空間距離不是問題 Culasubhadda Vatthu

Culasubhadda Vatthu  

Dhammapada Verse 304

Dure santo pakasenti
himavantova pabbato
asantettha na dissanti
rattim khitta yatha sara.

Verse 304: Like the Himalayas, the good are visible even from afar; like arrows shot in the night, the wicked are not seen even though they may be near.

The Story of Culasubhadda

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (304) of this book, with reference to Culasubhadda the daughter of Anathapindika.

Anathapindika and Ugga, the rich man from Ugga, studied under the same teacher when they were both young. Ugga had a son while Anathapindika had a daughter. When their children came of age, Ugga asked for the consent of Anathapindika to the marriage of their two children. So the marriage took place, and Culasubhaddi, the daughter of Anathapindika, had to stay in the house of her parents-in-law. Ugga and his family were followers of non-Buddhist ascetics. Sometimes, they would invite those non-Buddhist ascetics to their house. On such occasions, her parents-in-law would ask Culasubhadda to pay respect to those naked ascetics, but she always refused to comply. Instead, she told her mother-in-law about the Buddha and his unique qualities.

The mother-in-law of Culasubhadda was very anxious to see the Buddha when she was told about him by her daughter-in-law. She even agreed to let Culasubhaddha invite the Buddha for alms-food to their house. So, Culasubhadda prepared food and collected other offerings for the Buddha and his disciples. She then went up to the upper part of the house and looking towards the Jetavana monastery, she made offerings of flowers and incense and contemplate the unique qualities and virtues of the Buddha. She then spoke out her wish, "Venerable Sir! May it please you to come with your disciples, to our house tomorrow. I, your devoted lay-disciple, most respectfully invite you. May this invitation of mine be made known to you by this symbol and gesture." Then she took eight fistfuls of jasmin and threw them up into the sky. The flowers floated through the air all the way to the Jetavana monastery and lay hanging from the ceiling of the congregation hall where the Buddha was expounding the Dhamma.

At the end of the discourse, Anathapindika, the father of Culasubhadda, approached the Buddha to invite him to have alms-food in his house the following day. But the Buddha replied that he had already accepted Culasubhadda's invitation for the next day.

Anathapindika was puzzled at the reply of the Buddha and said,"But, Venerable Sir! Culasubhadda does not live here in Savatthi; she lives in Ugga at a distance of one hundred and twenty yojanas from here." To him the Buddha said, "True, householder, but the good are clearly visible as if they are in one's very presence even though they may be living at a distance".

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 304: Like the Himalayas, the good are visible even from afar; like arrows shot in the night, the wicked are not seen even though they may be near.

The next day, the Buddha came to the house of Ugga, the father-in-law of Culasubhadda. The Buddha was accompanied by five hundred bhikkhus on this trip; they all came through the air in decorated floats created by the order of Sakka, king of the devas. Seeing the Buddha in his splendour and glory, the parents-in-law of Culasubhadda were very much impressed and they paid homage to the Buddha. Then, for the next seven days, Ugga, and his family gave alms-food and made other offerings to the Buddha and his disciples.

空間距離不是問題


善良的人如喜馬拉雅山，即使身在遠方，但聲譽到處傳播；邪惡的人如夜晚射箭，雖然近在咫尺，別人卻視若不見。


　　給孤獨長者和郁瞿婁年輕時，同在一位老師門下受教。郁瞿婁有位兒子，給孤獨長者有一位女兒。當兒女成年後，郁瞿婁就向給孤獨長者請求讓這對小兒女成親。結婚之後，給孤獨長者的女兒脩摩迦提就住在夫家，但郁瞿婁一家人對佛法毫無好感。有時候，他們甚至邀請裸形外道到家中來，每次脩摩迦提的公公都會要求她一齊向這些裸形外道禮敬。但由於害羞和不習慣見裸形外道，她都加以拒絕。相反地，他告訴婆婆有關佛陀和他的殊勝。

　　她的婆婆聽到脩摩迦提敘說種種佛陀的事後，急於想見佛陀，所以就允准她邀請佛陀前來家裡，接受供養。她就開始準備食物和其它供養品，一切就緒後，她爬到樓上去，面向祇樹給孤獨園，備妥鮮花，焚香，心中同時觀想著佛陀的殊勝德行，然後說出自己的願望：「世尊！我誠懇地邀請您和眾多比丘明日前來應供。願佛陀知道我的邀請。」

　　這時候，給孤獨長者在祇樹給孤獨園請佛陀於第二天至他家接受供養，但佛陀回答說，他已經答應脩摩迦提，明日將接受她的供養。給孤獨長者十分困惑地對佛陀說：「但，世尊！她並不住在舍衛城，而住在很遙遠的地方！」

　　「不錯，但善良的人雖然在遙遠的地方，卻像身邊的人一樣為人所察知！」佛陀如是回答。

　　第二天，佛陀和比丘們到郁瞿婁的家去接受供養。郁瞿婁夫婦對佛陀的殊勝和莊嚴，十分感動，就向佛陀頂禮問訊。供養完後，佛陀為他們說法。從那天起，郁瞿婁一家人都成為佛陀堅定的信徒。


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། །


21. Pakiṇṇakavaggo

Chapter Twenty One  Miscellaneous 

第二十一章 雜類

ཉེར་གཅིག་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ལེའུ།


304. Dūre santo pakāsenti, 

himavantova pabbato;

Asantettha na dissanti, 

rattiṃ khittā yathā sarā.


304. The good shine from afar, like the Himalaya mountains. But the wicked are unseen, like arrows shot in the night.


304.善人像喜瑪拉雅山一樣，雖在遠處亦顯而易見；惡人則如在黑夜射箭，雖在近處亦視而不見。［1］

【註釋】

［1］全句喻善人出眾，為人重視﹔惡人則為人所輕視與忽略。


304.善人像喜玛拉雅山一样，虽在远处亦显而易见；恶人则如在黑夜射箭，虽在近处亦视而不见。［1］

【注释】

［1］全句喻善人出众，为人重视﹔恶人则为人所轻视与忽略。


༣༠༤༽ ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡི་རི་བཞིན་དུ། །ལེགས་པ་རྒྱང་ནས་གསལ་ཞིང་འཚེར། །ངན་པ་མཚན་མོར་མདའ་འཕང་བཞིན། །མཐོང་བར་འགྱུར་བ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །







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ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་པཱ་ལཱའི་སྐད་དམ་དབྱིན་སྐད་དམ་ཧོང་ཀོང་གི་སྐད་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དང་བོད་སྐད་ལྔ་པོ་དེ་ལ་གང་རུང་འདམ་ཆོག


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