“If, bhikkhus, others speak in dispraise of me, or in dispraise of the Dhamma, or in dispraise of the Sangha, you should not give way to resentment, displeasure, or animosity against them in your heart. For if you were to become angry or upset in such a situation, you would only be creating an obstacle for yourselves … If, bhikkhus, others speak in dispraise of me, or in dispraise of the Dhamma, or in dispraise of the Sangha, you should unravel what is false and point it out as false, saying: ‘For such and such a reason this is false, this is untrue, there is no such thing in us, this is not found among us.’
“And if, bhikkhus, others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should not give way to jubilation, joy, and exultation in your heart. For if you were to become jubilant, joyful, and exultant in such a situation, you would only be creating an obstacle for yourselves. If others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should acknowledge what is fact as fact, saying: ‘For such and such a reason this is a fact, this is true, there is such a thing in us, this is found among us.’” – DN 1
“Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra tumhehi na āghāto na appaccayo na cetaso anabhiraddhi karaṇīyā. Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra ce tumhe assatha kupitā vā anattamanā vā, tumhaṁ yevassa tena antarāyo …“Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā avaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra tumhehi abhūtaṁ abhūtato nibbeṭhetabbaṁ: ‘itipetaṁ abhūtaṁ, itipetaṁ atacchaṁ, natthi cetaṁ amhesu, na ca panetaṁ amhesu saṁvijjatī’ti.
“Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra tumhehi na ānando na somanassaṁ na cetaso uppilāvitattaṁ karaṇīyaṁ. Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra ce tumhe assatha ānandino sumanā uppilāvitā tumhaṁ yevassa tena antarāyo. Mamaṁ vā, bhikkhave, pare vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, dhammassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, saṅghassa vā vaṇṇaṁ bhāseyyuṁ, tatra tumhehi bhūtaṁ bhūtato paṭijānitabbaṁ: ‘itipetaṁ bhūtaṁ, itipetaṁ tacchaṁ, atthi cetaṁ amhesu, saṁvijjati ca panetaṁ amhesū’ti.”
ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြလျှင် ထို (ပြောကြရာ) ၌ သင်တို့သည် ရန်ငြိုးထားခြင်း နှလုံးမသာခြင်း စိတ်မကျေချမ်းခြင်း မဖြစ်စေသင်။ ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြရာ၌ သင်တို့သည် အမျက်ထွက်ကြလျှင် နှလုံးမသာကြလျှင် သင်တို့အားသာလျှင် အန္တရာယ် ဖြစ်ရာ၏။
ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏ အပြစ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြရာ၌ “ဤစကားသည် ဤအကြောင်းကြောင့်လည်း မဟုတ်၊ ဤအကြောင်းကြောင့်လည်း မမှန်၊ စင်စစ်အားဖြင့် ဤအပြစ်သည် ငါတို့၌ ထင်ရှားမရှိ”ဟု မဟုတ်သည်ကို မဟုတ်သည့်အတိုင်း သင်တို့ ဖြေရှင်းရမည်။
ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြလျှင် ထို (ပြောကြရာ) ၌ သင်တို့သည် နှစ်သက်ခြင်း ဝမ်းသာခြင်း စိတ်တက်ကြွခြင်း မဖြစ်စေသင်။ ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြရာ၌ သင်တို့သည် နှစ်သက်ကြလျှင် ဝမ်းသာကြလျှင် စိတ်တက်ကြွကြလျှင် သင်တို့အားသာလျှင် အန္တရာယ်ဖြစ်ရာ၏။ ရဟန်းတို့ သူတစ်ပါးတို့သည် ငါ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ တရား၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ သံဃာ၏ဂုဏ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ ပြောကြရာ၌ “ဤစကားသည် ဤအကြောင်းကြောင့်လည်းဟုတ်ပေ၏၊ ဤအကြောင်းကြောင့်လည်း မှန်ပေ၏၊ စင်စစ်အားဖြင့် ဤဂုဏ်သည် ငါတို့၌ ထင်ရှားရှိပေ၏”ဟုဟုတ်မှန်သည်ကိုဟုတ်မှန်သည့်အတိုင်း သင်တို့ ဝန်ခံရမည်။
“Này các Tỷ-kheo, nếu có người hủy báng Ta, hủy báng Pháp hay hủy báng Tăng, các ngươi chớ có vì vậy sanh lòng công phẫn, tức tối, tâm sanh phiền muộn. Này các Tỷ-kheo, nếu có người hủy báng Ta, hủy báng Pháp hay hủy báng Tăng, và nếu các ngươi sanh lòng công phẫn, tức tối, tâm sanh phiền muộn, thời như vậy sẽ có hại cho các ngươi … Này các Tỷ-kheo, khi có người hủy báng Ta, hủy báng Pháp hay hủy báng Tăng, các ngươi phải nói rõ những điểm không đúng sự thật là không đúng sự thật: “Như thế này, điểm này không đúng sự thật; như thế này, điểm này không chính xác; việc này không có giữa chúng tôi; việc này không xảy ra giữa chúng tôi.
