富翁 Mendakasetthi Vatthu

 Mendakasetthi Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 252

Sudassam vajjamannesam
attano pana duddsam
paresam hi so vajjani
opunati yatha bhusam
attano pana chadeti
kalimva kitava satho.1

Verse 252: It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own. A man broadcasts the fault; of others like winnowing chaff in the wind, but hides his own faults as a crafty fowler covers himself.

1. Satho: a cheat, a gambler. According to the Commentary, it means a crafty fowler.

The Story of Mendaka the Rich Man

While residing near the town of Baddiya, the Buddha uttered Verse (252) of this book with reference to the renowned rich man Mendaka and his family.

Once, during his tour of Anga and Uttara regions, the Buddha saw in his vision that time was ripe for Mendaka, his wife, his son, his daughter-in-law, his granddaughter and his servant, to attain Sotapatti Fruition. Seeing the prospect of these six people attaining Sotapatti Fruition, the Buddha went to the town of Baddiya.

Mendaka was an extremely rich man. It was said that he found a large number of life-size golden statues of goats in his backyard. For this reason, he was known as Mendaka (a goat) the rich man. Again, it was also said that during the time of Vipassi Buddha he had donated a monastery for Vipassi Buddha and a congregation hall complete with a platform for the preacher. On completion of these buildings he made offerings of alms-food to Vipassi Buddha and the bhikkhus for four months. Then, in yet another of his past existences, when he was a rich man in Baranasi, there was a famine throughout the region. One day, they had cooked a meal just enough for the members of the family when a paccekabuddha stood at the door for alms-food. Then and there he offered all the food. But due to his great faith and generosity, the rice pot was later found to be miraculously filled up again; so also were his granaries.

Mendaka and his family, hearing that the Buddha was coming to Baddiya, went to pay homage to him. After hearing the discourse given by the Buddha, Mendaka, his wife Candapaduma, his son Danancaya, his daughter-in-law Sumanadevi, his granddaughter Visakha and the servant Punna attained Sotapatti Fruition. Mendaka then told the Buddha how on his way, some ascetics had spoken ill of the Buddha and had tried to dissuade him from coming to see him. The Buddha then said, "My disciple, it is natural for people not to see one's own faults, and to exaggerate other people's faults and failings."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 252: It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own. A man broadcasts the fault; of others like winnowing chaff in the wind, but hides his own faults as a crafty fowler covers himself.

富翁


看見別人的過失很容易，看見自己的過失則很難；揭揚別人的過錯，像揚棄糟糠，但隱匿自己的過錯，卻像狡猾的家禽躲藏起來。(偈252)


　　有一次，佛陀到鴦伽國和優塔盧弘揚佛法時，來到跋提城。他透過神通，知道城中巨富泯兔家人，包括他本人、妻子、兒子、媳婦、孫女和僕人證得初果的機緣已經成熟 。泯兔本人曾在家中後院發現大堆等身高的金羊雕像，人們因此稱呼他泯兔（巴利文的 意思是公羊）富翁。

　　泯兔家人聽說佛陀來到跋提，就前去向佛陀頂禮問訊，並且在聽完佛陀的說法後， 證得初果。泯兔告訴佛陀，在他們前來聽法的路上，一些苦行外道批評佛陀，並且試圖 說服他不要前來聽佛陀說法。佛陀回答他：「弟子啊！誇大別人的缺點和錯誤，而對自己的錯誤視若無睹是很自然的現象。」

　　佛陀接著說明泯兔的前世。佛陀說在某一世時，泯兔捐獻興建一座精舍和集會用的廳堂給迦葉佛。而在另一世時，他是波羅奈的富翁，那時候，當地發生飢荒，他把自己 僅剩的食物供養一位辟支佛。由於這供養，他煮飯的鍋罐奇蹟似的裝滿了米。


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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


18.Malavagga

Chapter Eighteen   Impurity

第十八章  污垢

བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པ་དྲི་མའི་ལེའུ།


252. Sudassaṃ vajjamaññesaṃ, 

attano pana duddasaṃ;

Paresaṃ hi so vajjāni, 

opunāti yathā bhusaṃ;

Attano pana chādeti, 

kaliṃva kitavā saṭho.


252. Easily seen is the fault of others, but one's own fault is difficult to see. Like chaff one winnows another's faults, but hides one's own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham branches.


252.看到別人的過失容易，看到自己的過失甚難；散播別人的過失時，就像順風颺糠［1］，散去各地，隱瞞自己的過失時，就像狡滑的賭徒隱藏其騙術一樣。［2］

【註釋】

［1］颺糠：颺，音陽，被風吹起或吹走。糠，穀的外殼。意指篩穀時讓風吹去較輕的穀殼。

［1］末句的另一版本是：就像善捕鳥者善於隱藏自己一樣。


252.看到别人的过失容易，看到自己的过失甚难；散播别人的过失时，就像顺风飏糠［1］，散去各地，隐瞒自己的过失时，就像狡滑的赌徒隐藏其骗术一样。［2］

【注释】

［1］飏糠：飏，音阳，被风吹起或吹走。糠，谷的外壳。意指筛谷时让风吹去较轻的谷壳。

［1］末句的另一版本是：就像善捕鸟者善于隐藏自己一样。


༢༥༢༽ གཞན་གྱི་སྐྱོན་ནི་མཐོང་སླ་ཡང་། །རང་སྐྱོན་མཐོང་བར་དཀའ་བ་སྟེ། །གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྐྱོན་དག་ནི། །སྦུན་པ་བཞིན་དུ་རླུང་ལ་འཕྱར། །འོན་ཀྱང་རང་སྐྱོན་བཀབ་པ་སྟེ། །བྱ་གཤོར་གྲུང་པོ་ཡིབ་པ་བཞིན། །




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