兒女不是究竟的依止(註)Patacara Vatthu

 Patacara Vatthu 




Dhammapada Verses 288 and 289

Na santi putta tanaya
na pita napi bandhava
antakena' dhipannassa
natthi natisu tanata.

Etamatthavasam natva
pandito silasamvuto
nibbanagamanam maggam
khippameva visodhaye.

Verse 288: Not sons, nor parents, nor close relatives can protect one assailed by Death; indeed, neither kith nor kin can give protection.

Verse 289: Knowing this, the wise man restrained by morality should quickly clear (the obstacles to) the Path leading to Nibbana.

The Story of Patacara*

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (288) and (289) of this book, with reference to Patacara, the daughter of a rich man from Savatthi.

As Patacara had lost her husband and her two sons, as well as her parents and three brothers almost at the same time, she was driven to near insanity. When she approached the Buddha, he said to her, "Patacara, sons and daughters cannot look after you; so even if they are alive they do not exist for you. The wise man observes morality (sila) and clears (the obstacles to) the Path leading to Nibbana."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 288: Not sons, nor parents, nor close relatives can protect one assailed by Death; indeed, neither kith nor kin can give protection.

 

Verse 289: Knowing this, the wise man restrained by morality should quickly clear (the obstacles to) the Path leading to Nibbana.

At the end of the discourse Patacara attained Sotapatti Fruition.

* This story has been given in Verse 113, Chapter VIII - Story No. 12.

End of Chapter Twenty: The Path

兒女不是究竟的依止(註)


父子親戚都無法救護！面臨死亡的時候，父子親戚都無法加以救護。(偈 288)

明白此一實相的持戒智者，儘速修築通往涅槃的正道。(偈 289)


　　波她卡娜失去丈夫，兩個兒子，父母和唯一的哥哥後，機乎發瘋。當她親近佛陀時 ，佛陀告訴她：「波她卡娜！兒女無法照顧妳的！即使妳的一對兒子仍然健在，他們也 不是為妳而存在的。有智慧的人遵守戒律，掃除證入涅槃的一切障礙。

　　波她卡娜因為佛陀的婉言相勸而克服她的哀愁。

註：全文請參考：「家破人亡的波她卡娜」



家破人亡的波她卡娜


若長命百歲，但不知世事生滅的實相，不如如實知見生滅法的一天。


　　波她卡娜是舍衛城中一位富翁的女兒，十分美麗，父母又對她愛護有加。但她卻愛上家裡的一位男僕，和他私奔到離舍衛城很遠的一個村子去。後來，她懷孕了，當分娩日子快到的時候，她好幾次請求丈夫允許她回家生產，但她丈夫每次都害怕遭到他丈人的毒打而拒絕她的懇請。有一天，她趁丈夫不在家的時候，悄悄出發回娘家去。但是，她丈夫卻追上她，請她回家去，但她加以拒絕。這時候，她分娩的時刻到了，就在附近的草叢中產下一子，然後與丈夫一起回家。

　　她再度懷孕的時候，也希望回家生產，但丈夫也加以拒絕。產期快到了，她只好又悄悄地帶著大兒子，出發回舍衛城的娘家。當丈夫追上她時，她產前劇痛加速，即將分娩，這時候天又下著大雨，丈夫急忙去找了個較穩當的地方。當他正在整理場地時，卻被一條劇毒的蛇咬到，當場死亡。這時候，波她卡娜已經生下孩子。第二天，她四處尋找丈夫，卻發現丈夫的屍首，她內心非常悲傷，認為丈夫的死都是自己害的，而十分內疚，就繼續回舍衛城找父母。

　　但由於下了一整夜的雨，溪水上漲，她無法一次帶二個兒子過河，就把大兒子安置在河這岸，先帶初生嬰兒渡河，並且把他放在對岸，然後自己再渡河折返這岸。當她正在河中央時，一隻在嬰兒上空盤旋的老鷹，以為嬰兒是塊肉，波她卡娜急忙大聲嘶喊，想嚇走老鷹，但老鷹仍然俯衝直下，奪走她的嬰兒。而在這岸的大兒子聽見母親在河中喊叫，以為母親在叫他，就自行邁向河中，但不幸地被強烈的河水沖走。波她卡娜一天之內喪夫又連喪二子。