“Này các Tỷ-kheo, nếu có người tán thán Ta, tán thán Pháp, hay tán thán Tăng, thời các ngươi không nên hoan hỷ, vui mừng, tâm không nên thích thú. Này các Tỷ-kheo, nếu có người tán thán ta, tán thán Pháp hay tán thán Tăng, mà nếu các ngươi hoan hỷ, vui mừng và thích thú thời sẽ có hại cho các ngươi. Này các Tỷ-kheo, nếu có người tán thán Ta, tán thán Pháp hay tán thán Tăng, thời các ngươi hãy công nhận những gì đúng sự thật là đúng sự thật: “Như thế này, điểm này đúng sự thật, như thế này, điểm này chính xác, việc này có giữa chúng tôi, việc này đã xảy ra giữa chúng tôi”.
「比丘們！如果他人不稱讚我、不稱讚法、不稱讚僧團，在那裡，你們應該不作嫌恨、不滿、心的憤怒。比丘們！如果他人不稱讚我、不稱讚法、不稱讚僧團，在那裡，如果你們被激怒或不滿，你們因此會有障礙 … 比丘們！如果他人不稱讚我、不稱讚法、不稱讚僧團，在那裡，你們應該從不實處解開不實者［而說］：『像這樣，這是不實的，像這樣，這是非事實，在我們之中沒有這個，又，在我們之中不存在這個。』
「比丘們！如果他人稱讚我、稱讚法、稱讚僧團，在那裡，你們應該不作歡喜、喜悅、心的浮揚。比丘們！如果他人稱讚我、稱讚法、稱讚僧團，在那裡，如果你們有歡喜、高興、浮揚，你們因此會有障礙。比丘們！如果他人稱讚我、稱讚法、稱讚僧團，在那裡，你們應該從真實處解開真實者［而說］：『像這樣，這是真實的，像這樣，這是事實，在我們之中有這個，又，在我們之中存在這個。』」
Top: Ashy Drongo
Middle: White Wagtail
Bottom: Oriental Dollarbird
©Ashin Sopāka 2017
“That which is called ‘mind’ and ‘mentality’ and ‘consciousness’ arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night. Just as a monkey roaming through a forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets that go and grabs still another, so too that which is called ‘mind’ and ‘mentality’ and ‘consciousness’ arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night.” – SN 12.61
“Còn cái gọi là tâm này, là ý này, là thức này, này các Tỷ-kheo, cả đêm và ngày, khởi lên là khác, diệt đi là khác. Này các Tỷ-kheo, ví như một con khỉ trong khi đi lại trong rừng núi, nắm lấy một nhành cây, bỏ nhành cây ấy xuống, nó nắm giữ một nhành khác. Cũng vậy, này các Tỷ-kheo, cái gọi là tâm, là ý, là thức này cả đêm và ngày, khởi lên là khác, diệt đi là khác.”
