佛陀制服辱罵他的四位婆羅門兄弟 Akkosakabharadvaja Vatthu

 Akkosakabharadvaja Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 399 

Akkosam vadhabandhanca
aduttho yo titikkhati
khantibalam balanikam
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 399: Him I call a brahmana, who, without anger endures abuse, beating and being bound, and to whom the strength of patience is like the strength of an army.

The Story of the Abusive Brahmin Brothers

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (399) of this book, with reference to the abusive Bharadvaja brothers.

Once there was a brahmin, whose wife was in the habit of blurting out a string of words whenever she sneezed or when something or someone touched her unawares. One day, the brahmin invited some of his friends to a meal and suddenly she blurted out some words. Since she was a Sotapanna, the words "Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammsambhuddassa" automatically came out of her mouth. These words of veneration to the Buddha were very much disliked by her husband, the brahmin. So, in anger, he went to the Buddha hoping to put some challenging questions to the Buddha. His first question was, "What do we have to kill to be able to live happily and peacefully?" and his second question was, "Killing of what dhamma do you approve of?" To these questions, the Buddha replied, " O brahmin, to be able to live happily and peacefully, one will have to kill ill will (dosa). Killing one's ill will is liked and praised by the Buddhas and the arahats." After hearing the Buddha, the brahmin was so impressed and satisfied with the answer that he asked to be permitted to enter the Order. Accordingly, he entered the Order and later became an arahat.

This brahmin had a brother who was very notorious for his abusive words and was known as Akkosaka Bharadvaja, the abusive Bharadvaja. When Akkosaka Bharadvaja heard that his brother had joined the Order of the bhikkhus, he was furious. He went straight away to the monastery and abused the Buddha. The Buddha in his turn asked, "O brahmin, let us suppose you offered some food to some guests and they left the house without taking the food. Since the guests did not accept your food, to whom would that food belong?" To this question the brahmin answered that the food would be his. On receiving that answer, the Buddha said, "In the same way, O brahmin, since I do not accept your abuse, the abuse would only go back to you." Akkosaka Bharadvaja instantly realized the sagacity of those words and he felt a great respect for the Buddha. He also entered the Order and in due course became an arahat.

After Akkosaka Bharadvaja had entered the Order, his two younger brothers also came to see the Buddha with the same intention of abusing the Buddha. They too were made to see the light by the Buddha and they also, in their turn, entered the Order. Eventually, both of them became arahats.

One evening, at the congregation of the bhikkhus, the bhikkhus said to the Buddha, "O how wonderful and how great are the virtues of the Buddha! The four brahmin brothers came here to abuse the Buddha; instead of arguing with them, he made them see the light, and as a result, the Buddha has become a refuge to them." To them, the Buddha replied,"Bhikkhus! Because I am patient and forbearing, and do no wrong to those who do me wrong, I have become a refuge to many."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 399: Him I call a brahmana, who, without anger endures abuse, beating and being bound, and to whom the strength of patience is like the strength of an army.

佛陀制服辱罵他的四位婆羅門兄弟


忍受辱罵鞭打而不瞋恚，具有如同軍隊般耐力的人，我稱之為婆羅門。(偈 399)


　　從前，舍衛城裡一位婆羅門的妻子已經證得初果。只要她打噴嚏，或者有任何東西或人意外碰到她時，她都會脫口而出一些偈語。有一天，這婆羅門和幾位朋友正在家中進餐時，她又順口說：「南無佛」這句讚嘆佛陀的話，卻激怒了她的丈夫，使他立刻衝去找佛陀，並詰問佛陀。

　　他的第一個問題是：如果想要生活安祥，應該殺死什麼？第二個問題是：如果想要生活幸福，應該殺死什麼？

　　佛陀回答道：「婆羅門！想要安祥、幸福的生活，就要去除憤怒。諸佛和阿羅漢歡喜並且讚嘆能止息憤怒的人。」

　　佛陀的回答，觸動了這婆羅門的心靈深處，就出家為比丘，後來並證得阿羅漢果。

　　這婆羅門的弟弟聽見兄長出家的消息後，非常憤怒，他也直接去精舍辱罵佛陀，但佛陀反問他：

　　「婆羅門，假設你邀親朋到家中用餐，但他們卻滴口未沾就回去了，既然這些人都不接受你的食物，請問，這些食物最後歸屬誰呢？」

　　他說歸屬於他，佛陀接著說：

　　「同理，既然我不接受你的辱罵，你所說的話，豈不是在辱罵你自己嗎？(註)」

　　他一聽之下，立刻誠服佛陀的睿智，而對佛陀生起極大的敬意，也因此出家為比丘，後來也證得阿羅漢果。

　　後來，這婆羅門的另外兩位弟弟，也抱著同樣的心態前來辱罵佛陀，但也都受到佛陀的感化，而出家為比丘。也都在機緣成熟時，證得阿羅漢果。

　　一天夜晚，眾多比丘說：「佛陀的德行多麼高妙深奧！這四位婆羅門兄弟前來辱罵佛陀，但佛陀卻運用無比的智慧，協助他們領悟佛法，並且作為他們的依止。」

　　佛陀說：「比丘們！我不傷害那些傷害我的人，加上我的耐心和自制，很多人才會皈依我。」


註：這是佛教徒面對不實的批評和辱罵時應有的正確態度


Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 6 February 2021


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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། །


26. Brāhmaṇavaggo

Chapter Twenty Six   The Holy Man

第二十六章 婆羅門

ཉེར་དྲུག་པ་བྲམ་ཟེའི་ལེའུ།


399. Akkosaṃ vadhabandhañca, 

aduṭṭho yo titikkhati;

Khantībalaṃ balānīkaṃ, 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


399. He who without resentment endures abuse, beating and punishment; whose power, real might, is patience — him do I call a holy man.


399.我所稱的婆羅門，能忍受辱罵、毆打、捆綁而不瞋恨，他是個堅忍力強如軍隊的人。


399.我所称的婆罗门，能忍受辱骂、殴打、捆绑而不瞋恨，他是个坚忍力强如军队的人。


༣༩༩༽ དགྲ་དང་གཉེན་ལ་མི་འཁོན་ཞིང་། །གང་ཞིག་ཁྲོ་མེད་བཟོད་པར་བྱེད། །བཟོད་པའི་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་དམག་སྡེ་ཅན། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། །


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