At Savatthi. Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: |
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Then the Blessed One, on hearing the word "newly ordained," on hearing the word "diseased," and realizing that the monk was not well known, went to him. The monk saw the Blessed One coming from afar and, on seeing him, stirred in his bed. |
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The Blessed One sat down on a seat made ready and said to the monk, |
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"I am not getting better, lord. I am not comfortable. My extreme pains are increasing, not lessening. There are signs of their increasing, and not of their lessening." |
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-Then I hope you have no anxiety, monk. I hope you have no anguish. |
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Yes, lord, I do have not a small amount of anxiety, not a small amount of anguish. |
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I hope you can't fault yourself with regard to your virtue. |
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No, lord, I can't fault myself with regard to my virtue. |
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Then what are you anxious about? What is your anguish? |
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I understand that the Blessed One has not taught the Dhamma with purity of virtue as its goal. |
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If you understand that I have not taught the Dhamma with purity of virtue as its goal, then for what goal do you understand that I have taught the Dhamma? |
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Good, good, monk. It's good that you understand that I have taught the Dhamma with total Unbinding through lack of clinging as its goal, for I have taught the Dhamma with total Unbinding through lack of clinging as its goal. |
Lành thay, lành thay, này Tỷ-kheo! Lành thay, này Tỷ-kheo! Ông hiểu pháp Ta dạy là với mục đích tịch tịnh hoàn toàn, không có chấp thủ. |
What do you think, monk: Is the eye constant or inconstant? |
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-"Inconstant, lord." |
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"And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?" |
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"Stressful, lord." |
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And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'? |
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"No, lord." |
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"...Is the ear constant or inconstant?" "Inconstant, lord." |
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Seeing thus, the instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with the ear, disenchanted with the nose, disenchanted with the tongue, disenchanted with the body, disenchanted with the intellect. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world. |
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That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monk delighted in the Blessed One's words. And while this explanation was being given, the mind of that monk, through no clinging,1 was fully released from fermentations. |
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Notes 1. Or: "not being sustained." See also: SN 35.74. |
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Cập nhập ngày: Thứ Sáu 08-11-2006 Kỹ thuật trình bày: Minh Hạnh & Thiện Pháp |