富貴使人更加貪婪 Aputtakasetthi Vatthu

 Aputtakasetthi Vatthu




 Dhammapada Verse 355 

Hananti bhoga dummedham
no ca paragavesino
bhogatanhaya dummedho
hanti anneva attanam.

Verse 355: Wealth destroys the foolish; but it cannot destroy those who seek the other shore (i.e., Nibbana). By his craving for wealth the fool destroys himself, as he would destroy others.

The Story of a Childless Rich Man

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (355) of this book, with reference to a childless rich man.

On one occasion, King Pasenadi of Kosala came to pay homage to the Buddha. He explained to the Buddha that he was late because earlier that day a rich man had died in Savatthi without leaving any heirs, and so he had to confiscate all that man's property. Then, he proceeded to relate about the man, who, although very rich, was very stingy. While he lived, he did not give away anything in charity. He was reluctant to spend his money even on himself, and therefore, ate very sparingly and wore cheap, coarse clothes only. On hearing this the Buddha told the king and the audience about the man in a past existence. In that existence also he was a rich man.

One day, when a paccekabuddha came and stood for alms at his house, he told his wife to offer some thing to the paccekabuddha. His wife thought it was very rarely that her husband gave her permission to give anything to anybody. So, she filled up the alms-bowl with some choice food. The rich man again met the paccekabuddha on his way home and he had a look at the alms-bowl. Seeing that his wife had offered a substantial amount of good food, he thought, "Oh, this bhikkhu would only have a good sleep after a good meal. It would have been better if my servants were given such good food; at least, they would have given me better service." In other words, he regretted that he had asked his wife to offer food to the paccekabuddha. This same man had a brother who also was a rich man. His brother had an only son. Coveting his brother's wealth, he had killed his young nephew and had thus wrongfully inherited his brother's wealth on the latter's death.

Because the man had offered alms-food to the paccekabuddha he became a rich man in his present life; because he regretted having offered food to the paccekabuddha he had no wish to spend anything even on himself. Because he had killed his own nephew for the sake of his brother's wealth he had to suffer in niraya for seven existences. His bad kamma having come to an end he was born into the human world but here also he had not gained any good kamma. The king then remarked, "Venerable Sir! Even though he had lived here in the lifetime of the Buddha himself, he had not made any offering of anything to the Buddha or to his disciples. Indeed, he had missed a very good opportunity; he had been very foolish."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 355: Wealth destroys the foolish; but it cannot destroy those who seek the other shore (i.e., Nibbana). By his craving for wealth the fool destroys himself, as he would destroy others.

富貴使人更加貪婪



財富毀滅愚癡的人，但無法摧毀追求彼岸的人 (註)，愚癡的人貪愛財富，不只毀滅自己，也害了別人。(偈 355)


　　有一次，憍薩羅國的國王前往精舍向佛陀問訊。他首先向佛陀解釋晚到的原因，原來舍衛城當天有一位富翁去世了，該富翁沒有任何子嗣，所有家產因此都被充公，他也因為處理這件事才遲到。國王接著向佛陀說，這富翁雖然非常富有，但也非常吝嗇。活著的時候，他不布施，對待自己也十分苛刻，吃得少，同時只穿便宜、粗糙的衣服。

　　聽完國王的話，佛陀說這富翁的某一前世也是富翁，有一天，一位辟支佛到他家化緣，他請太太加以供養。他太太明白他很少同意她供養任何人，就特別在辟支佛的缽裡裝滿食物。當富翁發現太太供養的食物相當豐碩時， 心裡想著：「這比丘吃完後，只會睡覺，與其如此，不如把這些食物給我的僕人吃，至少他們吃完後，會更賣力的為我工作。」

　　這麼一想，他就後悔剛才答應太太供養辟支佛。這富翁有一位也是富翁的哥哥，而且只有一位兒子，這富翁由於貪戀哥哥的財產，就把哥哥唯一的兒子給殺了，然後在哥哥去世時繼承所有的財產。

　　這富翁因為曾經供養辟支佛，所以今生才會富有。但因為心生後悔，所以今生不知道該如何利用財富。而且只為了要繼承哥哥的財產，就謀殺侄子，所以會在地獄長久受苦。今生之前，他已經償還累世以來所累積的惡業報應，所以今生才得以為人，但今生也沒有做過任何的善業。

　　國王說：「尊者！雖然他有幸生活在佛陀在世的時候，卻從來不供養任何人，他真正糟蹋了千載難逢的機緣了。」


註：「彼岸」指的是涅槃，追求彼岸的人指的是渴望證得涅槃的人。


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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། 


355. Hananti bhogā dummedhaṃ, 

no ca pāragavesino;

Bhogataṇhāya dummedho, 

hanti aññeva attanaṃ.


355. Riches ruin only the foolish, not those in quest of the Beyond. By craving for riches the witless man ruins himself as well as others.


355.財富可毀滅愚者，卻無法摧毀尋求涅槃彼岸的人；患者因貪求財富， 會像傷害別人般傷害自己。


355.财富可毁灭愚者，却无法摧毁寻求涅槃彼岸的人；患者因贪求财富， 会像伤害别人般伤害自己。


༣༥༥༽ ནོར་གྱིས་བླུན་པོ་ཁོ་ན་གསོད། །ཐར་པ་འཚོལ་བ་དག་ནི་མིན། །ཕྱུག་པོར་སྲེད་པའི་བློ་དམན་རྣམས། །རང་གཞན་གཉིས་ཀ་རླག་པར་བྱེད། །


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