SN 7.1 / SN i 160//SN i 344 Dhanañjānīsutta

So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. Now at that time a certain brahmin lady of the Bhāradvāja clan named Dhanañjānī was devoted to the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saṅgha. Once, while she was bringing her husband his meal she tripped and spoke these words of inspiration three times:

***

“Homage to that Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha!

***

Homage to that Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha!

Homage to that Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha!”

***

When she said this, the brahmin said to Dhanañjānī: “That’d be right. For the slightest thing this wretched lady spouts out praise for that bald ascetic. Right now, wretched woman, I’m going to refute your teacher’s doctrine!” “Brahmin, I don’t see anyone in this world—with its gods, Māras, and Brahmās, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—who can refute the doctrine of the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. But anyway, you should go. When you’ve gone you’ll understand.”

***

Then the brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan, angry and upset, went to the Buddha and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and addressed the Buddha in verse:

***

“When what is incinerated do you sleep at ease?
When what is incinerated is there no sorrow?
What is the one thing
whose killing you approve?”

“When anger’s incinerated you sleep at ease.
When anger’s incinerated there is no sorrow.
O brahmin, anger has a poisoned root
and a honey tip.
The noble ones praise its killing,
for when it’s incinerated there is no sorrow.”

***

When he said this, the brahmin said to the Buddha: “Excellent, Master Gotama! Excellent! As if he was righting the overturned, or revealing the hidden, or pointing out the path to the lost, or lighting a lamp in the dark so people with good eyes can see what’s there, Master Gotama has made the teaching clear in many ways. I go for refuge to Master Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha. Sir, may I receive the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence?”

****

And the brahmin received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence. Not long after his ordination, Venerable Bhāradvāja, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme end of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which people from good families rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. He understood: “Rebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is no return to any state of existence.” And Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the perfected.

****

SN 7.2 / SN i 161//SN i 347 Akkosasutta - The Abuser

At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. The brahmin Bharadvāja the Rude heard a rumor to the effect that: “A brahmin of the Bharadvāja clan has gone forth from the lay life to homelessness in the presence of the ascetic Gotama!” Angry and displeased he went to the Buddha and abused and insulted him with rude, harsh words. When he had spoken, the Buddha said to him:

^^^^^^

“What do you think, brahmin? Do friends and colleagues, relatives and family members, and guests still come to visit you?” “Sometimes they do, Master Gotama.” “Do you then serve them with a variety of foods and savories?” “Sometimes I do.” “But if they don’t accept it, brahmin, who does it belong to?” “In that case it still belongs to me.” “In the same way, brahmin, when you abuse, harass, and attack us who do not abuse, harass, and attack, we don’t accept it. It still belongs to you, brahmin, it still belongs to you!

^^^^^

Someone who, when abused, harassed, and attacked, abuses, harasses, and attacks in return is said to eat the food and have a reaction to it. But we neither eat your food nor do we have a reaction to it. It still belongs to you, brahmin, it still belongs to you!” “The king and his retinue believe that Master Gotama is a perfected one. And yet he still gets angry.”

^^^^^

"For one without anger, tamed, living simply,
freed by right knowledge,
at peace, poised:
where would anger come from?

^^^^^

When you get angry at an angry person
you just make things worse for yourself.
When you don’t get angry at an angry person
you win a battle hard to win.

^^^^^

When you know that the other is angry,
you act for the good of both
yourself and the other
if you’re mindful and stay calm.

^^^^

People unskilled in the teaching
consider one who heals both
oneself and the other
to be a fool.”

^^^^

When he had spoken, Bhāradvāja the Rude said to the Buddha: “Excellent, Master Gotama! … I go for refuge to Master Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha. Sir, may I receive the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence?”

^^^^

And the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Rude received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence. Not long after his ordination, Venerable Bhāradvāja the Rude, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme end of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which people from good families rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. He understood: “Rebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is no return to any state of existence.” And Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the perfected.

^^^^

SN 7.3

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^

^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

^^^^

webmasters: Nguyễn Văn Hoà & Minh Hạnh

 | | trở về đầu trang | Home page |