沉默不代表智慧 Titthiya Vatthu

 Titthiya Vatthu 


Dhammapada Verses 268 and 269

Na monena muni hotimulharupo aviddasu
yo ca tulamva paggayha
varama1 daya pandito.

Papani parivajjeti
sa muni tena so muni
yo munati ubho loke2
"muni" tena pavuccati.

Verses 268 & 269: Not by silence does one become a muni, if one is dull and ignorant. Like one holding a pair of scales, the wise one takes what is good and rejects what is evil. For this reason he is a muni. He who understands both internal and external aggregates is also, for that reason, called a muni.

1. varam: the best, the good, the noble. In this context, it means morality (sila), concentration (samadhi) and knowledge (panna), etc. (The Commentary)

2. ubho loke: lit., both worlds, meaning internal and external aggregates, or one's own aggregates as well as those of others.

The Story of the Followers of Non-Buddhist Doctrines

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (268) and (269) of this book, with reference to some non-Buddhist ascetics.

To those who offered them food or other things, those ascetics would say words of blessing. They would say, "May you be free from danger, may you prosper and get rich, may you live long," etc. At that time, the followers of the Buddha did not say anything after receiving something from their lay-disciples. This was because during the first twenty years after the Buddha's attainment of Buddhahood they were instructed to remain silent on receiving offerings. Since the followers of the Buddha were silent when ascetics of other doctrines were saying things which were pleasing to their disciples, people began to compare the two groups.

When the Buddha heard about this, he permitted the bhikkhus to say words of blessing to their disciples after receiving offerings. As a result of that, more and more people invited the followers of the Buddha for alms. Then, the ascetics of other doctrines remarked with disdain: "We adhere to the practice of the muni and keep silent, whereas the followers of Samana Gotama go about talking exuberantly in the eating places." On hearing those disparaging remarks, the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! There are some who keep silent because they are ignorant and timid, and some who keep silent because they do not want to share their profound knowledge with others. Only one who has overcome evil is to be called a muni."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verses 268 & 269: Not by silence does one become a muni, if one is dull and ignorant. Like one holding a pair of scales, the wise one takes what is good and rejects what is evil. For this reason he is a muni. He who understands both internal and external aggregates is also, for that reason, called a muni.

沉默不代表智慧


愚癡無明的人雖然默默不語，仍然不是牟尼(智者)，智者如同手拿天平的人，受持善法而捨棄惡法，是真正的智者。也因此，是明瞭內外五蘊的智者。 (偈268-269)


　　一些不是佛陀信徒的苦行者在接受供養後，會對布施者說些賜福的話，如：「願你們遠離危險，祝你們興旺，財源滾滾來，願你們長命百歲。」相反地，佛陀的弟子比丘們在接受供養之後，卻默默不語。這是因為佛陀證悟以後的前二十年，要他們如此的。 當時的人就加以比較：「苦行者祝福我們，而敬愛的比丘卻什麼也沒說。」

　　很多比丘向佛陀反應這件事，佛陀從此要所有的比丘在接受信徒的供養之後，也要說一些適如其分的祝福。從此以後，大眾在供養之後，也能夠聽到比丘們適當的祝福，而心滿意足，並且建立信心。但另有其他的苦行者則譏諷地說：「我們嚴格遵守牟尼的傳統，保持沉默，而沙門喬達摩的弟子則在公眾場合講說法義。」

　　聽到這種蔑視的話後，佛陀說：「比丘們！有些人沉默不語是由於無明和膽怯，有些人則是不願意和別人分享深奧的知識。只知保持沉默的人不是牟尼，只有克服惡業的人才是牟尼。」


‧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། །


19.Dhammaṭṭhavagga

Chapter Nineteen  The Just

第十九章   安住真理的人

བཅུ་དགུ་པ་དྲང་པོའི་ལེའུ། 


268. Na monena munī hoti, 

mūḷharūpo aviddasu;

Yo ca tulaṃva paggayha, 

varamādāya paṇḍito.

269. Pāpāni parivajjeti, 

sa munī tena so muni;

Yo munāti ubho loke, 

“muni’’ tena pavuccati.


268. Not by observing silence does one become a sage, if he be foolish and ignorant. But that man is wise who, as if holding a balance-scale accepts only the good.

269. The sage (thus) rejecting the evil, is truly a sage. Since he comprehends both (present and future) worlds, he is called a sage.


268.無知的愚人，雖能沉默不語，也不算是牟尼［1］，真的智者如持秤人， 懂得權衡輕重，捨惡從善。

269.能洞悉內五蘊與外五蘊的人，亦可稱為牟尼。

【註釋】

［1］牟尼：沉默的智者。


268.无知的愚人，虽能沉默不语，也不算是牟尼［1］，真的智者如持秤人， 懂得权衡轻重，舍恶从善。

269.能洞悉内五蕴与外五蕴的人，亦可称为牟尼。

【注释】

［1］牟尼：沉默的智者。


༢༦༨༽ གལ་ཏེ་བླུན་ཞིང་རྨོངས་ན་ནི། །ངག་བཅད་ཙམ་གྱིས་དྲང་སྲོང་མིན། །འོན་ཀྱང་ལེགས་པ་ཁོ་ན་དག །སྲང་བཞིན་ལེན་ན་མཁས་པ་ཡིན། །

༢༦༩༽ སྡིག་པ་སྤོང་བའི་དྲང་སྲོང་ནི། །བདེན་པར་དྲང་སྲོང་བྱ་བ་སྟེ། །འཇིག་རྟེན་གཉིས་ཀ་མཁྱེན་པས་ན། །དེ་ལ་དྲང་སྲོང་བརྗོད་པ་ཡིན། །




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