身體會發光的年輕人 Candabhatthera Vatthu

 Candabhatthera Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verse 413 

Candamva vimalam suddham
vippasannamanavilam
nandibhavaparikkhinam¹
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 413: Him I call a brahmana, who, like the moon (in a cloudless sky), is pure, clear and serene, and in whom craving for existence is extinct.

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1. nandibhavaparikkhinam: one in whom craving far continued existence either in the current sensual existence or in a better and higher plane of existence in the rupa (fine material) or arupa (non-material) brahma realms, is extinct.

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The Story of Thera Candabha

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (413) of this book, with reference to Thera Candabha.

Candabha had, in a previous existence, made offerings of sandalwood to a stupa where the relics of Kassapa Buddha were enshrined. For this good deed, he was reborn in a brahmin family in Savatthi. He was born with a distinguishing mark, viz., a circle of light radiating from around his navel. As this circle of light resembled the moon he came to be known as Candabha. Some brahmins, taking advantage of this unusual feature, put him on a cart and took him round the town for exhibition and only those who paid a hundred or a thousand were allowed to touch him. On one occasion, they stopped at a place between the town and the Jetavana monastery. To ariyas going to the Jetavana monastery, they said, 'What is the use of your going to the Buddha and listening to his discourses? There is no one who is as powerful as Candabha. One who touches him will get rich; why don't you come and see ?" The ariyas then said to them, "Only our teacher is powerful; he is unrivalled and matchless."

Then the brahmins took Candabha to the Jetavana monastery to compete with the Buddha. But when Candabha was in the presence of the Buddha, the ring of light went out by itself. When Candabha was taken out of sight of the Buddha, the ring of light returned automatically; it again disappeared when taken back to the presence of the Buddha. Candabha then asked the Buddha to give him the mantra (words of incantation) that would make the ring of light disappear from around his navel. The Buddha told him that the mantra could be given only to a member of his Order. Candabha told the brahmins that he was getting a mantra from the Buddha and that after mastering the mantra he would be the greatest person in the whole of Jambudipa. So the brahmins waited outside the monastery.

Meanwhile, Candabha became a bhikkhu. He was instructed to contemplate the body, i.e., to reflect on the repulsiveness and impurity of the thirty-two constituents of the body. Within a few days, Candabha attained arahatship. When the brahmins who were waiting outside the monastery came to enquire whether he had acquired the mantra, Candabha replied. "You people had better go back now; as for me I am no longer in a position to go along with you." Other bhikkhus, hearing him, went to the Buddha and said, "Candabha is falsely claiming that he has become an arahat." To them the Buddha replied, "Candabha speaks the truth; he has eradicated all moral intoxicants."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 413: Him I call a brahmana, who, like the moon (in a cloudless sky), is pure, clear and serene, and in whom craving for existence is extinct. 身體會發光的年輕人 如同沒有瑕疵的月亮，澄淨，安祥，清明，不再渴求輪迴的人，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈 413) 　　肯達帕尊者在某一前世時，曾經供養檀香木給供奉迦葉佛遺物的浮圖塔。因為這善行，他出生在舍衛城中一位婆羅門的家裡，同時身上有特殊的異象，那就是他的肚臍眼能閃閃發出圓圈的光暈，人們因此稱呼他肯達帕。一些婆羅門就利用這不尋常的特徵，帶他到城裡去展示，只有付錢的人可以觸摸他。 　　有一次，他們帶他到祇樹給孤獨園附近，向準備前往給孤獨園的佛陀信徒說：「你們去見佛陀，聽他說法有什麼用呢？沒有人比肯達帕更有能力。任何人只要觸摸他的身子就會發財。你們為什麼不來試試看呢？」這些信徒回答說：「我們的老師具足一切能力，沒有人比得上他。」 　　這些婆羅門就帶肯達帕到給孤獨園去與佛陀一較高下。但當肯達帕與佛陀在一起時，他肚臍的光就自動消失，而被帶離佛陀面前時，又恢復放光，但與佛陀一起時，又消失了。肯達帕在心裡告知訴自己：「佛陀毫無疑問地知道如何使我身上的光消失。」他懇請佛陀教導他這方法。但佛陀勸他先加入僧伽為比丘，然後佛陀才會考慮教他。 　　肯達帕於是告訴他們的婆羅門朋友，說他要加入僧伽，學習這技巧，請他們等他。成為比丘以後，佛陀教導他去觀身，也就是觀察人身三十二個令人討厭、不淨的地方。幾天後，他就證得阿羅漢果。這時候，他的婆羅門朋友問他是否已經學會技巧了？他回答他們：「妳們最好回去吧！我不想離開這裡了。」眾多比丘向佛陀轉述他的話，佛陀說：「肯達帕說的是真心話。他已經徹底消除所有的精神污垢了(註)。」 (註) 佛陀在另外的場合說，以創造奇蹟來吸引信徒，就像商人僱請歌舞女郎來招攬生意一般。 Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 20 February 2021 https://youtu.be/eed__poY0pU 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། 413. Candaṃva vimalaṃ suddhaṃ, vippasannamanāvilaṃ; Nandībhavaparikkhīṇaṃ,  tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ. 413. He, who, like the moon, is spotless and pure, serene and clear, who has destroyed the delight in existence — him do I call a holy man. 413.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些像無雲遮掩時的月亮一樣清純、皎潔、安祥、 以及滅除有愛［1］的人。 【註釋】 ［1］有愛（craving for existence ）：愛著己身之煩惱﹔對繼續存在、轉生的渴求。 413.我所称的婆罗门，是那些像无云遮掩时的月亮一样清纯、皎洁、安祥、 以及灭除有爱［1］的人。 【注释】 ［1］有爱（craving for existence ）：爱着己身之烦恼﹔对继续存在、转生的渴求。 ༤༡༣༽ གང་ཞིག་ཟླ་ལྟར་ནག་ཐིག་མེད། །དག་ཅིང་ཞི་བ་གསལ་བ་དང་། །སྲིད་པར་དགའ་བ་རབ་ཏུ་བཅོམ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། ། 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