..续本文上一页o a man or woman who is angry."

　　An angry person is ugly & sleeps poorly.

　　Gaining a profit, he turns it into a loss,

　　having done damage with word & deed.

　　A person overwhelmed with anger

　　 destroys his wealth.

　　Maddened with anger,

　　 he destroys his status.

　　Relatives, friends, & colleagues avoid him.

　　 Anger brings loss.

　　 Anger inflames the mind.

　　He doesn”t realize

　　that his danger is born from within.

　　 An angry person doesn”t know his own benefit.

　　 An angry person doesn”t see the Dhamma.

　　A man conquered by anger is in a mass of darkness.

　　He takes pleasure in bad deeds as if they were good,

　　but later, when his anger is gone,

　　he suffers as if burned with fire.

　　He is spoiled, blotted out,

　　like fire enveloped in smoke.

　　When anger spreads,

　　when a man becomes angry,

　　he has no shame, no fear of evil,

　　is not respectful in speech.

　　For a person overcome with anger,

　　nothing gives light.

　　I”ll list the deeds that bring remorse,

　　that are far from the teachings.

　　 Listen!

　　An angry person &nbs, p;kills his father,

　　 kills his mother,

　　 kills Brahmans

　　 & people run-of-the-mill.

　　It”s because of a mother”s devotion

　　that one sees the world,

　　yet an angry run-of-the-mill person

　　can kill this giver of life.

　　Like oneself, all beings hold themselves most dear,

　　yet an angry person, deranged,

　　can kill himself in many ways:

　　with a sword, taking poison,

　　hanging himself by a rope in a mountain glen.

　　Doing these deeds

　　that kill beings and do violence to himself,

　　the angry person doesn”t realize that he”s ruined.

　　This snare of Mara, in the form of anger,

　　dwelling in the cave of the heart:

　　cut it out with self-control,

　　discernment, persistence, right view.

　　The wise man would cut out

　　each & every form of unskillfulness.

　　Train yourselves:

　　”May we not be blotted out.”

　　Free from anger & untroubled,

　　free from greed, without longing,

　　tamed, your anger abandoned,

　　free from fermentation,

　　 you will be unbound.

　　— AN 7.60

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　　§ 2.9. I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Rajagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels” Sanctuary. Then the brahman Akkosaka ("Insulter") Bharadvaja heard that a brahman of the Bharadvaja clan had gone forth from the home life into homelessness in the presence of the Blessed One. Angered & displeased, he went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, insulted & cursed him with rude, harsh words.

　　When this was said, the Blessed One said to him: "What do you think, brahman: Do friends & colleagues, relatives & kinsmen come to you as guests

　　"

　　"Yes, Master Gotama, sometimes friends & colleagues, relatives & kinsmen come to me as guests."

　　"And what do you think: Do you serve them with staple & non-staple foods & delicacies

　　"

　　"Yes, sometimes I serve them with staple & non-staple foods & delicacies."

　　"And if they don”t accept them, to whom do those foods belong

　　"

　　"If they don”t accept them, Master Gotama, those foods are all mine."

　　"In the same way, brahman, that with which you have insulted me, who is not insulting; that with which you have taunted me, who is not taunting; that with which you have berated me, who is not berating: that I don”t accept from you. It”s all yours, brahman. It”s all yours.

　　"Whoever returns insult to one who is insulting, returns taunts to one who is taunting, returns a berating to one who is berating, is said to be eating together, sharing company, with that person. But I am neither eating together nor sharing your company, brahman. It”s all yours. It”s all yours."

　　"The king together with his court know this of Master Gotama — ”Gotama the contemplative is an arahant” — and yet still Master Gotama gets angry."

　　[The Buddha:]

　　Whence is there anger

　　for one f…

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