特技演員變成聖者 Uggasena Vatthu

 Uggasena Vatthu 


Dhammapada Verse 348 

Muncapure1munca pacchato2
majjhe3munca bhavassa paragu4
sabbattha vimuttamanaso
na punam jatijaram upehisi.

Verse 348: Give up the past, give up the future, give up the present. Having reached the end of existences, with a mind freed from all (conditioned things), you will not again undergo birth and decay.

1, 2, 3. pure, pacchato, majjhe: the reference is to attachment to the past, future and present Khandha aggregates.

4. bhavassa paragu: one who has gane to the other shore or end of existences (i.e., Nibbana); an arahat.

The Story of Uggasena

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (348) of this book, with reference to Uggasena, a rich man's son who fell in love with a dancer.

Once, a wandering theatrical troupe consisting of five hundred dancers and some acrobats came to Rajagaha and performed on the grounds of the palace of King Bimbisara for seven days. There, a young dancer who was the daughter of an acrobat sang and danced on top of a long bamboo pole. Uggasena, the young son of a rich man, fell desperately in love with this dancer and his parents could not stop him from marrying her. He married the young dancer and followed the troupe. As he was not a dancer nor an acrobat, he was not of much use to the party. So, as the party moved from place to place, he had to help carry boxes, to drive the carts, etc.

In course of time, a son was born to Uggasena and his wife, the dancer. To this child, the dancer would often sing a song which ran thus: "O you, son of the man who keeps watch over the carts; the man who carries boxes and bundles! O , you, son of the ignorant one who can do nothing!" Uggasena heard the song; he knew that his wife was referring to him and he was very much hurt and depressed. So he went to his father-in-law, the acrobat, and requested him to teach him acrobatics. After a year's training, Uggasena became a skilful acrobat.

Then, Uggasena went back to Rajagaha, and it was proclaimed that Uggasena would publicly demonstrate his skill in seven days' time. On the seventh day, a long pole was put up and Uggasena stood on top of it. At a signal given from below he somersaulted seven times on the pole. At about this time, the Buddha saw Uggasena in his vision and knew that time was ripe for Uggasena to attain arahatship. So, he entered Rajagaha and willed that the audience should turn their attention to him instead of applauding Uggasena for his acrobatic feats. When Uggasena saw that he was being neglected and ignored, he just sat on top of the pole, feeling very discontented and depressed. The Buddha then addressed Uggasena, "Uggasena, a wise man should abandon all attachment to the khandha aggregates and strive to gain liberation from the round of rebirths."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 348: Give up the past, give up the future, give up the present. Having reached the end of existences, with a mind freed from all (conditioned things), you will not again undergo birth and decay.

At the end of the discourse Uggasena, who was still on top of the pole, attained arahatship. He came down and was soon admitted to the Order by the Buddha.

特技演員變成聖者


斷除對過去、未來和現在五蘊的貪著，不再受後有(不再輪迴)，心中解脫所有緣起法，就可以不再生滅了。 (偈348)


　　有一次，一團擁有很多舞者和特技演員的戲團到王舍城來，並且在頻婆裟羅王的王宮表演。其中有一位漂亮的女舞者在竹竿頂端上唱歌舞蹈，這時候有一位名字叫做優迦紳那的年輕富家子在觀賞她的表演後，瘋狂的愛上她，就與她結婚。婚後，由於她不願意留在王舍城，他只好跟著這戲團到處去，但他既不會跳舞也不會特技表演，對戲團毫無貢獻，所以當戲團到各地去表演時，他就是幫忙搬箱子或開車的司役。

　　後來，他們生了一個男孩，他太太經常對著孩子唱著：「你的父親是照顧車騎的人，是個搬箱子和行李的人，他一無是處！」

　　優迦紳那聽出諷刺的含意，就問她：「你是不是在說我？」

　　「沒錯，我正是說你。」

　　「既然如此，我要離開你們。」

　　「你在不在這裡有什麼差別嗎？」他的太太這樣回答他，而且一而再，再而三的唱這首歌。

　　優迦紳那知道太太之所以傲慢，是因為擁有特技演員的身手，他就情商也是特技演員的丈人教他特技。經過一年的訓練，他也成為一位傑出的特技演員。

　　後來，戲團再度回到王舍城表演，並且公開宣稱優迦紳那要表演特技，表演當天，戲團豎起一根長竹竿，優迦紳那就爬到竿子上面，訊號響起後，他就在竿子頂端表演。這時候佛陀透過神通，看見他，也知道他了解佛法的機緣已經成熟了。佛陀就進入戲團表演的場地，並且運用神通使觀眾的注意力全部轉移到他身上，而忘了鼓掌喝采優迦紳那的特技表演。優迦紳那發現無人注意他時，便坐在竹竿上，心裡滿不高興，而且十分沮喪。佛陀就告誡他：「優迦紳那！有智慧的人不執著因緣和合的事物，反而精進修行，希望解脫生死輪迴。」

　　優迦紳那就在竹竿上正念現前地思惟佛陀的教誨，立刻證得阿羅漢果。然後走下來，出家，加入僧伽為比丘。

　　有一天，佛陀停留在竹林精舍的時候，眾多比丘在討論為什麼優迦紳那會因為一位漂亮的女舞者而隨戲團到處跑碼頭呢？

　　佛陀聽到他們的話後，說優迦紳那的某一世出生在迦葉佛時，有一天，他和太太遇見一位比丘在化緣，由於有些食物，他們就供養這比丘，並且許下虔誠的願望：「尊者，願我們能如實知見佛法。」

　　當時，那位阿羅漢比丘運用神通觀察未來，發現他們會達成願望，就微微一笑。前世的優迦紳那並不知道阿羅漢言行舉止的涵意，反而輕蔑的說，這比丘像個戲子。由於他這種輕浮的說法，今生才會與戲團到去跑碼頭。


　　註：本故事尚有後篇：「沒有束縛就沒有恐懼」


‧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། 31 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། །


24. Taṇhāvagga

Chapter Twenty Four  Craving

第二十四章 愛欲

ཉེར་བཞི་པ་སྲེད་པའི་ལེའུ། 


348. Muñca pure muñca pacchato, 

majjhe muñca bhavassa pāragū;

Sabbattha vimuttamānaso, 

na punaṃ jātijaraṃ upehisi.


348. Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.


348.捨棄過去、捨棄未來、捨棄現在，到了最後一世，內心全無掛礙，你便可從此不受後有了。


348.舍弃过去、舍弃未来、舍弃现在，到了最后一世，内心全无挂碍，你便可从此不受后有了。


༣༤༨༽ འདས་དང་མ་འོངས་ད་ལྟར་གྱི། །ཆོས་རྣམས་བཏང་ནས་སྲེད་པ་བརྒལ། །ཡོངས་སུ་གྲོལ་བའི་ཡིད་ཀྱིས་ནི། །ཁྱེད་ལ་སྐྱེ་འཆི་སླར་མི་འབྱུང་། །


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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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此是免費贈送的法寶。

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