隨著鼓聲起舞的老象 Paveyyakahatthi Vatthu

 Paveyyakahatthi Vatthu 




Dhammapada Verse 327

Appamadarata hotha
sacittamanurakkhatha
dugga uddharath' attanam
panke sannova kunjaro.

Verse 327: Take delight in mindfulness, guard your mind well. As an elephant stuck in mire pulls itself out, so also, pull yourself out of the mire of moral defilements.

The Story of the Elephant Called Paveyyaka

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (327) of this book, with reference to the elephant, called Paveyyaka.

Paveyyaka when young was very strong; in due course, he became old and decrepit. One day, as old Paveyyaka went into a pond he was stuck in the mire and could not get on to the shore. When King Pasenadi of Kosala was told about it, he sent an elephant trainer to help the elephant get out of the mire. The elephant trainer went to the site where the elephant was. There, he made the musicians strike up a martial tune. Hearing the military airs, the elephant felt as if he were in a battlefield; his spirits rose, he pulled himself with all his might, and was soon out of the mire.

When the bhikkhus told the Buddha about this he said, "Bhikkhus! Just as that elephant pulled itself out of the mire, so also, must you all pull yourselves out of the mire of moral defilements."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 327: Take delight in mindfulness, guard your mind well. As an elephant stuck in mire pulls itself out, so also, pull yourself out of the mire of moral defilements.

At the end of the discourse the bhikkhus attained arahatship.

隨著鼓聲起舞的老象


人應該歡喜正念現前，並且妥善護衛自心；如同象自力脫離沼泥，修行的人也應自力脫離煩惱的陷阱。 (偈327)


　　大象波梨耶年輕的時候非常強壯，但老了以後，卻衰弱不堪。有一天，它走到池塘時，陷在泥淖中，無法脫困。國王知道這件事後，就派一位馴象師去幫助它。馴象師抵達波梨耶陷身的地方時，就要人吹奏戰鼓。波梨耶聽見戰鼓聲時，覺得自己似乎又回到戰場了，精神為之大振，而一鼓作氣，脫離困境。

　　佛陀以波梨耶的故事告誡眾多比丘：「比丘，一如波梨耶自行脫困，你們也要自行從精神的煩惱中解脫出來。」


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著


Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 23 December 2020




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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3)


Dhammapada

《法句經》

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


23. Nāgavagga

Chapter Twenty Three    The Elephant

第二十三章 象

ཉེར་གསུམ་པ་གླང་པོའི་ལེའུ།


327. Appamādaratā hotha,

sacittamanurakkhatha;

Duggā uddharathattānaṃ, 

paṅke sannova kuñjaro.


327. Delight in heedfulness. Guard well your thoughts. Draw yourself out of this bog of evil, even as an elephant draws himself out of the mud.


327.應樂於不放逸，時刻防護自心。如陷於泥沼的大象，會盡力抽身而出一樣，陷於煩惱泥沼中的你，亦應奮力抽身而出。


327.应乐于不放逸，时刻防护自心。如陷于泥沼的大象，会尽力抽身而出一样，陷于烦恼泥沼中的你，亦应奋力抽身而出。


༣༢༧༽ བག་ཡོད་ལ་ནི་དགའ་བར་བྱ། །རང་གི་བསམ་པ་བསྲུང་བར་བྱ། །གླང་ཆེན་འདམ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་བཞིན། །སྡིག་པའི་འདམ་ལས་དབྱུང་བར་བྱ། །


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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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