一名女士和四名沙彌 Samaneranam Vatthu

 Samaneranam Vatthu 




Dhammapada Verse 406 

Aviruddham viruddhesu
attadandesu nibbutam
sadanesu anadanam
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 406: Him I call a brahmana, who is not hostile to those who are hostile, who is peaceful (i.e., has laid aside the use of force) to those with weapons, and who is without attachment to objects of attachment.

The Story of Four Samaneras

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (406) of this book, with reference to four samaneras who were arahats.

Once, the wife of a brahmin sent her husband the brahmin to the Jetavana monastery to invite four bhikkhus to an alms-meal at their house. She told him to specifically request for senior bhikkhus who were also true brahmanas. But four seven year old arahat samaneras, viz., Samkicca, Pandita, Sopaka and Revata were sent along with him. When his wife saw the young samaneras she was very much dissatisfied and blamed the brahmin for bringing such young samaneras who were even younger than her grandson. She was, in fact, furious with her husband, and so she sent him back to the monastery to get older bhikkhus. In the meantime she refused to give the young samaneras the higher seats reserved for the bhikkhus; they were given lower seats and she did not offer them alms-food.

When the brahmin arrived at the monastery, he met the Venerable Sariputta and invited him to his house. When the Venerable Sariputta arrived at the house of the brahmin, he saw the four young arahat samaneras and asked them if they had been offered alms-food yet. On learning that the arahat samaneras had not been given alms-food yet and also that food had been prepared only for four persons the Venerable Sariputta returned to the monastery without accepting alms-food from the house of the brahmin. So his wife sent the brahmin back again to the monastery to get another senior bhikkhu. This time, the Venerable Maha Moggallana came along with the brahmin, but he also returned to the monastery without accepting alms-food when he learned that the young samaneras had not been offered alms-food and also that food had been prepared only for four persons.

By this time, the samaneras were feeling hungry. Sakka, king of the devas, seeing the state of things took the form of an old brahmin and came to the house. The brahmin and his wife paid respect to the old brahmin and offered him a seat of honour, but Sakka just sat on the ground and paid respect to the four samaneras. Then he revealed that he was Sakka. Seeing that Sakka himself was paying respect to the young samaneras, the brahmin couple offered alms-food to all the five. After the meal, Sakka and the samaneras manifested their supernormal power by going right up into the sky through the roof. Sakka went back to his celestial abode, the samaneras returned to the monastery.

When other bhikkhus asked the samaneras whether they did net get angry when the brahmin couple refused to offer alms-food to them, they answered in the negative. The bhikkhus not believing them reported to the Buddha that the four young samaneras were falsely claiming to be arahats. To them the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus, arahats bear no ill will towards those who are hostile to them."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 406: Him I call a brahmana, who is not hostile to those who are hostile, who is peaceful (i.e., has laid aside the use of force) to those with weapons, and who is without attachment to objects of attachment.

一名女士和四名沙彌


敵對者環繞時仍然保持友善的態度，暴力氣氛中仍然保持溫和的態度，眾人都執著五蘊，而不執著的人，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈406)


　　有一次，一位婆羅門太太請丈夫到祇樹給孤獨園邀請四位比丘到家中來接受供養。她特別要丈夫指名邀請真正出身婆羅門的資深比丘，但丈夫引導回來的卻是四名阿羅漢 沙彌，當她看見丈夫請回來的是年輕沙彌時，非常失望，就責怪丈夫，並憤怒地要他再去精舍請資深比丘來。同時，她拒絕讓四位沙彌坐尊貴的座位，也不供養他們。

　　這婆羅門再度到達精舍時，遇見舍利弗尊者，就邀請舍利弗尊者到他家應供。舍利弗到他家時，看見已經有四位阿羅漢沙彌在場，就問他們是否已經接受供養？當他知道他們尚未受到供養，又知道只準備供養四名比丘而已時，便返回精舍。這婆羅門只得再到精舍一趟。這一次，大目犍連尊者與他同行返家，但結果也和舍利弗尊者一樣，返回精舍。

　　這時候，帝釋看見這四名阿羅漢沙彌略顯飢餓，就化身成一名老婆羅門，出現在這婆羅門夫婦家。這對夫婦向老婆羅門致敬，並請他坐上尊貴的座位，但這老婆羅門只坐在地上，並且向這四名阿羅漢沙彌致敬。他接著透露自己的身分。這對夫婦看見帝釋向沙彌致敬，就供養他們和帝釋。供養後，這四名阿羅漢沙彌和帝釋各自顯神通。之後，帝釋回天界去，四名沙彌也回精舍去。

　　佛陀知道這件意外時，評論說：「比丘們！阿羅漢對敵視他們的人不懷惡意。」


Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 13 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།


406. Aviruddhaṃ viruddhesu, 

attadaṇḍesu nibbutaṃ;

Sādānesu anādānaṃ, 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


406. He who is friendly amidst the hostile, peaceful amidst the violent, and unattached amidst the attached — him do I call a holy man.


406.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些對敵人不懷敵意、用和平手段對付暴力者、 及無所執取的人。


406.我所称的婆罗门，是那些对敌人不怀敌意、用和平手段对付暴力者、 及无所执取的人。


༤༠༦༽ གཤེ་བའི་ནང་ན་མི་གཤེ་ཞིང་། །དབྱུག་ཐོགས་ནང་ན་ཞི་བར་སྡོད། །ལེན་པ་ཅན་ནང་མི་ལེན་པ། །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


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此是免費贈送的法寶。

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