知識不等於領悟 Ekudanakhinasava Vatthu

 Ekudanakhinasava Vatthu

Dhammapada Verse 259

Na tavata dhammadharo
yavata bahu bhasati
yo ca appampi sutvana
dhammam kayena passati
sa ve dhammadharo hoti
yo dhammam nappamajjati.

Verse 259: He is not "one versed in the Dhamma (Dhammadhara)" just because he talks much. He who hears only a little but comprehends the Dhamma, and is not unmindful is, indeed, "one versed in the Dhamma".

The Story of Ekudana the Arahat

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (259) of this book, with reference to a bhikkhu who was an arahat.

This bhikkhu lived in a grove near Savatthi. He was known as Ekudana, because he knew only one stanza of exultation (Udana) by heart. But the thera fully understood the meaning of the Dhamma as conveyed by the stanza. On each sabbath day, he would exhort others to listen to the Dhamma, and he himself would recite the one stanza he knew. Every time he had finished his recitation, the guardian spirits (devas) of the forests praised him and applauded him resoundingly. On one sabbath day, two learned theras, who were well-versed in the Tipitaka, accompanied by five hundred bhikkhus came to his place. Ekudana asked the two theras to preach the Dhamma. They enquired if there were many who wished to listen to the Dhamma in this out of the way place. Ekudana answered in the affirmative and also told them that even the guardian spirits of the forests usually came, and that they usually praised and applauded at the end of discourses.

So, the two learned theras took turns to preach the Dhamma, but when their discourses ended, there was no applause from the guardian spirits of the forests. The two learned theras were puzzled; they even doubted the words of Ekudana. But Ekudana insisted that the guardian spirits used to come and always applauded at the end of each discourse. The two theras then pressed Ekudana to do the preaching himself. Ekudana held the fan in front of him and recited the usual stanza. At the end of the recitation, the guardian spirits applauded as usual. The bhikkhus who had accompanied the two learned theras complained that the devas inhabiting the forests were very partial.

They reported the matter to the Buddha on arrival at the Jetavana monastery. To them the Buddha said. "Bhikkhus! I do not say that a bhikkhu who has learnt much and talks much of the Dhamma is one who is versed in the Dhamma, (Dhammadhara)." One who has learnt very little and knows only one stanza of the Dhamma, but fully comprehends the Four Noble Truths, and is ever mindful is the one who is truly versed in the Dhamma."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 259: He is not "one versed in the Dhamma (Dhammadhara)" just because he talks much. He who hears only a little but comprehends the Dhamma, and is not unmindful is, indeed, "one versed in the Dhamma".

知識不等於領悟

經常說法的人，不一定就是精通佛法的人；雖然聽聞的佛法不多，但卻能心領神會、如法奉行的人，才是精通佛法的人。 (偈259)


　　舍衛城附近的果園裡住著一位名字叫伊咕達那的比丘。雖然他只能熟記一首佛陀無問自說的偈，但是他徹底明白其中的法義。只要有機會，他就勸別人修習佛法，並且誦這首偈語給人聽。每次他誦完偈語之後，森林裡的守護精靈就很熱切地鼓掌稱讚他。有一次，兩位嫺熟三藏的比丘在眾多比丘的陪伴下，前來他停留的精舍，他就邀請他們分別說法。這兩位比丘問他在這麼偏僻的地方，會有很多人願意來聽法嗎？他告訴他們，甚至森林裡的精靈都會在每次說法後，鼓掌稱讚。

　　於是這兩位比丘輪流說法。但結束時，森林裡卻靜悄悄的。他們十分困惑，懷疑伊咕達那剛才所說的話。但伊咕達那堅持說精靈會來聽法，並且鼓掌讚歎，他們就要他親自說法。他便用扇子遮在身前，然後背誦佛陀的偈語。背誦後，精靈一如往常地熱切鼓掌讚歎。陪伴他們前來的比丘們看見這種情形後，認為森林裡的精靈對伊咕達那比較友善。

　　比丘們回到祇樹給孤獨園時，向佛陀報告這件事。佛陀告誡他們：「比丘們！我不認為多聞且經常說法的人就對佛法有正確的知見。相反的，懂得不多，只知一首偈語，但完全了解四聖諦，經常正念現前的人才是真正了解佛法的人。」


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《法句經》

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


19.Dhammaṭṭhavagga

Chapter Nineteen  The Just

第十九章   安住真理的人

བཅུ་དགུ་པ་དྲང་པོའི་ལེའུ། 


259. Na tāvatā dhammadharo, 

yāvatā bahu bhāsati;

Yo ca appampi sutvāna, 

dhammaṃ kāyena passati;

Sa ve dhammadharo hoti, 

yo dhammaṃ nappamajjati.


259. A man is not versed in Dhamma because he speaks much. He who, after hearing a little Dhamma, realizes its truth directly and is not heedless of it, is truly versed in the Dhamma.


259.經常講解佛法的人，不一定是精通佛法的人；那些雖然聽聞佛法不多， 但心領神會，專注修行的人，才是精通佛法的人。


259.经常讲解佛法的人，不一定是精通佛法的人；那些虽然听闻佛法不多， 但心领神会，专注修行的人，才是精通佛法的人。


༢༥༩༽ མང་དུ་སྨྲ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །ཆོས་ལ་མཁས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། །གང་ཞིག་ཐོས་པ་ཆུང་ན་ཡང་། །བདེན་པའི་རང་བཞིན་མྱུར་རྟོགས་ནས། །དེ་ལ་བག་མེད་མི་བྱེད་པ། །ངེས་པར་ཆོས་ལ་མཁས་པ་ཡིན། །





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