尊敬值得尊敬的人 Sariputtatthera Vatthu
Sariputtatthera Vatthu
Dhammapada Verse 392
Yamha dhammam vijaneyya
sammasambuddhadesitam
sakkaccam tam namasseyya
aggihuttamva brahmano.
Verse 392: If from somebody one should learn the Teaching of the Buddha, he should respectfully pay homage to that teacher, as a brahmin worships the sacrificial fire.
The Story of Thera Sariputta
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (392) of this book, with reference to the Venerable Sariputta.
The Venerable Sariputta was born of brahmin parents of Upatissa village; that was why he was named Upatissa. His mother was Sari. His very close friend was Kolita, another brahmin youth, son of Moggali. Both the youths were searching for the right doctrine, which would lead them to liberation from the round of rebirths, and both of them had a great desire to enter a religious Order. First, they went to Sancaya, but they were not satisfied with his teaching. Then they wandered all over Jambudipa looking for a teacher who would show them the way to the Deathless, but their search was fruitless. After some time, they parted company but with the understanding that the one who found the true dhamma first should inform the other.
About that time, the Buddha arrived at Rajagaha with a company of bhikkhus, including Thera Assaji, one of the group of the first Five Bhikkhus (Pancavaggis). While Thera Assaji was on an alms-round, Upatissa saw the thera and was very much impressed by his noble countenance. So Upatissa respectfully approached the thera and asked who his teacher was, what doctrine his teacher taught, and also briefly to explain the doctrine to him. Thera Assaji then told Upatissa about the arising of the Buddha and about his sojourn at the Veluvana monastery in Rajagaha. The thera also quoted a short stanza connected with the Four Noble Truths.
The verse runs thus:
Ye dhamma hetuppa bhava
tesam hetum tathagato aha
tesanca yo nirodho
evam vadi maha samano.
It means:
The Tathagata has declared the cause and also the cessation of all phenomena which arise from a cause. This is the doctrine held by the Great Samana.
When the verse was only half-way through, Upatissa attained Sotapatti Fruition.
As promised, Upatissa went to his friend Kolita to inform him that he had found the true dhamma. Then the two friends, accompanied by two hundred and fifty followers, went to the Buddha who was then at Rajagaha. When they arrived at the Veluvana monastery, they asked permission to enter the Buddhist Order, and both Upatissa and Kolita, together with their two hundred and fifty followers, were admitted as bhikkhus. Upatissa, son of Sari, and Kolita, son of Moggali, then came to be known as Sariputta and Moggallana. Soon after their admission to the Order, the Buddha expounded to them a dhamma and the two hundred and fifty bhikkhus attained arahatship; but Moggallana and Sariputta attained arahatship only at the end of seven days and fifteen days respectively. The reason for the delay in their attainment of arahatship was that they had made a wish for Chief Discipleship, which required much more striving to achieve perfection.
The Venerable Sariputta always remembered that he had been able to meet the Buddha and attain the Deathless through the Venerable Assaji. So, he always paid obeisance in the direction where his teacher was and he always went to bed with his head lying in the same direction. Other bhikkhus who were staying with him at the Jetavana monastery misinterpreted his actions and said to the Buddha, "Venerable Sir! The Venerable Sariputta still worships the various directions, viz., the East, the South, the West, the North, the Nadir and the Zenith, as he has done before as a brahmin youth; it seems as if he has not yet given up his old beliefs." The Buddha sent for the Venerable Sariputta and Sariputta explained to the Buddha that he was only paying obeisance to his teacher, the Venerable Assaji, and that he was not worshipping the various directions. The Buddha was satisfied with the explanation given by the Venerable Sariputta and said to the other bhikkhus, "Bhikkhus! The Venerable Sariputta was not worshipping the various directions; he was only paying obeisance to his teacher and benefactor, through whom he had attained the Deathless. It is quite right and proper for him to pay homage to such a teacher."
