美色是膚淺的 Khematheri Vatthu

Khematheri Vatthu  



Dhammapada Verse 347 

Ye ragaratt'nupatanti sotam
sayamkatam makkatakova jalam
etampi chetvana vajanti dhira
anapekkhino sabbadukkham pahaya.

Verse 347: Beings who are infatuated with lust, fall back into the Stream of Craving they have generated, just as a spider does in the web it has spun. The Wise, cutting off the bond of craving, walk on resolutely, leaving, all ills (dukkha) behind.

The Story of Theri Khema

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (347) of this book, with reference to Queen Khema.

Queen Khema was the chief queen of King Bimbisara. She was very beautiful and also very proud.

The king wanted her to go to the Veluvana monastery and pay homage to the Buddha. But she had heard that the Buddha always talked disparagingly about beauty and she therefore tried to avoid seeing the Buddha.

The king understood her attitude towards the Buddha; he also know how proud she was of her beauty. So the king ordered his minstrels to sing in praise of the Veluvana monastery, about its pleasant and peaceful atmosphere, etc. Hearing them, Queen Khema became interested and decided to set out for the Veluvana monastery.

When Queen Khema arrived at the monastery, the Buddha was expounding the Dhamma to an audience. By his supernormal power, the Buddha made a very beautiful young lady appear, sitting not far from him, and fanning him. When Queen Khema came to the audience hall, she alone saw the beautiful young lady. Comparing the exquisite beauty of the young lady to that of her own, Khema realised that her beauty was much inferior to that of the young lady. As she looked again intently at the young lady her beauty began to fade gradually. In the end, she saw before her eyes an old decrepit being, which again changed into a corpse, her stinking body being attacked by maggots. At that instant, Queen Khema realized the impermanence and worthlessness of beauty.

The Buddha knowing the state of her mind remarked, "O Khema! Look carefully at this decaying body which is built around a skeleton of bones and is subject to disease and decay. Look carefully at the body which is thought of so highly by the foolish. Look at the worthlessness of the beauty of this young girl." After hearing this, Queen Khema attained Sotapatti Fruition.

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 347: Beings who are infatuated with lust, fall back into the Stream of Craving they have generated, just as a spider does in the web it has spun. The Wise, cutting off the bond of craving, walk on resolutely, leaving, all ills (dukkha) behind.

At the end of the discourse Queen Khema attained arahatship and was admitted to the Order and became the Chief Female Disciple of the Buddha.

美色是膚淺的


耽溺愛欲的人，無法自拔，如同結網自陷的蜘蛛；智者斷除貪欲，堅定出離，解脫一切苦。(偈 347)


　　讖摩皇后是頻婆裟羅王的皇后，人長得非常美麗，但也十分驕傲。國王希望她去精舍向佛陀頂禮問訊，但她聽聞佛陀經常說美貌不足取，所以儘量避著佛陀。國王明白她的心念，也知道她對自己的美貌十分驕傲，就命令宮廷樂師唱歌讚誦竹林精舍的一切，包括它愉快祥和的氣氛等，聽完之後，她深感興趣，決定一探究竟。

　　她抵達精舍的聽眾廳時，正在講經說法的佛陀運用神通，變現一位極端美麗的年輕女子在身邊，為佛陀搧風。這年輕女子天仙般的容顏讓皇后覺得自己實在無法相比。但是當她再度注視時，發現那女子的美貌漸漸衰老，最後，竟變成老太婆，然後逝世，屍首長出蛆蟲來。剎那間，她明白了美貌的無常。

　　佛陀明白讖摩的心態，就告誡她：「讖摩！仔細觀察這會腐壞的肉身不過是架構在一堆骨頭上，它會生病、衰老。正念觀身吧！愚癡的人過度高估肉體了。請察覺年輕貌美是沒有什麼價值的。」讖摩精進奉行佛陀的教誨之後，就證得阿漢果。她也出家為比丘尼，佛陀更稱讚她是第一比丘尼。


註：請參考故事「年輕沙彌的修行成就」

　　後續故事請參考：「佛陀稱讚讖摩比丘尼」


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Dhammapada

《法句經》

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


24. Taṇhāvagga

Chapter Twenty Four  Craving

第二十四章 愛欲

ཉེར་བཞི་པ་སྲེད་པའི་ལེའུ། 


347. Ye rāgarattānupatanti sotaṃ,

sayaṃkataṃ makkaṭakova jālaṃ;

Etampi chetvāna vajanti dhīrā, 

anapekkhino sabbadukkhaṃ pahāya.


347. Those who are lust-infatuated fall back into the swirling current (of samsara) like a spider on its self-spun web. This, too, the wise cut off. Without any longing, they abandon all suffering and renounce the world.


347.迷戀愛欲的人，重複墮入自造的愛河，如造網自投的蜘蛛一樣﹔智者則斬斷愛欲束縛，堅走離欲之道，把苦惱拋諸腦後。


347.迷恋爱欲的人，重复堕入自造的爱河，如造网自投的蜘蛛一样﹔智者则斩断爱欲束缚，坚走离欲之道，把苦恼抛诸脑后。


༣༤༧༽ གང་དག་ཆགས་པས་རྨོངས་པ་རྣམས། །སླར་ཡང་འཁོར་བའི་རྒྱུན་དུ་ལྷུང་། །དཔེར་ན་སྲིན་བུ་སྡོམ་གྱིས་ནི། །སླས་པའི་དྲྭ་བར་རང་ཉིད་ཚུད་། །འདི་ཡང་བཅད་ནས་ལྟོས་མེད་པར། །མཁས་པས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྤངས། །


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