戰勝欲望的比丘 Sundarasamuddatthera Vatthu

Sundarasamuddatthera Vatthu

Dhammapada Verse 415

Yo'dha kime pahantvana
anagaro paribbaje
kamabhavaparikkhinam
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 415: Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up sensual pleasures, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated sensual desires and has come to the end of existence.

The Story of Thera Sundarasamudda

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (415) of this book, with reference to Thera Sundarasamudda.

Sundarasamudda was the son of a rich man from Savatthi. After he had entered the Order, he left for Rajagaha, which was forty-five yojanas away from Savatthi, to practise meditation. One day, while some festivities were going on in Savatthi, the parents of Sundarasamudda missed him very much; they also felt sorry for their son who was missing all the enjoyment and they wept. As they were weeping, a courtesan came to them and asked what the matter was. On hearing about their son, the courtesan said, "If I could make your son leave the Order and return to the life of a lay man how would you reward me?" The parents answered that they would make her rich. The courtesan then asked for a large sum of money and left for Rajagaha with a number of followers.

At Rajagaha, she rented a house with seven-tiered pinnacles on the route where Thera Sundarasamudda would come on his alms-round. She prepared good food and waited for him. On the first few days, she offered alms-food to the thera at the door of her house. Later, she invited him to come inside. Meanwhile, she paid money to some children to come and play just outside the house about the time the thera usually came on his alms-round. This gave her the excuse that it was very dusty and noisy on the ground floor; with this excuse she invited the thera to the top floor to have his alms-food. The thera consented and went up and as soon as he had entered the room, the courtesan closed the door. Then she started seducing the thera. She said to the thera, "Venerable Sir! Please be my youthful and energetic husband, and I will be your dearly beloved wife. After our long and happy wedded life we can both leave it to enter the Order and strive our very best to attain Nibbana." When he heard these words the thera suddenly realized his mistake and got alarmed. Then he said to himself, "Indeed, by being negligent and unmindful I have made a great mistake."

At that instant, the Buddha saw from his Perfumed Chamber what was happening to Thera Sundarasamudda at Rajagaha. He called the Venerable Ananda and said to him, "Ananda! On an upper storey of a pinnacled building in Rajagaha, there now goes on a struggle between Sundarasamudda and a courtesan; but in the end the thera will be the winner." After saying this to Ananda, the Buddha sent forth his radiance to the thera, made him feel his presence, and said, "My son! Be resolute and get rid of love of wealth and sensual pleasures."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 415: Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up sensual pleasures, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated sensual desires and has come to the end of existence.

At the end of the discourse the thera attained arahatship, and by supernormal power passed through the roof into the sky and went to the Buddha. 

戰勝欲望的比丘


世間人若割捨欲樂，正信出家，滅除貪欲，不再輪迴，我稱之為婆羅門。(偈415)


　　山卓山慕達是舍衛城裡一戶有錢人家的兒子，出家為比丘後，他到距離舍衛城相當遙遠的王舍城去禪修。從此以後，他的父母非常思念他。有一天，舍衛城裡舉行一些典禮，他們因為兒子不在身邊而不禁哭泣起來。有一位妓女看見他們在哭泣，就詢問他們究竟什麼事惹得他們如此傷心？這對夫婦就把事情的原委告訴她，她就問：「如果我能使你們的兒子離開僧伽還俗的話，你們要如何酬謝我呢？」夫婦兩人答應使她成為富翁。這妓女就向他們要了一大筆錢，出發前往王舍城。

　　抵達王舍城後，她在山卓山慕達進城化緣的路上租了一間房子，並且準備好美味的食物，等他來化緣。剛開始的幾天，她在房子門口供養他。不久，她邀請他進屋子裡。她更花錢雇請幾位小孩在他經常來化緣的時候，在房子門口嬉戲，她於是藉口一樓又吵又有灰塵，而邀請他上頂樓去進食。等他隨她上頂樓時，她卻關上門，開始誘惑他：「尊者！請你當我親愛的丈夫吧！讓我做你親愛的妻子！等我們渡過漫長、快樂的婚姻生活後，我們可以一齊加入僧伽，再精進努力，盡最大的能力證入涅槃。」這比丘明白自己犯錯了，立即心生警惕，告訴自己：「由於疏忽，我已經犯了大錯。」

　　這時候，佛陀知道發生在山卓山慕達身上的事，就叫阿難來，告訴他：「山卓山慕達正在王舍城中一棟尖頂樓房的二樓上對抗一位妓女的挑逗，但是他終究會戰勝。」佛陀就透過神通放光，勸誡山卓山慕達：「去除對財富和感官欲樂的貪愛，從欲望中解脫出來吧！」山卓山慕達也正念現前，努力思考佛陀的教誨，而證得阿羅漢果。


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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།


415. Yodha kāme pahantvāna, 

anāgāro paribbaje;

Kāmabhavaparikkhīṇaṃ, 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


415. He who, having abandoned sensual pleasures, has renounced the household life and become a homeless one, has destroyed both sensual desire and continued existence — him do I call a holy man.


415.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些今世已捨棄欲樂、出家為比丘、根除欲貪、 已到達最後一生的人。


415.我所称的婆罗门，是那些今世已舍弃欲乐、出家为比丘、根除欲贪、 已到达最后一生的人。


༤༡༥༽ གང་ཞིག་འདོད་ཡོན་དཔལ་བཏང་ནས། །ཁྱིམ་ནས་ཁྱིམ་མེད་རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་། །འདོད་ཡོན་དང་ནི་སྲིད་རྒྱུན་བཅོམ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། །


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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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