特別長的懷孕期 Sivalitthera Vatthu

Sivalitthera Vatthu




Dhammapada Verse 414

Yo'mam palipatham duggam
samsaram mohamaccaga
tinno parangato jhayi
anejo akathamkathi
anupadaya nibbuto
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 414: Him I call a brahmana, who, having traversed this dangerous swamp (of passion), this difficult road (of moral defilements), the ocean of life (samsara) and the darkness of ignorance (moha), and having crossed the fourfold Flood, has reached the other shore (Nibbana); who practises Tranquility and Insight Meditation, who is free from craving and from doubt, who clings to nothing and remains in perfect peace.

The Story of Thera Sivali

While residing in the Kundadhana forest near the city of Kundakoliya, the Buddha uttered Verse (414) of this book, with reference to Thera Sivali.

Princess Suppavasa of Kundakoliya was in pregnancy for seven years and then for seven days she was in labour pains. She kept contemplating the unique qualities of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Samgha and in the end she sent her husband to the Buddha to pay obeisance to him on her behalf and to inform him of her condition. When informed of the condition of the princess, the Buddha said, "May Suppavasa be free from danger and from sorrow; may she give birth to a healthy noble son in safety." As these words were being spoken, Suppavasa gave birth to her son at her house. On that very day, soon after the birth of the child, the Buddha and some bhikkhus were invited to the house. Alms-food was offered there and the newly born child offered filtered water to the Buddha and the bhikkhus. To celebrate the birth of the child, the parents invited the Buddha and the bhikkhus to their house to offer food for seven days.

When the child grew up he was admitted to the Order and as a bhikkhu he was known as Sivali. He attained arahatship as soon as his head was shaved off. Later, he became famous as the bhikkhu who received the largest amount of offerings. As a recipient of offerings he was unsurpassed.

On one occasion, the bhikkhus asked the Buddha why Sivali, with the qualifications to become an arahat, was confined in his mother's womb for seven years. To them the Buddha replied, "Bhikkhus! In a previous existence, Sivali was the son of a king who lost his kingdom to another king. In trying to regain their kingdom he had besieged the city on the advice of his mother. As a result, the people in the city were without food or water for seven days. It was for this evil deed that Sivali was imprisoned in his mother's womb for seven years. But now, Sivali has come to the end of all dukkha; he has realized Nibbana."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 414: Him I call a brahmana, who, having traversed this dangerous swamp (of passion), this difficult road (of moral defilements), the ocean of life (samsara) and the darkness of ignorance (moha), and having crossed the fourfold Flood, has reached the other shore (Nibbana); who practises Tranquility and Insight Meditation, who is free from craving and from doubt, who clings to nothing and remains in perfect peace.

 特別長的懷孕期

超越泥濘、崎嶇道、生死海、無明黑暗的人(註)；渡過四瀑流(註)而證得涅槃的人；禪定止觀的人；沒有欲愛和疑惑的人；完全不執著，究竟寂靜的人，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈 414)


　　殊帕瓦莎公主的懷孕期異常的長。當她產前陣痛好幾天時，她不停繫念佛、法與僧伽的殊勝。最後，她甚至請丈夫代替她去向佛陀頂禮問訊。佛陀知道公主的情況時，就說：「願公主免除恐懼，一切平安，願她順利生下健康高貴的兒子。」正當佛陀這麼說時，公主也生下健康的兒子。當天，佛陀和眾多比丘都被邀請到他們家去應供，慶祝這個孩子的誕生。

　　這孩子長大後，出家為比丘，大家稱呼他為尸瓦哩。他在剃度出家時，當下就證得阿羅漢果。後來更以能夠輕易得到供養而出名。他是供養第一的比丘。

　　有一次，比丘們請教佛陀，為什麼尸瓦哩在母胎中特別久？

　　佛陀回答他們：「比丘們！某一世時，尸瓦哩是一位王子，他的國家被另一位國王佔據了，為了要奪回祖國，他接受母親的建議，圍堵該城市。城裡的人民因此斷水斷炊好幾天。因為這惡業，今生要忍受長期懷孕和生產的痛苦。

註：

‧「泥濘」＝貪欲；「崎嶇道」＝煩惱；「生死海」＝輪迴；

　「四瀑流」＝欲、生、邪見與無明瀑流

‧請參考故事「領悟佛法的人才是婆羅門 」


Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 21 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།


414. Yomaṃ palipathaṃ duggaṃ, 

saṃsāraṃ mohamaccagā;

Tiṇṇo pāragato jhāyī, 

anejo akathaṃkathī;

Anupādāya nibbuto, 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


414. He who, having traversed this miry, perilous and delusive round of existence, has crossed over and reached the other shore; who is meditative, calm, free from doubt, and, clinging to nothing, has attained to Nibbana — him do I call a holy man.


414.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些已橫渡危險的泥沼（喻愛欲）、越過崎嶇難行的道路（喻煩惱）、橫渡生死大海（喻輪迴）、洞穿無明黑暗、橫渡四瀑流［1］、到達彼岸（喻涅槃）、勤修止觀、無貪、無疑、無任何執著、 究竟寂靜的人。

【註釋】

［2］四瀑流：指欲瀑流、有瀑流、見瀑流、無明瀑流。


414.我所称的婆罗门，是那些已横渡危险的泥沼（喻爱欲）、越过崎岖难行的道路（喻烦恼）、横渡生死大海（喻轮回）、洞穿无明黑暗、横渡四瀑流［1］、到达彼岸（喻涅槃）、勤修止观、无贪、无疑、无任何执着、 究竟寂静的人。

【注释】

［2］四瀑流：指欲瀑流、有瀑流、见瀑流、无明瀑流。


༤༡༤༽ གང་ཞིག་སྲིད་པའི་འཁྲུལ་སྣང་དང་། །འཇིགས་ཉེན་ཅན་དང་འདམ་རྫབ་ལས། །བརྒལ་ནས་ཕ་རོལ་སོན་པ་དེ། །བསྒོམ་ལྡན་ཞི་བ་ཐེ་ཚོམ་བྲལ། །གང་ལའང་ཆགས་མེད་མྱང་འདས་རེག །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། །


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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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