南傳法句經 第四 華品（44～59偈）
法增比丘譯
（Dhammavaro Bhikkhu）
44、
誰知己與世1，
天界與地獄2？
誰悟善說法3？
如花匠選花。
1.世（Pathavi大地)：指人、餓鬼與畜生。
2.（六道輪迴）。
3.（三十七道品）
45、
修學知己世*，
天界與地獄，
修學悟善法，
如花匠選花。
（44，45兩偈合誦）
*（Sekha學人，修道人）。
46、
當觀色無常，
如泡如幻影，
斷魔欲花箭1，
死魔2無從見。
1.花箭：魔王花矢喻心為欲境所誘惑。
2.（Maccuraja死神）。
47、
採集百花卉*，
心生諸染著，
沉淪於生死，
洪流捲睡村。
*（欲樂）。
48、
採集百花卉，
心生諸染著，
貪欲無厭者，
死魔得所乘。
（47，48兩偈合誦）
49、
聖者*入村邑，
猶蜂入花間，
唯將花蜜取，
不損花色香。
*（Muni牟尼，寂然者，指沙門）。
50、
不舉他功過，
勿觀作未作，
唯觀己修行，
已修與未修。
51、
人若不奉行，
已說之善法，
無能得善果，
如美花無香。
52、
人若真奉行，
已說之善法，
必能得善果，
如美花芬香。
（51，52兩偈合誦）
53、
猶如集百花，
能嵌諸花鬘，
得生於人中，
應作諸善行。
54、
花香與檀香，
多伽羅1茉莉2，
諸香不逆揚，
戒香遍四方。
1.（Tagara桂香，不香、沒香）。
2.（Mallika小香花）。
55、
檀香多伽羅，
蓮花婆尸迦*，
於諸眾香中，
唯戒香最上。
*（Vassiki雨季花）。
56、
多伽羅檀香，
香氣實微弱，
戒香為最上，
香飄諸天上。
57、
持戒清淨行，
住於不放逸，
魔王無從知，
智者解脫處。
58、
廢棄眾穢土，
蓮花生其間，
見者心喜悅，
其花之芬芳。
59、
愚闇眾生中，
佛子生其間，
猶如彼香蓮，
智光照大千。
（58，59兩偈合誦）
Pupphavagga: Blossoms
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
44-45
Who will penetrate this earth & this realm of death with all its gods? Who will ferret out the well-taught Dhamma-saying, as the skillful flower-arranger the flower?
The learner-on-the-path will penetrate this earth & this realm of death with all its gods. The learner-on-the-path will ferret out the well-taught Dhamma-saying, as the skillful flower-arranger the flower.
46
Knowing this body is like foam, realizing its nature — a mirage — cutting out the blossoms of Mara, you go where the King of Death can't see.
47-48
The man immersed in gathering blossoms, his heart distracted: death sweeps him away — as a great flood, a village asleep.
The man immersed in gathering blossoms, his heart distracted, insatiable in sensual pleasures: the End-Maker holds him under his sway.
49
As a bee — without harming the blossom, its color, its fragrance — takes its nectar & flies away: so should the sage go through a village.
50
Focus, not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have & haven't done yourself.
51-52
Just like a blossom, bright colored but scentless: a well-spoken word is fruitless when not carried out.
Just like a blossom, bright colored & full of scent: a well-spoken word is fruitful when well carried out.
53
Just as from a heap of flowers many garland strands can be made, even so one born & mortal should do — with what's born & is mortal — many a skillful thing.
54-56
No flower's scent goes against the wind — not sandalwood, jasmine, tagara.
But the scent of the good does go against the wind. The person of integrity wafts a scent in every direction.
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, & jasmine: Among these scents, the scent of virtue is unsurpassed.
Next to nothing, this fragrance — sandalwood, tagara — while the scent of the virtuous wafts to the gods, supreme.
57
Those consummate in virtue, dwelling in heedfulness, released through right knowing: Mara can't follow their tracks.
58-59
As in a pile of rubbish cast by the side of a highway a lotus might grow clean-smelling pleasing the heart, so in the midst of the rubbish-like, people run-of-the-mill & blind, there dazzles with discernment the disciple of the Rightly Self-Awakened One.