[无量香光 · 显密文库 · 手机站]
fowap.goodweb.net.cn
{返回首页}


The Monk W hose Body Stunk
 
{返回 Dhammapada Stories 文集}
{返回网页版}
点击:1795

The Monk W hose Body Stunk

NCE WHEN THE BUDDHA was wandering about teaching and preaching, he came upon a community of his monks in which one of them was suffering from a debilitating skin disease. Sores that continually oozed blood and pus covered his body from head to foot. Too weak to wash himself or his stained robes, a nauseating stench had settled about him which none of his brother monks could bear. And so he was left alone, unable to fend for himself. It was in this pitiful state that the Buddha found him and immediately proceeded to look after him.

First, the Buddha went to boil some water and brought it back to bathe the monk. Then, as he was trying to carry the monk outside to bathe him, the other monks saw him and came to help. They all took hold of the couch that the sick monk was lying on and carried him to a place where he was gently scrubbed clean. In the meantime, his clothes were taken away and washed. When they were dry, they dressed the sick monk in fresh clean robes, which made him also feel clean and fresh.

The Buddha then admonished the bhikkhus present, saying, “Bhikkhus, here you have no mother or father to take care of you when you are sick. Who will take care of you then if you don't take care of one another? Remember whenever you look after a sick person, it is as if you were looking after me myself.”

He then followed with a small sermon in which he said that although it was true that the body would one day be as useless as a fallen log, while it was still alive, it should be taken care of.

He then followed with a small sermon in which he said that although it was true that the body would one day be as useless as a fallen log, while it was still alive, it should be taken care of.

-----------------------------------
Before long, alas, this body will lie lifeless on the
ground, discarded like a useless log.
Verse 41


{返回 Dhammapada Stories 文集}
{返回网页版}
{返回首页}

上一篇:A Father who became a Mother
下一篇:The Fickle-Minded Monk
 The Fickle-Minded Monk
 The Cure for Death
 The Unfortunate Hunter
 The Wandering Mind
 The Self-Pampered Monk
 Bhikkhu or Brahmana?
 The Cruel Butcher
 The Lady and the Ogress
 The Power of Loving Kindness
 The Abusive Brothers
全文 标题
 
【佛教文章随机阅读】
 宗喀巴大师的菩提道[栏目:恒强法师]
 永明延寿禅修思想境界的诗证——试以《永明山居诗》为中心 (吴正荣)[栏目:永明延寿大师思想研究]
 让心灵释然[栏目:延参法师文集]
 如何化解省肌无力症?[栏目:放生健康·净空法师问答]
 印光大师的棒喝教学[栏目:余池明居士]
 相应45经 无常经[栏目:相应部 22.蕴相应]
 平日少梦,禅修后多梦,且做梦时也知在做梦,是何因?[栏目:海云继梦·禅修释疑]
 灵岩甘露第二集 参、力行培福[栏目:妙莲法师]
 谈谈禅宗——讲於上海佛教居士林[栏目:真禅法师]
 可以烧纸钱烧元宝供养佛菩萨吗?[栏目:开愿法师]


{返回首页}

△TOP

- 手机版 -
[无量香光·显密文库·佛教文集]
教育、非赢利、公益性的佛教文化传播
白玛若拙佛教文化传播工作室制作
www.goodweb.net.cn Copyrights reserved
(2003-2015)
站长信箱:yjp990@163.com