增支部第 9 集（Sujato 英译）第 18 阅读页 · AN9.18 · The Sabbath with Nine Factors

Numbered Discourses 9.18Numbered Discourses 9.182. The Lion’s Roar2. The Lion’s Roar

The Sabbath with Nine FactorsThe Sabbath with Nine Factors“Mendicants, the observance of the sabbath with its nine factors is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful.“Mendicants, the observance of the sabbath with its nine factors is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful.And how should it be observed?And how should it be observed?

It’s when a noble disciple reflects:It’s when a noble disciple reflects:‘As long as they live, the perfected ones give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. They are scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings.‘As long as they live, the perfected ones give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. They are scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings.I, too, for this day and night will give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. I’ll be scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings.I, too, for this day and night will give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. I’ll be scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings.

I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.’I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.’This is its first factor. …This is its first factor. …‘As long as they live, the perfected ones give up high and luxurious beds. They sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat.‘As long as they live, the perfected ones give up high and luxurious beds. They sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat.

I, too, for this day and night will give up high and luxurious beds. I’ll sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat.I, too, for this day and night will give up high and luxurious beds. I’ll sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat.I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.’I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.’This is its eighth factor.This is its eighth factor.

They meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.They meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.This is its ninth factor.This is its ninth factor.The observance of the sabbath with its nine factors in this way is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful.”The observance of the sabbath with its nine factors in this way is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful.”