眾生皆會死 Kisagotami Vatthu

Kisagotami Vatthu  


Dhammapada Verse 287

Tam puttapasusammattam
byasattamanasam naram
suttam gamam mahoghova
maccu adaya gacchati.

Verse 287: The man who dotes on his children and his herds of cattle, whose mind longs for and is attached to sensual pleasures, is carried away by Death even as a sleeping village is swept away by a great flood.

The Story of Kisagotami*

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (287) of this book, with reference to Kisagotami, the daughter of a rich man from Savatthi.

Kisagotami came to the Buddha as she was stricken with grief due to the death of her only son. To her the Buddha said, "Kisagotami, you think you are the only one who has lost a son. Death comes to all beings; before their desires are satiated Death takes them away."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 287: The man who dotes on his children and his herds of cattle, whose mind longs for and is attached to sensual pleasures, is carried away by Death even as a sleeping village is swept away by a great flood.

At the end of the discourse Kisagotami attained Sotapatti Fruition.

* This story has been given in Verse 114, Chapter VIII - Story No. 13.


眾生皆會死


溺愛子女和家畜的人，內心執著貪愛的人，將被死神捉去，如同洪流橫掃沈睡的村落般。(偈 287)


　　吉離舍瞿曇彌因為獨生子去世，心裡哀傷而來找佛陀。佛陀告訴她：

　　「吉離舍瞿曇彌呀！難道妳認為妳是唯一喪失兒子的人嗎？眾生都會死的！欲望尚未完全滿足的時候，眾生就會死去。」

　　佛陀的忠告使吉離舍瞿曇彌不再悲傷難過。



（註）吉離舍瞿曇彌的故事請參考「死而復生」

死而復生


若長命百歲，但不知非緣起法的涅槃，不如一日一夜徹底明白非緣起法的涅槃。 (偈 114)

　　

吉離舍瞿曇彌是舍衛城的人，因為身材苗條，所以人們稱呼她吉離舍瞿曇彌。後來 ，她嫁給一位年輕的富翁，也生了一個兒子。但她的兒子卻在剛學會走路時因故去 世了。她為此痛苦逾恆，就抱著兒子的屍首，到處請求人家，能不能救救她的兒子。人們 認為她已經瘋了，但有位智者，看見她可憐的樣子，就決定送她去見佛陀。

　　這位智者告訴她：「妳應該去見佛陀，他有妳想要的藥，去吧！」她就去請求佛陀 給她可以救活兒子的藥。

　　佛陀知道她心思紊亂，便答應救活她的兒子，但要她先到村子裡，去找從未有親人去世的人家要一些芥子來。她心想有救活兒子的希望，一下子興奮過頭，沒能仔細思量佛 陀話中的含意，就挨家挨戶的問。每戶人家都很樂意幫助她，但她就是找不到一戶從沒有親人去世過的人家。天色漸漸向晚時，她才明白不只她有親人過世，而且，她也知道 死去的人比活著的人還多。她的態度因此變了，不再執著於兒子的屍首，她也明白佛陀 已經教導她最珍貴的道理：有生就有死。

　　她埋葬完兒子後，就回去告訴佛陀，找不到一戶從沒有親人去世的人家。佛陀說： 「瞿曇彌！妳不可以錯誤地以為只有妳的兒子喪生。現在妳已經明白，眾生都會死亡。 眾生欲望尚未滿足之前，死亡就奪走人的生命。」

　　吉離舍瞿曇彌明白生命的變化和無常之後，決定放棄世間的生活，便請求佛陀允許 她加入尼僧團。佛陀就送她去尼僧團，並要尼僧團接納她成為比丘尼。

　　她非常勤奮，經常正念現前，察覺自己的修行職責，並且精進修行，去除煩惱。

　　一天夜晚，她點燃油燈，並且在距離油燈不遠處坐下，然後集中心念，觀察火燄。 她發現火燄明滅不斷，這時她心中如此想到：「一如火燄明滅不斷，世上一切眾生也都 如此，生滅不斷(有人生，有人滅)，只有證得涅槃的人才不會生滅。」

　　這時候，佛陀在祇樹給孤獨園透過神通，明白她的修行進展，就放光，勸誡她繼續 觀想諸法無常，並且說：「若長命百歲，但不知無為法的涅槃，不如一日一夜徹底明白 涅槃。」聽完佛陀的說法後，她就證得阿羅漢果。



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《法句經》

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20. Maggavagga

Chapter Twenty  The Path

第二十章 道

ཉི་ཤུ་པ་ལམ་གྱི་ལེའུ།


287. Taṃ puttapasusammattaṃ, 

byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;

Suttaṃ gāmaṃ mahoghova, 

maccu ādāya gacchati.


287. As a great flood carries away a sleeping village, so death seizes and carries away the man with a clinging mind, doting on his children and cattle.


287.溺愛子女與家畜的人，心受愛欲束縛，將被死神帶走，像突然而來的洪水，把熟睡中的村莊淹沒一樣。


287.溺爱子女与家畜的人，心受爱欲束缚，将被死神带走，像突然而来的洪水，把熟睡中的村庄淹没一样。


༢༨༧༽ སྣང་མེད་ལུས་པའི་ཡུལ་གང་ཞིག །ཆུ་ལོག་ཆེན་པོས་འཁྱེར་བ་ལྟར། །བུ་དང་ཕྱུགས་ལ་ཆགས་པའི་མི། །སེམས་འཁྲེང་བཞིན་དུ་འཆི་བས་འཕྲོག །




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