年齡不是判斷的標準 Lakundakabhaddiyatthera Vatthu

 Lakundakabhaddiyatthera Vatthu 




Dhammapada Verses 260 and 261

Na tena thero so hoti
yenassa palitam siro
paripakko vayo tassa
"moghajinno" ti vuccati.

Yamhi saccanca dhammo ca
ahimsa samyamo damo
sa ve vantamalo1 dhiro
"thero2" iti pavuccati.

Verse 260: He is not a thera just because his head is grey; he who is ripe only in years is called "one grown old in vain".

Verse 261: Only a wise man who comprehends the Four Noble Truths and the Dhamma, who is harmless and virtuous, who restrains his senses and has rid himself of moral defilements is indeed called a thera.

1. vantamalo: lit., has vomited impurities.

2. thero: an Elder, i.e., a senior member of the Buddhist Order; but often applied to bhikkhus in general.

The Story of Thera Bhaddiya

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (260) and (261) of this book, with reference to Thera Bhaddiya. He was also known as Lakundaka Bhaddiya because he was very short in stature.

One day, thirty bhikkhus came to pay obeisance to the Buddha. The Buddha knew that time was ripe for those thirty bhikkhus to attain arahatship. So he asked them whether they had seen a thera as they came into the room. They answered that they did not see a thera but they saw only a young samanera as they came in. Whereupon, the Buddha said to them, "Bhikkhus! That person is not a samanera, he is a senior bhikkhu although he is small-built and very unassuming. I do say that one is not a thera just because he is old and looks like a thera; only he who comprehends the Four Noble Truths and does not harm others is to be called a thera."

Verse 260: He is not a thera just because his head is grey; he who is ripe only in years is called "one grown old in vain".

 

Verse 261: Only a wise man who comprehends the Four Noble Truths and the Dhamma, who is harmless and virtuous, who restrains his senses and has rid himself of moral defilements is indeed called a thera.

At the end of the discourse those thirty bhikkhus attained arahatship.


年齡不是判斷的標準


上座 (譯註)，不是因為頭髮灰白；只是年歲增長的人，不過「年齒徒長」而已。 (偈 260) 

明白四聖諦與正法、不殺生、戒行具足、調伏欲望，去除煩惱的人才是真正的上座。 (偈 261)


　　有一天，一群比丘前來向佛陀頂禮問訊。佛陀明白他們證得阿羅漢果的機緣已經成熟，就問他們，進來的時候，有沒有看見一位上座？他們說沒有，但卻瞥見一位沙彌。

　　佛陀說：「比丘們！那不是沙彌，而是上座。我不因為人的歲數大就稱之為上座， 任何人究竟明白四聖諦，而且不傷害別人，才是上座。」

譯註：「上座」即流傳中國大乘佛教的「長老」。


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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3)


Dhammapada

《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། 


260. Na tena thero so hoti,

yenassa palitaṃ siro;

Paripakko vayo tassa, 

“moghajiṇṇo’’ti vuccati.

261. Yamhi saccañca dhammo ca, 

ahiṃsā saṃyamo damo;

Sa ve vantamalo dhīro, 

“thero’’ iti pavuccati.


260. A monk is not an elder because his head is gray. He is but ripe in age, and he is called one grown old in vain.

261. One in whom there is truthfulness, virtue, inoffensiveness, restraint and self-mastery, who is free from defilements and is wise — he is truly called an Elder.


260.白髮的長者，不一定是長老；年紀大而沒有修行的人，是「白活到老」的人而已。

261.只有體證四聖諦與法［1］、無害心、有戒行、能自克制、去除煩惱污垢的智者，才可稱為長老。

【註釋】

［1］法：在這裡指九出世間法，即四道、四果與涅槃。


260.白发的长者，不一定是长老；年纪大而没有修行的人，是“白活到老”的人而已。

261.只有体证四圣谛与法［1］、无害心、有戒行、能自克制、去除烦恼污垢的智者，才可称为长老。

【注释】

［1］法：在这里指九出世间法，即四道、四果与涅槃。


༢༦༠༽ གང་ཞིག་དབུ་སྐྲ་སྐྱ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །དགེ་སློང་རྒན་པར་མི་འགྱུར་ཏེ། །དེ་ཡི་ན་ཚོད་སྨིན་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། །དོན་མེད་རྒན་པོ་བྱ་བ་ཡིན། །

༢༦༡༽ གང་ལ་བདེན་པ་དགེ་བ་དང་། །འཚེ་མེད་སྡོམ་ལྡན་འཇོན་སྟངས་ཆེ། །དྲི་མེད་མཁས་པ་དེ་ལ་ནི། །དགེ་སློང་རྒན་པར་ངེས་པར་བརྗོད། །




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