沙彌和前世母親的神祇 Sanusamanera Vatthu

 Sanusamanera Vatthu 


Dhammapada Verse 326 

Idam pure cittamacari carikam
yenicchakam yatthakamam yathasukham
tadajjaham niggahessami yoniso
hatthippabhinnam viya ankusaggaho.

Verse 326: In the past, this mind has wandered as it liked, wherever it liked, at its own pleasure. Now I will control my mind wisely, as a mahout with his goad controls an elephant in must.

The Story of Samanera Sanu

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (326) of this book, with reference to a young samanera named Sanu.

One day, Samanera Sanu was urged by older bhikkhus to go up on the dais and recite parts of the Pali texts. When he had finished his recitation he solemnly called out, "May the merits gained by me today for reciting these sacred texts be shared by my mother and my father". At that time, the devas and the ogress who had been the mother of the young samanera in a previous existence were listening to his recitation. When they heard his words, the ogress was elated and promptly cried out, "My dear son, how happy I am to share your merit; you have done well, my son. Well done! Well done! (Sadhu! Sadhu!)." On account of Samanera Sanu, the mother ogress came to be very much respected and was given precedence in their assemblies by the devas and other ogres.

As the samanera grew older, he wanted to return to the life of a lay man; he went home and asked for his clothes from his mother. His mother did not want him to leave the Order and tried to dissuade him from leaving it, but he was quite firm in his decision. So, his mother promised to give him the clothes after his meal. As his mother was busy cooking his meal, the ogress, who was his mother of a past existence, thought, "If my son Sanu leaves the Order, I shall be put to shame and become a laughing stock among other ogres and devas; I must try and stop him leaving the Order." So, the young samanera was possessed by her; the boy rolled on the floor, muttering in coherently with saliva streaming out of his mouth. The mother got alarmed; neighbours came and tried to appease the spirits. Then, the ogress spoke out "This samanera wants to leave the religious Order and return to the life of a lay man; if he does so he will not be able to escape from dukkha." After saying those words, the ogress left the body of the boy and the boy became normal again.

Finding his mother in tears and the neighbours crowding around him, he asked what had happened. His mother told him everything that had happened to him and also explained to him that to return to lay life after leaving it was very foolish; in fact, even though living he would be like a dead person. The samanera then came to realize his mistake. Taking the three robes from his mother, he went back to the monastery and was soon admitted as a bhikkhu.

When told about Samanera Sanu, the Buddha wishing to teach him about the restraint of mind said, "My son, one who does not restrain the mind which wanders about cannot find happiness. So, control your mind as a mahout controls an elephant."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 326: In the past, this mind has wandered as it liked, wherever it liked, at its own pleasure. Now I will control my mind wisely, as a mahout with his goad controls an elephant in must.

At the end of the discourse Thera Sanu comprehended the Four Noble Truths and later attained arahatship.

沙彌和前世母親的神祇


從前，我的心四處攀緣，但現在我已經調御內心，如同馴象師制服求偶時期的象。 (偈 326)


有一天，眾多比丘要求左奴沙彌背誦一些經文，背誦完後，左奴虔誠的說：「願以背誦神聖經文的功德與父母共享！」這時候，他前世母親的神祇正好聽到他的背誦和話，她非常高興，立即高聲說：「親愛的兒子，我多麼高興能分享你的功德，你做的太好了，真是好孩子！」由於左奴的緣故，天神和其他神祇更敬重她，聚會時，都優渥禮遇她。

但左奴長大後，卻對修行生活不滿意，而想還俗。便回家向今生的母親表明心意。他母親費盡唇舌，勸他不可半途還俗。但他心意已定，他母親只好答應吃完飯後，給他世俗的衣服。他母親就忙著去準備餐飯，這時候，左奴前世母親的神祇在心中想著：「我一定要想辦法，阻止他離開僧伽。」這神祇就附在左奴身上，使他在地上打滾，並且喃喃自語。他今生的母親嚇了一跳，鄰居們也都過來要求神祇安靜下來。不料神祇卻說：「這沙彌要離開僧伽，還俗，果真如此，他就無法解脫了。」說完後，神祇就離開左奴的身體，左奴也清醒過來了。

他發現母親滿臉淚痕，鄰居也聚集在他身邊，就問他們究竟發生什麼事。他母親告訴他剛才發生的事情，並且說：還俗是非常愚蠢的事。左奴明白自己的錯誤，就回到精舍，受具足戒，成為僧伽的正式一員。

佛陀也為了幫助左奴證得究竟涅槃，而告誡他：「比丘！無法制服心，使心不四處飄浮的人，無法證得究竟法喜。所以控制你的心念，一如馴象師馴服大象一般。」左奴正念現前地奉行佛陀的教誨，終於證得阿羅漢果，更嫻熟三藏。後來，更是宣說佛法的優秀比丘。


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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།


326. Idaṃ pure cittamacāri cārikaṃ,

yenicchakaṃ yatthakāmaṃ yathāsukhaṃ;

Tadajjahaṃ niggahessāmi yoniso,

hatthippabhinnaṃ viya aṅkusaggaho.


326. Formerly this mind wandered about as it liked, where it wished and according to its pleasure, but now I shall thoroughly master it with wisdom as a mahout controls with his ankus an elephant in rut.


326.從前，我的心隨意流浪，喜歡那裡就到那裡；現在，我有智慧地降服心意，就像馴象師用鉤去降服在求偶期發狂的象一樣。


326.从前，我的心随意流浪，喜欢那里就到那里；现在，我有智慧地降服心意，就像驯象师用钩去降服在求偶期发狂的象一样。


༣༢༦༽ སྔོན་ཆད་སེམས་འདི་རང་དགའ་བའི། །ཕུན་ཚོགས་དཔལ་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་ནི། །ཇི་ལྟར་འདོད་པ་བཞིན་དུ་འཁྱམས། །ད་ནི་བདག་གི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱིས། །འདི་ལ་དབང་སྒྱུར་བྱེད་པ་སྟེ། །གླང་པོའི་བདག་པོས་གླང་ཆེན་བཞིན། །


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