时间：11/22/2025 11/23/2025
地点：星河禅修中心
主讲：黄云全
佛法修行
习气难断的罗汉
习气在人的身上，就像装过酒的酒瓶，虽然将酒倒光了，但瓶中仍有酒味一样的难以断除。
像毕陵伽婆蹉阿罗汉就是一个例子。
毕陵伽婆蹉阿罗汉曾经五百次投生在高贵的婆罗门家，所以造成他骄傲轻慢的个性。
「你算什么东西？我可是五百世的贵人福种，你这个暴发户区区几十年又算什么！」
对于比家世的人，毕陵伽婆蹉阿罗汉总是用这种看不起的态度对待，就算修得阿罗汉后，他还是带有贵族的习气。
有一天，毕陵伽婆蹉来到恒河岸边观赏风景。恒河水神见有罗汉降临，连忙上来接驾，恭敬的说：
「尊敬的罗汉，难得的圣贤，我万分荣幸……」
「搞什么？你这个小奴仆，还不快快断流，让我过河！」
恒河水神的话还没说完就被打断了，水神气得浑身颤抖，生气地说：「你这没礼貌的家伙，给我等着！」
「小奴仆，我难道怕你不成？」
恒河水神立即跑去精舍向佛陀告状：
「世尊，有个罗汉圣者到到恒河水边，我以礼待之，他竟骂我小奴仆，叫我断流让他过，实在无法无天啊！」
佛陀静静听着，然后说道：「你不要生气了，我让他向你赔礼道歉，让他忏悔自己的过错。」说完佛陀便和水神一起来到恒河岸边。
毕陵伽婆蹉听到佛陀的教诲，便向水神道歉：
「小奴仆，对不起！」
「佛陀，您看！他还是叫我小奴仆啊！」水神更加气愤了。
佛陀对水神说：「水神啊！毕陵伽婆蹉不是有意的，这是他累世的习气。」
水神只好无奈地回到恒河水宫去了。
佛陀转身对毕陵伽婆蹉说：「毕陵伽婆蹉啊！身为罗汉，坏习惯仍然未改。过去一个婆罗门一连骂了我五百次，他可痛快极了，以为我会生气，没想到我毫不生气。他又一连赞美我五百次，以为我会高兴，没想到我也毫无高兴之意，他只好走了。只要能断除烦恼和不良的习气，一切事情不管好坏都没有什么不同，根本不会影响到自己的心情啊！」
佛陀慈爱地教导毕陵伽婆蹉，希望他能除掉旧习气，成为一位真正的罗汉。
Date: 11/22/2025 11/23/2025
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Dharma Talk
The Arahant Whose Habits Were Hard to Break
Thus have I heard:
Habits in men are like a wine jar. Though the wine be poured out, the fragrance yet remains, difficult to remove.
Such was the case of the venerable Arahant Pi-ling-ka-po-tso (Pilindavatsa).
In five hundred past lives, he had been born into noble Brahmin households. Thus there remained within him the pride and arrogance of high caste.
When he met others of lesser birth, he would say:
“What are you to me? For five hundred generations I have been of noble seed. You, who have risen but in these few years, are nothing before me!”
Even after attaining Arahantship, this old habit clung to him still.
One day, Pi-ling-ka-po-tso came to the banks of the Ganges to gaze upon the flowing waters. The deity of the Ganges, seeing an Arahant approach, came forth to pay homage, saying:
“Revered Arahant, rare and holy one, I am deeply honored…”
Before he finished, Pi-ling-ka-po-tso interrupted, saying:
“What is this? You petty servant! Quickly cease your flow, that I may cross!”
Hearing this, the river deity trembled with anger and said:
“You ill-mannered one, wait and see!”
But Pi-ling-ka-po-tso replied:
“Servant! Do you think I fear you?”
In fury, the river deity went to the monastery and spoke to the Blessed One:
“World-honored One, an Arahant has come to the Ganges. Though I received him with reverence, he insulted me as a mere servant, and commanded that I stop my waters for him. This is lawless and beyond all measure!”
The Blessed One listened in silence, and then said gently:
“Be not angry. I shall have him confess his fault and ask your pardon.”
Thus the Blessed One came with the river deity to the bank of the Ganges.
There the Arahant, hearing the Buddha’s instruction, bowed and said:
“Forgive me, servant.”
The deity cried out in wrath:
“Blessed One, behold! He still calls me servant!”
The Blessed One said to the deity:
“River God, be not angered. Pi-ling-ka-po-tso speaks not with intent. This arises from the deep habit of many lives.”
The deity, hearing this, returned to his palace beneath the waters.
Then the Blessed One turned to the Arahant and said:
“Pi-ling-ka-po-tso, though you have attained the fruit of Arhatship, yet your habits of old remain.
Long ago, a Brahmin reviled me five hundred times. He thought I would grow angry, but I was not moved. Then he praised me five hundred times. He thought I would rejoice, but I felt no joy. Thus, finding no response, he departed.
If one truly cuts off afflictions and habits, then in the face of both insult and praise, all is the same. Nothing can disturb the mind.”
Thus the Blessed One, with compassion, instructed Pi-ling-ka-po-tso, hoping that he would abandon the remnants of old habits and become a true Arahant.
