DharmaisNOTforSALE #佛法是非賣品 #དམཆོསརིནམེད |
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