Phẩm Pháp Trụ

Na tena hoti dhammaṭṭho,

yenatthaṁ sāhasā naye;

Yo ca atthaṁ anatthañca,

ubho niccheyya paṇḍito.

Asāhasena dhammena,

samena nayatī pare;

Dhammassa gutto medhāvī,

“dhammaṭṭho”ti pavuccati.

Chabbaggiyavatthu

Na tena paṇḍito hoti,

yāvatā bahu bhāsati;

Khemī averī abhayo,

“paṇḍito”ti pavuccati.

Ekudānakhīṇāsavavatthu

Na tāvatā dhammadharo,

yāvatā bahu bhāsati;

Yo ca appampi sutvāna,

dhammaṁ kāyena passati;

Sa ve dhammadharo hoti,

yo dhammaṁ nappamajjati.

Lakuṇḍakabhaddiyattheravatthu

Na tena thero so hoti,

yenassa palitaṁ siro;

Paripakko vayo tassa,

“moghajiṇṇo”ti vuccati.

Yamhi saccañca dhammo ca,

ahiṁsā saṁyamo damo;

Sa ve vantamalo dhīro,

“thero” iti pavuccati.

Sambahulabhikkhuvatthu

Na vākkaraṇamattena,

vaṇṇapokkharatāya vā;

Sādhurūpo naro hoti,

issukī maccharī saṭho.

Yassa cetaṁ samucchinnaṁ,

mūlaghaccaṁ samūhataṁ;

Sa vantadoso medhāvī,

“sādhurūpo”ti vuccati.

Hatthakavatthu

Na muṇḍakena samaṇo,

abbato alikaṁ bhaṇaṁ;

Icchālobhasamāpanno,

samaṇo kiṁ bhavissati.

Yo ca sameti pāpāni,

aṇuṁthūlāni sabbaso;

Samitattā hi pāpānaṁ,

“samaṇo”ti pavuccati.

Aññatarabrāhmaṇavatthu

Na tena bhikkhu so hoti,

yāvatā bhikkhate pare;

Vissaṁ dhammaṁ samādāya,

bhikkhu hoti na tāvatā.

Yodha puññañca pāpañca,

bāhetvā brahmacariyavā;

Saṅkhāya loke carati,

sa ve “bhikkhū”ti vuccati.

Titthiyavatthu

Na monena munī hoti,

mūḷharūpo aviddasu;

Yo ca tulaṁva paggayha,

varamādāya paṇḍito.

Pāpāni parivajjeti,

sa munī tena so muni;

Yo munāti ubho loke,

“muni” tena pavuccati.

Bālisikavatthu

Na tena ariyo hoti,

yena pāṇāni hiṁsati;

Ahiṁsā sabbapāṇānaṁ,

“ariyo”ti pavuccati.

Sambahulasīlādisampannabhikkhuvatthu

Na sīlabbatamattena,

bāhusaccena vā pana;

Atha vā samādhilābhena,

vivittasayanena vā.

Phusāmi nekkhammasukhaṁ,

aputhujjanasevitaṁ;

Bhikkhu vissāsamāpādi,

appatto āsavakkhayaṁ.

Dhammaṭṭhavaggo ekūnavīsatimo.

SC 256One who hastily assesses what is good
Is not established in Dhamma.
The wise one investigates both good and bad,

SC 257And judges others thoughtfully, justly, and
impartially.
This intelligent one, this protector of the Dhamma,
Is called established in the Dhamma.

SC 258One is not wise in virtue of speaking much.
One who is called wise is peaceful, friendly, and
fearless.

SC 259One does not uphold the Dhamma simply by many
words.
One upholds the Dhamma when it is not neglected;
When, having heard but a little, observes it with
one’s own body.

SC 260One is not an elder just by a gray head.
Ripe only in years, he is called grown old in vain.

SC 261But one in whom there is truth and Dhamma,
Non-violence, restraint, and moderation,
With impurities discarded,
This wise one is truly called elder.

SC 262Not by eloquence or lotus-like beauty,
does one who is envious, selfish, and deceitful,
become exemplary.

SC 263The wise one who has cut off, destroyed at the root,
and removed these;
Who has discarded ill will altogether;
This one is called exemplary.

SC 264Not by a bald head is one a renunciant—
One who does not observe the precepts, who lies.
What renunciant is possessed by longing and greed!

SC 265But one who subdues evil thoroughly, whether big
or small,
Is by so doing truly called renunciant.

SC 266One is not a monk just by begging from another.
Having undertaken a foul tradition, one is not then
a monk.

SC 267But the one who sets aside both merit and demerit,
who leads a holy life,
Who lives in the world perceptively,
This one is truly is called monk.

SC 268One deluded and ignorant is not a sage by silence.
But one who takes up the best as if holding a scale is
wise.

SC 269One who avoids evils thereby is a sage.
One who knows both best and worst in the world is
thereby called sage.

SC 270One is not a noble by hurting living beings.
One who is gentle to all beings is thereby called
noble.

SC 271Neither by precept and virtue, nor by great
learning;
Neither by attaining samādhi, nor inhabiting a
solitary dwelling;

SC 272Nor by thinking, “I touch the happiness of
renunciation, unknown to the ordinary,” Do you, O monk, find contentment,
If you have not attained the dissolution of the
toxins.