執著於老舊的衣服 Nangalakulatthera Vatthu

 Nangalakulatthera Vatthu




Dhammapada Verses 379 and 380 

Attana codayattanam
patimamsetha attana
so attagutto satima
sukham bhikkhu vihahisi.

Atta hi attano natho
(ko hi natho paro siya)1
atta hi attano gati
tasma samyamamattanam
assam bhadramva vanijo.

Verse 379: O bhikkhu, by yourself exhort yourself, and examine yourself; thus guarding yourself and being mindful, you will live in peace.

Verse 380: One indeed is one's own refuge, (how could anyone else be one's refuge?)1 One indeed is one's own heaven; therefore, look after yourself as a horse dealer looks after a thoroughbred.

1. Not found in some foreign versions.

The Story of Thera Nangalakula

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (379) and (380) of this book, with reference to Thera Nangala.

Nangala was a poor field labourer in the service of a farmer. One day, a bhikkhu, seeing him ploughing a field in his old clothes, asked him if he would like to become a bhikkhu. When he replied in the affirmative, the bhikkhu took him along to the monastery and made him a bhikkhu. After the admission to the Order, as instructed by his teacher, he left his plough and his old clothes in a tree not far away from the monastery. Because the poor man had left his plough to join the Order, he was known as Thera Nangala (nangala = plough). Due to better living conditions at the monastery, Thera Nangala became healthier and soon put on weight. However, after some time, he grew tired of the life of a bhikkhu and often felt like returning to home-life. Whenever this feeling arose in him, he would go to the tree near the monastery, the tree where he had left his plough and his old clothes. There he would reproach himself saying, "O you shameless man! Do you still want to put on these old rags and return to the hard, lowly life of a hired labourer ?" After this, his dissatisfaction with the life of a bhikkhu would disappear and he would go back to the monastery. Thus, he went to the tree at an interval of every three or four days, to remind himself of the wretchedness of his old life.

When other bhikkhus asked him about his frequent visits to the tree, he replied, "I have to go to my teacher." In course of time, he attained arahatship and he stopped going to the tree. Other bhikkhus, noticing this, asked him teasingly, "Why don't you go to your teacher now?" To those bhikkhus, he replied, "I used to go to my teacher because I had need of him; but now, I have no need to go to him." The bhikkhus understood what he meant by his answer and they went to the Buddha and reported, "Venerable Sir! Thera Nangala claims to have attained arahatship. It cannot be true; he must be boasting, he must be telling lies." To them the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! Do not say so; for Nangala is not telling lies. My son Nangala, by reproaching himself and correcting himself, has indeed attained arahatship."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 379: O bhikkhu, by yourself exhort yourself, and examine yourself; thus guarding yourself and being mindful, you will live in peace.

Verse 380: One indeed is one's own refuge, (how could anyone else be one's refuge?) One indeed is one's own heaven; therefore, look after yourself as a horse dealer looks after a thoroughbred.

執著於老舊的衣服


自我警惕，自我反省，自我護衛，正念現前的比丘，才能長住安樂(偈379)

人是自己真正的護衛者，人是自己真正的皈依，因此人應調御自己，一如商人馴服良駒。 (偈380)


　　難迦拉苦拉是一位貧窮的工人。有一天，一位比丘看見他穿著破舊的衣服正在耕種，就問他是否願意出家為比丘。他答應了，就把犁和舊衣服掛在一棵離精舍不遠的樹上，而出家為比丘。

　　出家後不久，他對比丘的生活心生不滿，想還俗。每次生起這種念頭的時候，他就到那棵樹下去，並且譴責自己：「你還想穿上這老舊的衣服，再恢復工人的艱困生活啊！」如此自責之後，他對出家生活的不滿就消失了。所以每次有所不滿，他都去那裡自我檢討。

　　其他比丘問他為什麼經常到那棵樹下？他告訴他們：「我去找我的老師。」後來，他證得阿羅漢果，就不再去那棵樹下了。比丘們就略帶譏諷地問他：「你現在怎麼不再去找你的老師了呢？」他回答說：「我以前去找老師，是因為有需要，但現在已經不需要了！」比丘們就去請教佛陀，難迦拉苦拉是否說實話？佛陀告訴他們：「他說的是真話，由於自我責備，難迦拉苦拉事實上已經證得阿羅漢果了。」


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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། །


25. Bhikkhuvaggo

Chapter Twenty Five  The Monk

第二十五章 比丘

ཉེར་ལྔ་པ་དགེ་སློང་གི་ལེའུ།


379. Attanā codayattānaṃ, 

paṭimaṃsetha attanā;

So attagutto satimā, 

sukhaṃ bhikkhu vihāhisi.

380. Attā hi attano nātho, 

Attā hi attano gati;

Tasmā saṃyamamattānaṃ,

 assaṃ bhadraṃva vāṇijo.


379. By oneself one must censure oneself and scrutinize oneself. The self-guarded and mindful monk will always live in happiness.

380. One is one's own protector, one is one's own refuge. Therefore, one should control oneself, as a trader controls a noble steed.


379.比丘！應自我告誡、自我省察。如是防護自己，專注不忘，你就可以活得安寧。

380.自己才是自己的真正皈依，別人怎可以作自己的皈依呢？自己才是自己的真正庇護所；因此，要勤於看護自己，就像馬商照顧其良駒一樣。


379.比丘！应自我告诫、自我省察。如是防护自己，专注不忘，你就可以活得安宁。

380.自己才是自己的真正皈依，别人怎可以作自己的皈依呢？自己才是自己的真正庇护所；因此，要勤于看护自己，就像马商照顾其良驹一样。


༣༧༩༽ རང་གི་རང་ལ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་བྱ། །རང་གི་རང་ལ་དཔྱད་པར་བྱ། །རང་ཉིད་སྲུང་ཞིང་དྲན་ལྡན་པའི། །དགེ་སློང་རྟག་ཏུ་བདེ་བར་གནས། །

༣༨༠༽ རང་ཉིད་རང་གི་མགོན་ཡིན་ཏེ། །རང་ཉིད་རང་གི་སྐྱབས་ཡིན་ནོ། །དེ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་པས་རྟ་བཟང་བཞིན། །རང་གིས་རང་ཉིད་བསྡམ་པར་བྱ། །


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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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