தம்மபதம்

எமது பரம குருவான பாக்கியமுள்ள புத்த பகவான் எம் மீது கொண்ட மகா கருணையினாலேயே இந்த உத்தம
தர்மத்தினை மொழிந்தருளினார். அந்த மகா வழிகாட்டியின் சாசனமாகவே இந்த தர்மம் விளங்குகிறது. சுத்த (சூத்திர
போதனைகள்), கெய்ய (போதனை மற்றும் செய்யுள் எனும் இரண்டும் உள்ளடங்கியவை), வெய்யாகரண (ஆரிய
சத்தியங்களை மென்மேலும் பகுத்து மொழிந்திருக்கும் போதனைகள்), காதா (செய்யுள்கள்), உதான (முயற்சியின்றி
சுயமாக உதிரும் வார்த்தைகள்), இதிவுத்தக (நிச்சயப்படுத்தி மொழிந்த போதனைகள்), ஜாதக (பகவானது முற்பிறப்பு
வரலாறுகள்), அப்பூததம்ம (ஆச்சரியமிக்க புதினமான விடயங்கள் கொண்ட பகுதி), வேதள்ள (வினா விடை
வடிவிலானவை) என இந்த மகா வழிகாட்டியின் சாசனம் ஒன்பது அங்கங்களை உடையதாக திகழ்கிறது.

Bamboo: destroyed by its own fruit {evil}

The practice of those who live the Doctrine-True Practice of The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata,
worthy ones, noble:
whoever maligns it
— a dullard,
	inspired by evil view —
bears fruit for his own destruction,
like the fruiting of the bamboo.

The Stone Sliver

I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Rajagaha at the Maddakucchi
Deer Reserve. Now at that time his foot had been pierced by a stone
sliver. Excruciating were the bodily feelings that developed within him —
painful, fierce, sharp, wracking, repellent, disagreeable — but he
endured them mindful, alert, & unperturbed. Having had his outer
robe folded in four and laid out, he lay down on his right side in the
lion’s posture — with one foot placed on top of the other — mindful
& alert.

Then the Evil One went to the Blessed One and recited this verse in his presence:

Are you lying there in a stupor,
or drunk on poetry?
Are your goals so very few?
All alone in a secluded lodging,
what is this dreamer, this sleepy-face?

[The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata:]

I lie here,
not in a stupor,
nor drunk on poetry.
My goal attained,
I am sorrow-free.
All alone in a secluded lodging,
I lie down with sympathy
for all beings.
	
Even those pierced in the chest
with an arrow,
their hearts rapidly,
rapidly
beating:
even they with their arrows
are able to sleep.
So why shouldn’t I,
with my arrow removed?
	
I’m not awake with worry,
nor afraid to sleep.
Days & nights
don’t oppress me.
I see no threat of decline
in any world at all.
That’s why I sleep
with sympathy
for all beings.

Then the Evil One — sad & dejected at realizing, “The
Blessed One knows me; the One Well-Gone knows me” — vanished right
there.

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A Brief Summary of the The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata ’s Teachings

The Four Noble Truths

Shortly after his Awakening,  The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata   delivered his first sermon, in which he laid out the essential framework upon which all his later teachings were based. This framework consists of the Four Noble Truths, four fundamental principles of nature (Doctrine-Practice of The Path Shown by  The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata ) that emerged from the  The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata ’s
radically honest and penetrating assessment of the human condition. He
taught these truths not as metaphysical theories or as articles of
faith, but as categories by which we should frame our direct experience
in a way that conduces to Awakening:

1. Dukkha: suffering, unsatisfactoriness, discontent, stress;
2. The cause of dukkha: the cause of this dissatisfaction iscraving (tanha) for sensuality, for states of becoming, and states of no becoming;
3. The cessation of dukkha: the relinquishment of that craving;
4. The path of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: the Noble Eightfold Path of right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

Because of our ignorance (avijja) of these Noble Truths, because of our inexperience in framing the world in their terms, we remain bound to samsara,
the wearisome cycle of birth, aging, illness, death, and rebirth.
Craving propels this process onward, from one moment to the next and
over the course of countless lifetimes, in accordance with kamma,
the universal law of cause and effect. According to this immutable law,
every action that one performs in the present moment — whether by body,
speech, or mind itself — eventually bears fruit according to its
skillfulness: act in unskillful and harmful ways and unhappiness is
bound to follow; act skillfully and happiness will ultimately ensue. As
long as one remains ignorant of this principle, one is doomed to an
aimless existence: happy one moment, in despair the next; enjoying one
lifetime in heaven, the next in hell.

 The Blessed,Noble,Awakened One-The Tathagata 
discovered that gaining release from samsara requires assigning to each
of the Noble Truths a specific task: the first Noble Truth is to be comprehended; the second, abandoned; the third, realized; the fourth, developed.
The full realization of the third Noble Truth paves the way for
Awakening: the end of ignorance, craving, suffering, and kamma itself;
the direct penetration to the transcendent freedom and supreme happiness
that stands as the final goal of all the Buddha’s teachings; the
Unconditioned, the Deathless, Unbinding — Nibbana .