照顧佛陀的大象 Sambahulabhikkhu Vatthu

Sambahulabhikkhu Vatthu  


Dhammapada Verses 328, 329 and 330 

Sace labhetha nipakam sahayam
saddhim caram sadhu vihari dhiram
abhibhuyya sabbani parissayani
careyya tena' ttamano satima.

No ce labhetha nipakam sahayam
saddhim caram sadhu vihari dhiram
rajava rattham vijitam pahaya
eko care matanga' ranneva nago.

Ekassa caritam seyyo
natthi bale sahayata
eko care na ca papani kayira
appossukko matanga' ranneva nago.

Verse 328: If one finds a sagacious friend, who is a virtuous and steadfast companion, one should live with him joyfully and mindfully, overcoming all dangers.

Verse 329: If one cannot find a sagacious friend, who is a virtuous and steadfast companion, one should live alone like the king who gave up and left the country he had won, and like the elephant Matanga roaming alone in the forest.

Verse 330: It is better to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. So one should live alone, do no evil, and be carefree like the elephant Matanga roaming alone in the forest.

The Story of a Number of Bhikkhus

While residing in the Palileyya forest where the elephant Palileyyaka waited on him, the Buddha uttered Verses (328), (329) and (330) of this book, with reference to the bhikkhus from Kosambi.

Once, the bhikkhus of Kosambi split into two groups; one group followed the master of Vinaya and the other followed the teacher of the Dhamma. They did not listen even to the Buddha who exhorted them to make peace. So, the Buddha left them and spent the vassa all alone in the forest, where the elephant Palileyyaka waited on him.

At the end of the vassa, the Venerable Ananda went into the forest, accompanied by five hundred bhikkhus. Leaving the bhikkhus at some distance, the Venerable Ananda approached the Buddha alone. Then the Buddha told Ananda to call the other bhikkhus. All of them came, paid obeisance to the Buddha and said, "Venerable Sir! You must have had a hard time spending the vassa all alone in this forest."

To this, the Buddha replied,"Bhikkhus, do not say so; the elephant Palileyyaka had been looking after me all this time. He was, indeed, a very good friend, a true friend. If one has such a good friend one should stick to him; but if one cannot find a good friend it is better to stay alone."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 328: If one finds a sagacious friend, who is a virtuous and steadfast companion, one should live with him joyfully and mindfully, overcoming all dangers.
 
Verse 329: If one cannot find a sagacious friend, who is a virtuous and steadfast companion, one should live alone like the king who gave up and left the country he had won, and like the elephant Matanga roaming alone in the forest.
 
Verse 330: It is better to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. So one should live alone, do no evil, and be carefree like the elephant Matanga roaming alone in the forest.

照顧佛陀的大象


如果有行為端莊、智慧具足、適合共住的益友，應該欣然與他共住，克服所有的困難。(偈 328)

但如果沒有行為端莊、智慧具足、適合共住的益友，就應該像國王放棄王國，或獨自生活在森林中的象，獨自居處。(偈 329)

寧可一人獨居，也不要與無明的人為友，獨自居處，不造作惡行，自由自在，如同森林中的象。(偈 330)


　　憍賞彌的比丘有一次因一件小事而引發不幸的爭吵(註)，他們甚至不聽佛陀的勸解。佛陀就一個人獨自到一處林子裡去結夏安居，在這期間，大象波利哩亞卡妥善護守著佛陀。相反地，當地的信徒明白佛陀離開的原因後，不再供養這些比丘。他們終於知道犯錯了，就拜託阿難尊者前去邀請佛陀回來。

　　結夏安居結束後，阿難和五百比丘到佛陀安居的林子裡。五百比丘在林子以外等待，阿難獨自進去見佛陀。佛陀要阿難叫五百比丘全都進來。他們進來向佛陀頂禮問訊後，說：「世尊！您一個人獨自在這林子裡結夏安居，真是辛苦了。」

　　「比丘們！快不要這麼說，波利哩亞卡大象在這段期間裡妥善護守著我，它實在是個好朋友，真正的朋友！人如果有它這種朋友，應永遠護持這份友誼。但如果無法找到真正的朋友，最好還是獨處。」佛陀如是說。

 

註：相關故事可參考「憍賞彌諍論不休的比丘們」


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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།


328. Sace labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃ, 

saddhiṃ caraṃ sādhuvihāridhīraṃ;

Abhibhuyya sabbāni parissayāni, 

careyya tenattamano satīmā.

329. No ce labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃ, 

saddhiṃ caraṃ sādhuvihāridhīraṃ;

Rājāva raṭṭhaṃ vijitaṃ pahāya, 

eko care mātaṅgaraññeva nāgo.

330. Ekassa caritaṃ seyyo, 

natthi bāle sahāyatā;

Eko care na ca pāpāni kayirā, 

appossukko mātaṅgaraññeva nāgo.


328. If for company you find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, you should, overcoming all impediments, keep his company joyously and mindfully.

329. If for company you cannot find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, then, like a king who leaves behind a conquered kingdom, or like a lone elephant in the elephant forest, you should go your way alone.

330. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.


328.若找到德智俱備的益友，就應開心地和謹慎地與他一起過活，克服所有困難和險阻。

329.若找不到德智俱備的益友，就應獨自生活，像國王捨離他已征服的國土，或如大象馬當加在森林中獨行漫步一樣。

330.與愚者同居不如獨自生活，因為愚者是不講交誼的；所以，應獨自生活，不可作惡，保持無憂無慮，如大象馬當加在森林中獨行漫步一樣。


328.若找到德智具备的益友，就应开心地和谨慎地与他一起过活，克服所有困难和险阻。

329.若找不到德智具备的益友，就应独自生活，像国王舍离他已征服的国土，或如大象马当加在森林中独行漫步一样。

330.与愚者同居不如独自生活，因为愚者是不讲交谊的；所以，应独自生活，不可作恶，保持无忧无虑，如大象马当加在森林中独行漫步一样。


༣༢༨༽ མི་ཚེ་ལེགས་པར་བསྐྱེལ་ནུས་པའི། །མཁས་ཤིང་གྲུང་བའི་གྲོགས་རྙེད་ན། །འགལ་རྐྱེན་ཐམས་ཅད་བསལ་བྱས་ཏེ། །དགའ་ཞིང་དྲན་པས་དེ་དང་འགྲོགས། །

༣༢༩༽ མི་ཚེ་ལེགས་པར་བསྐྱེལ་ནུས་པའི། །མཁས་གྲུང་གྲོགས་པོ་མ་རྙེད་ན། །རྒྱལ་པོས་རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་པ་ཡི། །རྒྱལ་ཁབ་རྒྱབ་ལ་བསྐྱུར་བའམ། །གླང་ཆེན་ནགས་སུ་གླང་གཅིག་བཞིན། །རང་ཚུལ་ཁོ་ནས་འགྲོ་བར་བྱ། །

༣༣༠༽ བླུན་པོའི་གྲོགས་མེད་གཅིག་པུར་དགའ། །གཅིག་པུར་སྡོད་ལ་སྡིག་མི་བྱ། །གླང་ཆེན་ནགས་སུ་གླང་པོ་བཞིན། །བག་ཡངས་སུ་ནི་གནས་པར་བྱ། །


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