觀想蓮花 Suvannakaratthera Vatthu

Suvannakaratthera Vatthu


Dhammapada Verse 285

Ucchinda sinehamattano
kumudam saradikamva panina
santimaggameva1 bruhaya
Nibbanam sugatena desitam.

Verse 285: Cut off your craving as one plucks an autumn lily with the hand. Nibbana has been expounded on by the Buddha; cultivate that Path which leads to it.

1. santimaggam: the Path that leads to Nibbana, i.e. the Path with Eight Constituents.

The Story of a Thera who had been a Goldsmith

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (285) of this book, with reference to a bhikkhu, a pupil of Thera Sariputta.

Once, a young, handsome son of a goldsmith was admitted into the Order by Thera Sariputta. The young bhikkhu was given loathsomeness of the dead body as the subject of meditation by Thera Sariputta. After taking the subject of meditation he left for the forest and practised meditation there; but he made very little progress. So he returned twice to Thera Sariputta for further instructions. Still, he made no progress. So Thera Sariputta took the young bhikkhu to the Buddha, and related everything about the young bhikkhu.

The Buddha knew that the young bhikkhu was the son of a goldsmith, and also that he had been born in the family of goldsmiths during his past five hundred existences. Therefore the Buddha changed the subject of meditation for the young bhikkhu; instead of loathsomeness, he was instructed to meditate on pleasantness. With his supernormal power, the Buddha created a beautiful lotus flower as big as a cart-wheel and told the young bhikkhu to stick it on the mound of sand just outside the monastery. The young bhikkhu, concentrating on the big, beautiful, fragrant lotus flower, was able to get rid of the hindrances. He was filled with delightful satisfaction (piti), and step by step he progressed until he reached as far as the fourth level of mental absorption (jhana).

The Buddha saw him from his perfumed chamber and with his supernormal power made the flower wither instantly. Seeing the flower wither and change its colour, the bhikkhu perceived the impermanent nature of the flower and of all other things and beings. That led to the realization of the impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and the insubstantiality of all conditioned things. At that instant, the Buddha sent forth his radiance and appeared as if in person to the young bhikkhu and instructed him to get rid of craving (tanha).

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 285: Cut off your craving as one plucks an autumn lily with the hand. Nibbana has been expounded on by the Buddha; cultivate that Path which leads to it.

At the end of the discourse the young bhikkhu attained arahatship. 


觀想蓮花


斷除貪愛，如同摘秋天的百合花；勤修聖者（佛陀）所說，可以引領人走上寂靜涅槃的正道。 (偈285)


　　從前有一金匠的年輕兒子在舍利弗的引領下出家，加入僧伽。他在得到舍利弗給他“觀身不淨”的觀想題目後，就到林子裡去禪修，但卻絲毫沒有進步。他因此兩次回去找舍利弗，請舍利弗進一步指導，但仍然沒有起色。最後，舍利弗只好與他一齊去見佛陀。

　　佛陀知道年輕比丘是金匠的兒子，過去幾世也都是金匠的兒子，因此另外給他觀想的題目。佛陀不要他觀想厭惡的事情，反而要他從愉快的感覺開始觀想。佛陀運用神通力量，創造一朵美麗的蓮花，並且要年輕比丘把蓮花種在精舍外面的土堆中。

　　年輕比丘開始集中心念在這朵又大又香的蓮花上，終於除去障礙，內心充滿法喜，禪修也漸漸有進步，最後並且證得四禪。

　　這時候，佛陀又運用神通，使蓮花瞬間枯萎。年輕的比丘看見蓮花瞬間枯萎，花色不再鮮活亮麗，終於明白蓮花和一切因緣和合的事物一樣，都是無常的。他因此更進一步了解苦、空、無我的究竟真理。這時候，佛陀再度放光，告誡他要去除貪愛。年輕比丘也正念現前，如法奉行佛陀的教誨，終於證得阿羅漢果。


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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།


285. Ucchinda sinehamattano 

kumudaṃ sāradikaṃ'va pāṇinā;

Santimaggameva brūhaya,

nibbāṇaṃ sugatena desitaṃ.


285. Cut off your affection in the manner of a man who plucks with his hand an autumn lotus. Cultivate only the path to peace, Nibbana, as made known by the Exalted One.


285.像拔起秋天的百合花一樣斷除愛欲吧！涅槃之道已由佛陀闡釋了，勤修此道吧！它可令愛欲斷除的。


285.像拔起秋天的百合花一样断除爱欲吧！涅槃之道已由佛陀阐释了，勤修此道吧！它可令爱欲断除的。


༢༨༥༽ གང་ཞིག་ལག་པས་སྟོན་ཀའི་པདྨ་ནི། །གཅོད་ལྟར་རང་གི་གཅེས་འཛིན་གཅད་པར་བྱ། །བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པས་བསྟན་པའི་ལམ་དེ་རང་། །མྱང་འདས་ཞི་བར་ཕྱོགས་པ་ཉམས་སུ་ལོངས། །




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