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
Verse 392: If from somebody one should learn the Teaching of the Buddha, he should respectfully pay homage to that teacher, as a brahmin worships the sacrificial fire.尊敬值得尊敬的人不論經由誰而理解智者的教法，應該對此人禮敬，如婆羅門禮敬祭祀的火一般。(偈 392) 舍利弗尊者出生在優婆提舍村落的一戶婆羅門家，所以他的名字是優婆提舍，他母親的名字是舍梨女。他有一位非常要好的朋友－－拘律陀，是婆羅門目犍利的兒子。他們兩人一直在尋找能夠解脫生死輪迴的正法，也有加入宗教團體的強烈意願。 他們首先親近珊闍耶，但後來不滿意他的說法，就離開他，四處去尋找可以指引他們證入涅槃的老師，但卻遍尋不著。他們只好在達成先找到正法的人要儘速通知另一人的協議之後，分道揚鑣去尋找。 大約在這時候，佛陀和眾多比丘抵達王舍城。最早出家的五位比丘之一的馬勝比丘也在其中。有一天，優婆提舍遇見正在化緣的馬勝比丘，深深為他高貴的神色感動，就很尊敬地趨前請教－－他的老師是誰？教什麼法？並且請他簡略的敘說一下。馬勝比丘就告訴他，佛陀已經出世了，現在停留在王舍城的竹林精舍。他並且說了一首簡短的偈： 「如來宣說因緣和合現象的生滅，這就是偉大沙門的說法。」 當尊者只誦了一半的偈語時，優婆提舍就了解佛法了。他立即遵照協議，找到拘律陀，告訴他已經找到正法了。他們兩人和他們的弟子就一齊去謁見佛陀，並請求加入僧伽，也都如願以償。優婆提舍和拘律陀後來被人稱呼為舍利弗和大目犍連。不久，兩人都證得阿羅漢果。 舍利弗尊者心中牢牢記著，他是因為遇見馬勝比丘的關係，才能夠值遇佛陀，而證得涅槃。所以他總是禮敬馬勝比丘所在的方向，夜晚入睡時，頭也朝向馬勝比丘所在的方向。祇樹給孤獨園的其他比丘誤解舍利弗的舉止，就向佛陀說：「世尊！舍利弗仍然禮敬四方，就像他還是婆羅門時的所作所為一般，他似乎未曾放棄過去的信仰。」舍利弗解釋說，他只是禮敬他的老師馬勝比丘．而不是禮敬四方。佛陀就說：「比丘們！舍利弗並未禮拜四方，他只是禮敬引領他親近佛陀的老師馬勝比丘，他禮敬這樣的一位老師是對的。」 ‧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། 30 January 2021Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3) Dhammapada 《法句經》 ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། 26. Brāhmaṇavaggo Chapter Twenty Six The Holy Man 第二十六章 婆羅門 ཉེར་དྲུག་པ་བྲམ་ཟེའི་ལེའུ། 392. Yamhā dhammaṃ vijāneyya, sammāsambuddhadesitaṃ; Sakkaccaṃ taṃ namasseyya, aggihuttaṃva brāhmaṇo. 392. Just as a brahman priest reveres his sacrificial fire, so should one devoutly revere the person from whom one has learned the Dhamma taught by the Buddha. 392.不論從誰聽聞佛法，也應向說法者致敬，如婆羅門［1］向聖火致敬一樣。 【註釋】 ［1］婆羅門：此婆羅門非指阿羅漠，而是古印度社會階級制度中之一階級。此一階級之人自認為是梵天的後裔。平素讀誦《四吠陀》，行祭祀，位居四姓 （四種階級）之最上位。 392.不论从谁听闻佛法，也应向说法者致敬，如婆罗门［1］向圣火致敬一样。 【注释】 ［1］婆罗门：此婆罗门非指阿罗漠，而是古印度社会阶级制度中之一阶级。此一阶级之人自认为是梵天的后裔。平素读诵《四吠陀》，行祭祀，位居四姓 （四种阶级）之最上位。 ༣༩༢༽ དཔེར་ན་བྲམ་ཟེ་མཆོད་གནས་ཀྱིས། །སྦྱིན་སྲེག་མེ་ལ་མཆོད་པ་ལྟར། །སངས་རྒྱས་གསུང་རབ་ཐོས་པ་ཡི། །སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ལ་མཆོད་པར་བྱ། ། You may choose your language. The five options are: Pali, English, Cantonese and Putonghua, Tibetan. 您可以選擇您的語言：巴利語、英語、廣東話、普通話、藏語 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 It is a free gift. 此是免費贈送的法寶。 འབུལ་བ་འདི་རིན་མེད་ཡིན། #Dhammapada #法句經 #ཆོསཀྱིཚིགསསུབཅསཔ། #DharmaisNOTforSALE #佛法是非賣品 #དམཆོསརིནམེད |
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