自求多福的比丘 Sambahulabhikkhu Vatthu

 Sambahulabhikkhu Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 315

Nagaram yatha paccantam
guttam santarabahiram
evam gopetha attanam1
khano vo ma upaccaga
khanatita hi socanti
nirayamhi samappita.

Verse 315: As a border town is guarded both inside and outside, so guard yourself. Let not the right moment go by for those who miss this moment come to grief when they fall into niraya.

1. evam gopetha attanam: so guard yourself; i.e., to guard the internal as well as the external senses. The six internal senses (sense bases) are eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind; the six external senses (sense objects) are visible object, sound, odour, taste, touch and idea.

The Story of Many Bhikkhus

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (315) of this book, with reference to a group of bhikkhus who spent the vassa in a border town.

In the first month of their stay in that border town, the bhikkhus were well provided and well looked after by the townsfolk. During the next month the town was plundered by some robbers and some people were taken away as hostages. The people of the town, therefore, had to rehabilitate their town and reinforce fortifications. Thus, they were unable to look to the needs of the bhikkhus as much as they would like to and the bhikkhus had to fend for themselves. At the end of the vassa, those bhikkhus came to pay homage to the Buddha at the Jetavana monastery in Savatthi. On learning about the hardships they had undergone during the vassa, the Buddha said to them "Bhikkhus, do not keep thinking about this or anything else; it is always difficult to have a carefree, effortless living. Just as the townsfolk guard their town, so also, a bhikkhu should be on guard and keep his mind steadfastly on his body."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 315: As a border town is guarded both inside and outside, so guard yourself. Let not the right moment go by for those who miss this moment come to grief when they fall into niraya.

At the end of the discourse those bhikkhus attained arahatship.

自求多福的比丘


譬如邊境城市，內外都受到防護，人也應當如此護衛自己，不可糟蹋機會 (註)，糟蹋的人墮入地獄受苦。 (偈 315)


　　一群比丘到邊境的村落去結夏安居。第一個月，村民妥善照顧他們並且提供他們生活的必需品。但搶匪在第二個月的時候掠奪該村子，有些村民甚至被擄去當做人質。村民因此必須重建村子，保護自己，也就無法如願供養、照顧這群比丘。這群比丘只好自求多福了。

　　結夏安居結束後，他們回舍衛城的祇樹給孤獨園，去向佛陀頂禮問訊。他們也向佛陀報告說，由於村民的處境困難，所以，安居的後兩個月，他們過的相當艱辛。

　　佛陀告訴他們：「比丘們！想要擁有無憂無慮，輕輕鬆鬆的日子本來就很困難。一如村民要保護自己的村落，比丘要時時刻刻自我警惕，堅定地集中心念，努力修行。」


(註) 例如佛陀出現世間，與人共修，健康的身體，擁有正見等。


‧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། 15 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། །


22. Nirayavagga

Chapter Twenty Two  Hell

第二十二章  地獄（墮落）

ཉེར་གཉིས་པ་དམྱལ་བའི་ལེའུ།


315. Nagaraṃ yathā paccantaṃ, 

guttaṃ santarabāhiraṃ;

Evaṃ gopetha attānaṃ, 

khaṇo vo mā upaccagā;

Khaṇātītā hi socanti, 

nirayamhi samappitā.


315. Just as a border city is closely guarded both within and without, so guard yourself. Do not let slip this opportunity (for spiritual growth). For those who let slip this opportunity grieve indeed when consigned to hell.


315.要防護自己［1］，好像邊區城市，要內外倍加防護一樣；莫疏忽大意、 錯失當下良機，因為，墮落地獄時就後悔莫及了。

【註釋】

［1］防護自己：在六根與六塵接觸時，防止自己生起貪嗔癡等煩惱苦因。


315.要防护自己［1］，好像边区城市，要内外倍加防护一样；莫疏忽大意、 错失当下良机，因为，堕落地狱时就后悔莫及了。

【注释】

［1］防护自己：在六根与六尘接触时，防止自己生起贪嗔痴等烦恼苦因。


༣༡༥༽ དཔེར་ན་ས་མཚམས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱི། །ནང་དང་ཕྱི་ལ་སྲུང་བྱེད་པ། །དེ་ལྟར་རང་ཉིད་བསྲུང་བར་བྱ། །སྐབས་འདི་དོན་མེད་མི་བྱ་སྟེ། །གང་དག་དོན་མེད་བྱེད་པ་རྣམས། །དམྱལ་བར་ཚུད་དེ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལོ། །



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