　　她放聲慟哭：「小兒子被老鷹奪走，大兒子被河水沖走，丈夫被毒蛇咬死。」然後她遇見一位來自舍衛城的人，她淚眼盈眶的打聽她父母的消息，這人告訴她，昨晚的暴雨使她父母的房子全部倒塌，她父母和唯一的哥哥全部罹難，並且已經火化了。聽到這悲慘的消息，她徹徹底底地崩潰，完全瘋了。甚至不知道身上的衣服已經掉落地上，身子半裸，仍然滿街狂奔，嘶聲哭喊：「可憐的我啊！老天啊！」

　　這時候，正在祇樹給孤獨園講經說法的佛陀看見她在外面，就運用神通使她前來加入聽法大眾中。當人群看見她走過來時卻想阻止她前進：「不要讓這瘋女人進來！」但佛陀制止他們。當她走到可以聽見佛陀說話的距離時，佛陀告訴她控制自己的心念，使心平穩下來，等她回神過來，才驀然察覺自己的裙子不見了，就安靜的蹲下來，並接下別人遞來的一布塊，遮掩自己。她接著向佛陀訴說她不幸的遭遇─兩個兒子、丈夫、父母和唯一的兄弟全都罹難的經過。

　　佛陀安慰她：「波她卡娜，不要恐懼！你已經安止於一位可以真正保護並指引你的人了，在過往的生死輪迴中，你為兒子、丈夫、父母、兄弟所流過的眼淚已經夠多了。」佛陀進一步向她說《無始相應經》（此經討論無窮盡的生死輪迴）， 這時候她如釋重擔而漸漸平穩下來，佛陀又說，人不應該過度擔憂逝世的人，反而應該清淨自己，精進努力，俾能證入涅槃。聽完佛陀的說法後，波她卡娜明白生命的無常，而對可以引領人們解脫生死輪迴的佛法建立信心。

　　從此以後，她就出家為比丘尼。有一天，她用壺中水洗腳，當她第一次潑水時，水只向前流了一下子就消失了；她第二次潑水時，水比第一次的時候更往前流動了一段距離，才消失不見；而第三次潑出去的水流動的距離更長，當她看著這三次的潑水所造成不同的流動情形時，恍然明白眾生生命的三個階段（前世、今生、來世）。這時候，在祇樹給孤獨園的佛陀透過神通，知道她的想法，便放光，告誡她：「波她卡娜，妳的想法正確，妳已經確實明白五蘊的實相了，如果有人長命百歲，但卻不明白五蘊無常，苦、空的道理，也是枉費一生的。」波她卡娜不久就證得阿羅漢果。


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著


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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།


288. Na santi puttā tāṇāya, 

na pitā nāpi bandhavā;

Antakenādhipannassa, 

natthi ñātīsu tāṇatā.

289. Etamatthavasaṃ ñatvā, 

paṇḍito sīlasaṃvuto;

Nibbānagamanaṃ maggaṃ, 

khippameva visodhaye.


288. For him who is assailed by death there is no protection by kinsmen. None there are to save him — no sons, nor father, nor relatives.

289. Realizing this fact, let the wise man, restrained by morality, hasten to clear the path leading to Nibbana.


288.死之將至，縱有父母、兒女、或親戚在旁，也不能挽救；的確，無親屬能救人於死。

289.知道這個道理後，持戒的智者，應趕快清除道上的障礙，直至涅槃為止。


288.死之将至，纵有父母、儿女、或亲戚在旁，也不能挽救；的确，无亲属能救人于死。

289.知道这个道理后，持戒的智者，应赶快清除道上的障碍，直至涅槃为止。


༢༨༨༽ འཆི་བས་བརྒོལ་བའི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ལ། །གཉེན་གྱི་སྐྱབས་ནི་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན། །བུ་དང་ཕ་དང་གཉེན་འབྲེལ་རྣམས། །དེ་ལ་སྐྱོབ་ཕྱིར་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །

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