只有知識，但不能加以領悟是沒有用的 Potthilatthera Vatthu

 Potthilatthera Vatthu


Dhammapada Verse 282

Yoga ve jayati bhuri
ayoga bhurisankhayo
etam dvedhapatham natva
bhavaya vibhavaya ca
tatha ttanam niveseyya
yatha bhuri pavaddhati.

Verse 282: Indeed, wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost. Knowing this twofold path of gain and loss of wisdom, one should conduct oneself so that wisdom may increase.

The Story of Thera Potthila

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (282) of this book, with reference to Thera Potthila.

Potthila was a senior bhikkhu who knew the Pitaka well and was actually teaching the Dhamma to five hundred bhikkhus. Because he knew the Pitaka, he was also very conceited. The Buddha knew his weakness and wanted him to mend his ways and put him on the right path. So, whenever Potthila came to pay obeisance, the Buddha would address him as 'Useless Potthila'. When Potthila heard these remarks, he pondered over those words of the Buddha and came to realize that the Buddha had made those unkind remarks because he, Potthila, had not made any serious effort to practise meditation and had not achieved any of the Maggas or even any level of mental absorption (jhana).

Thus, without telling anyone Thera Potthila left for a monastery at a place twenty yojanas away from the Jetavana monastery. At that monastery there were thirty bhikkhus. First, he went to the most senior bhikkhu and humbly requested him to be his mentor; but the thera, wishing to humble him, asked him to go to the next senior bhikkhu, who in his turn sent him on to the next. In this way, he was sent from one to the other until he came to a seven year old arahat samanera. The young samanera accepted him as a pupil only after ascertaining that Potthila would obediently follow his instructions. As instructed by the samanera, Thera Potthila kept his mind firmly fixed on the true nature of the body; he was very ardent and vigilant in his meditation.

The Buddha saw Potthila in his vision and through supernormal power made Potthila feel his presence and encouraged him to be steadfast and ardent.

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 282: Indeed, wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost. Knowing this twofold path of gain and loss of wisdom, one should conduct oneself so that wisdom may increase.

At the end of the discourse Potthila attained arahatship.

只有知識，但不能加以領悟是沒有用的


定中生慧，無定則慧減， 明白這種道理的人，應該自行努力，以增長定慧。 (偈282)


　　波思拉是一資深的比丘，不僅深深理解佛法，並且教導比丘佛法，但也因此十分貢 高、自負。佛陀清楚他的弱點，希望加以改正，引導他走上修行的正道，所以每當波思 拉比丘來頂禮問訊時，佛陀就稱呼他：「無用的波思拉比丘！」幾次聽到佛陀如此稱呼 自己時，他仔細思考其中的含意，終於了解佛陀所以如此稱呼，是因為自己雖然對佛法 具有廣泛的知識，卻不曾認真精進禪修，所以未能證得聖果，連初禪也沒有。

　　因此，他在未知會任何人的情況下就離開了，前往非常遙遠的舍衛城外一處有眾多 比丘的精舍。他首先去見最資深的比丘，並謙卑地請他擔任自己的導師，但這比丘為了 使波思拉能真正謙卑，就要波思拉去請求第二資深的比丘擔任導師。他就去見第二位比 丘，但第二位比丘也同樣告訴他去見另一較資淺的比丘。他於是輾轉來到一位年輕的阿 羅漢沙彌處，最後這沙彌在確定波思拉比丘會敬謹接受教導後，才答應擔任波思拉比丘 的導師。在這沙彌的指導下，波思拉比丘收攝心念，如實觀身，精進禪修 。

　　佛陀透過神通知道波思拉比丘正在精進禪修，就放光，勸誡他要堅定，努力精進， 發展更高的心靈境界。不久，波思拉比丘就證得阿羅漢果。


‧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།


282. Yogā ve jāyatī bhūri, 

ayogā bhūrisaṅkhayo;

Etaṃ dvedhāpathaṃ ñatvā, 

bhavāya vibhavāya ca;

Tathāttānaṃ niveseyya, 

yathā bhūri pavaḍḍhati.


282. Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase.


282.智慧的確生於止觀，若無止觀，智慧即會消失；既悉智慧消長之道， 就應引導自己實踐，令智慧不斷增長啊！


282.智慧的确生于止观，若无止观，智慧即会消失；既悉智慧消长之道， 就应引导自己实践，令智慧不断增长啊！


༢༨༢༽ སྒོམ་པ་ལས་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་སྐྱེ། །སྒོམ་པ་མེད་ན་ཤེས་རབ་ཉམས། །འཕེལ་གྲིབ་ལམ་འདི་ཤེས་བྱས་ཏེ། །གང་ཞིག་ཤེས་རབ་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱ། །





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