五位年老的比丘和一位年老的女人 Pancamahallakabhikkhu Vatthu

 Pancamahallakabhikkhu Vatthu

Dhammapada Verses 283 and 284

Vanam chindatha ma rukkham
vanato jayate bhayam
chetva vananca vanathanca
nibbana hotha bhikkhavo.

Yava hi vanatho na chijjati
anumattopi narassa narisu
patibaddhamanova tava so
vaccho khirapakova matari.

Verse 283: O bhikkhus, cut down the forest of craving, not the real tree; the forest of craving breeds danger (of rebirth). Cut down the forest of craving as well as its undergrowth and be free from craving.

Verse 284: So long as craving of man for woman is not cut down and the slightest trace of it remains, so long is his mind in bondage as the calf is bound to its mother.

The Story of Five Old Bhikkhus

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (283) and (284) of this book, with reference to five old bhikkhus.

Once, in Savatthi, there were five friends who became bhikkhus only in their old age. These five bhikkhus were in the habit of going together to their old homes for alms-food. Of the former wives of those five, one lady in particular, by the name of Madhurapacika was a good cook and she looked after them very well. Thus, the five bhikkhus went mostly to her house. But one day, Madhurapacika fell ill and died suddenly. The old bhikkhus felt their loss very deeply and together they cried praising her virtues and lamenting their loss.

The Buddha called those bhikkhus to him and said, "Bhikkhus! You all are feeling pain and sorrow because you are not free from greed, hatred, and ignorance (raga, dosa, moha), which are like a forest. Cut down this forest and you will be freed from greed, hatred and ignorance."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 283: O bhikkhus, cut down the forest of craving, not the real tree; the forest of craving breeds danger (of rebirth). Cut down the forest of craving as well as its undergrowth and be free from craving.

 

Verse 284: So long as craving of man for woman is not cut down and the slightest trace of it remains, so long is his mind in bondage as the calf is bound to its mother.

At the end of the discourse the five old bhikkhus attained Sotapatti Fruition.

五位年老的比丘和一位年老的女人


砍伐欲望之林，但不要傷及真正的樹木(註)，欲望之林只能生出恐怖。所以，比丘！砍伐大大小小的欲望之林，脫離欲望之林。(偈 283)

如果對女人仍存有一絲絲之情愫，內心就仍然受繫縛，如同小乳牛仍離不開母牛般。(偈 284)


　　從前，舍衛城裡有五位朋友，年老的時候，他們一起出家。

　　他們習慣回老家去化緣。其中一位的妻子烹飪手藝很好，並且妥善照顧他們，因此他們最常去化緣的地方，就是她家。

　　有一天，她突然生病了，並且遽然逝世。五位老比丘十分傷心，同聲哭泣並稱讚她的德性。

　　佛陀勸誡他們：「比丘們！你們深感憂愁、哀傷，那是因為你們未能解脫貪、瞋、癡，這三毒像一座大森林，砍掉它吧！你們就能解除心靈的污垢。」

註：佛陀說砍伐森林時，有些新出家的比丘誤解佛陀的意思，所以佛陀進一步說，砍伐欲望之林，而不是真正的森林。


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著


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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། །


20. Maggavagga

Chapter Twenty  The Path

第二十章 道

ཉི་ཤུ་པ་ལམ་གྱི་ལེའུ།


283. Vanaṃ chindatha mā rukkhaṃ, 

vanato jāyate bhayaṃ;

Chetvā vanañca vanathañca, 

nibbanā hotha bhikkhavo.

284. Yāva hi vanatho na chijjati, 

aṇumattopi narassa nārisu;

Paṭibaddhamanova tāva so, 

vaccho khīrapakova mātari.


283. Cut down the forest (lust), but not the tree; from the forest springs fear. Having cut down the forest and the underbrush (desire), be passionless, O monks!

[The meaning of this injunction is: "Cut down the forest of lust, but do not mortify the body."]

284. For so long as the underbrush of desire, even the most subtle, of a man towards a woman is not cut down, his mind is in bondage, like the sucking calf to its mother.


283.比丘啊！砍伐欲林，莫砍伐真的樹木；欲林產生危難［1］，故應砍伐愛欲之林及其草叢，遠離愛欲的束縛。

【註釋】

［1］危難：尤指不斷生死的危難。

284.男女間的愛欲若未根除，即使還剩少許，其心仍受束縛，像小牛離不開母牛一樣。


283.比丘啊！砍伐欲林，莫砍伐真的树木；欲林产生危难［1］，故应砍伐爱欲之林及其草丛，远离爱欲的束缚。

【注释】

［1］危难：尤指不断生死的危难。

284.男女间的爱欲若未根除，即使还剩少许，其心仍受束缚，像小牛离不开母牛一样。


༢༨༣༽ ལྗོན་པ་བཞག་ནས་ནགས་ཚལ་ཆོད། །ནགས་ཚལ་ལས་ནི་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱེ། །ནགས་དང་ལྗོན་གསར་བཅད་བྱས་ཏེ། །ཆགས་མེད་མཛོད་ཅིག་དགེ་སློང་དག །

༢༨༤༽ ཇི་སྲིད་མི་ནི་བུད་མེད་ལ། །ཆགས་པའི་ནགས་གསར་མ་བཅད་དབར། །དེ་ཡི་སེམས་ནི་འཆིང་བ་སྟེ། །འོ་འཐུང་བེའུས་མ་ལ་བཞིན། །




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You may choose your language. The five options are: Pali, English, Cantonese and Putonghua, Tibetan.

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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

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