赤马经(Rohitassa Sutta)

作者:mindfulness  于 2014-1-31 12:37 发表于 最热闹的华人社交网络--贝壳村

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赤马经(Rohitassa Sutta)
 
相应部2相应26经/赤马经(天子相应/有偈篇/只夜)(庄春江译)
  起源于舍卫城。
在一旁站好后,赤马天子对世尊这么说:
「大德!能够以行走而知道,或看到,或到达,大德!那不被生、不老去、不死去;不去世、不再生之处的世界之边吗?」
「朋友!我说,不能够以行走而知道,或看到,或到达那不被生、不老去、不死去;不去世、不再生之处的世界之边。」
「不可思议啊,大德!未曾有啊,大德!
  大德!这被世尊多么善说:『朋友!我说,不能够以行走而知道,或看到,或到达那不被生、不老去、不死去;不去世、不再生之处的世界之边。』
  大德!从前,我是名为赤马的仙人,伯渣的儿子,有神通,能在空中行。
  大德!我的速度是这样:犹如有善学、灵巧、被彻底调练的、弓术善巧的坚固法弓箭手,能以轻的箭容易地射穿棕榈树影;大德!我的一跨步是这样:犹如从东海到西海。
  大德!我这样的欲求生起:『我将以行走到达世界之边。 』
  大德!具备那样的速度与那样的跨步,我除了吃、喝、咀嚼、品尝,大小便行为,睡觉、排除疲劳外,一百年的寿命;活了一百年;走了一百年后,没到达世界之边,在途中就死了。
  不可思议啊,大德!未曾有啊,大德!
  大德!这被世尊多么善说:『朋友!我说,不能够以行走而知道,或看到,或到达那不被生、不老去、不死去;不去世、不再生之处的世界之边。』」
「然而,朋友!我说,没到达世界之边则得不到苦的结束。
  又,朋友!就在这一噚之长,有想、有心的身体上,我安立世界、世界集、世界灭、导向世界灭之道迹。 」
「任何时候,以行走不能到达世界之边,
而没到达世界之边,则没有苦的解脱。
因此,确实,世间知者、善慧者到达世界边,梵行已完成,
寂静者知道世界之边后,对这世间与其它的不希求。 」
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SN 2.26 Rohitassa Sutta:
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi, in Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then Rohitassa, the son of a deva, in the far extreme of the night, his extreme radiance lighting up the entirety of Jeta's Grove, went to the Blessed One. On arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, he stood to one side. As he was standing there he said to the Blessed One: "Is it possible, lord, by traveling, to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away or reappear?"
"I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear."
"It is amazing, lord, and awesome, how well that has been said by the Blessed One: 'I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear.' Once I was a seer named Rohitassa, a student of Bhoja, a powerful sky-walker. My speed was as fast as that of a strong archer — well-trained, a practiced hand, a practiced sharp-shooter — shooting a light arrow across the shadow of a palm tree. My stride stretched as far as the east sea is from the west. To me, endowed with such speed, such a stride, there came the desire: 'I will go traveling to the end of the cosmos.' I — with a one-hundred year life, a one-hundred year span — spent one hundred years traveling — apart from the time spent on eating, drinking, chewing & tasting, urinating & defecating, and sleeping to fight off weariness — but without reaching the end of the cosmos I died along the way. So it is amazing, lord, and awesome, how well that has been said by the Blessed One: 'I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear.'"
[When this was said, the Blessed One responded:] "I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear. But at the same time, I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos. Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos."
It's not to be reached by traveling, the end of the cosmos — regardless. And it's not without reaching the end of the cosmos that there is release from suffering & stress. So, truly, the wise one, an expert with regard to the cosmos, a knower of the end of the cosmos, having fulfilled the holy life, calmed, knowing the cosmos' end, doesn't long for this cosmos or for any other.

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