南傳法句經 第十四 佛陀品（179～196偈）
〈简〉
179、
佛已治煩惱，
無人所能勝，
佛智廣無邊，
誰能誘惑佛？
180、
漏盡無結縛，
欲毒難誘使，
佛智廣無邊，
誰能誘惑佛？
181、
聖者常修定*，
樂寂靜出離，
正念正覺者，
天人所愛敬。
*（止觀）。
182、
得生人道難，
人生長壽難，
聽聞佛法難，
值佛出世難。
183、
停止造諸惡，
培育眾善行，
清淨自心意，
此乃諸佛教。
184、
苦行忍第一，
涅槃為最上，
害人非出家，
惱人非沙門。
185、
不罵與不害，
嚴守於戒律*，
飲食知節量，
寂靜處獨居，
常念於菩提，
此乃諸佛教。
*（比丘別解脫律儀戒）。
186、
設若降金雨，
貪心無厭足，
智者知貪欲，
樂少*而苦多。
*（Appassada無信樂，不喜）。
187、
雖於諸天樂，
智者無奢求，
佛陀聖弟子，
樂於滅欲貪。
188、
人為怖畏苦，
皈依趨山巒，
樹林和林莽，
及諸神廟堂*。
*（Cetiya）。
189、
彼非安穩依，
非最上依處，
皈依於彼處，
不能離於苦。
190、
若人皈依佛，
皈依法與僧，
依於正知見，
得見四真諦*。
*四真諦：苦、集、滅、道四聖諦。
191、
苦諦苦集諦，
苦滅諦道諦，
滅苦八正道*，
導至苦寂滅。
*八正道：正見，正思惟，正語，正業，正命，正精進，正念，正定。
192、
此皈依安穩，
此皈依最上，
此乃真皈依，
能脫離眾苦。
（188～192五偈合誦）
193、
聖人*難值遇，
彼非處處生，
聖人所生處，
氏族皆蒙慶。
*（佛陀）。
194、
諸佛出世樂，
宣說正法樂，
僧伽和合樂，
學眾戒和樂。
195、
禮敬於世尊，
諸佛聖弟子，
摧伏諸煩惱，
超越眾憂苦。
196、
若人禮敬於，
寂靜無畏者，
其人之功德，
無人能衡量。
法增比丘譯
（Dhammavaro Bhikkhu）
Buddhavagga: Awakened
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
179-180
Whose conquest can't be undone, whose conquest no one in the world can reach; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you
lead him astray? In whom there's no craving — the sticky ensnarer — to lead him
anywherever at all; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead
him astray?
181
They, the enlightened,
intent on jhana, delighting in stilling & renunciation, self-awakened & mindful: even the devas view them with envy.
182
Hard the winning of
a human birth. Hard the life of mortals. Hard the chance to hear
the true Dhamma. Hard the arising of
Awakened Ones.
183-185
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of
what's skillful,
the cleansing of
one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Patient endurance: the foremost austerity. Unbinding: the foremost, so say the Awakened. He who injures another is no contemplative. He who mistreats another, no monk. Not disparaging, not injuring, restraint in line
with the Patimokkha, moderation in food, dwelling in seclusion, commitment to
the heightened mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
186-187
Not even if it rained gold coins would we have our fill of sensual pleasures. 'Stressful, they give little enjoyment' — knowing this, the wise one finds no delight even in heavenly sensual pleasures.
He is one who delights in the ending of craving, a disciple of the Rightly Self-Awakened One.
188-192
They go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to park and tree shrines: people threatened with danger. That's not the secure refuge, not the supreme refuge, that's not the refuge, having gone to which, you gain release from all suffering & stress.
But when, having gone to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha for refuge, you see with right discernment the four noble truths — stress, the cause of stress, the transcending of stress, & the noble eightfold path, the way to the stilling of stress: that's the secure refuge, that, the supreme refuge, that is the refuge, having gone to which, you gain release from all suffering & stress.
193
It's hard to come by a thoroughbred of a man. It's simply not true that he's born everywhere. Wherever he's born, an enlightened one, the family prospers, is happy.
194
A blessing:
the arising of Awakened Ones. A blessing:
the teaching of true Dhamma. A blessing:
the concord of the Sangha. The austerity of those in concord is a blessing.
195-196
If you worship those
worthy of worship, — Awakened Ones or
their disciples — who've transcended objectifications, lamentation, & grief, who are unendangered, fearless, unbound: there's no measure for reckoning that your merit's 'this much.'