相应部第 17 相应（Sujato 英译）第 28 阅读页 · SN17.35 · Shortly After He Left

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Shortly After He LeftShortly After He LeftAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left.There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta:There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta:

“Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.“Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.It’s like a banana plant …It’s like a banana plant …or a bamboo …or a bamboo …

or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall …or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall …It’s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall.It’s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall.In the same way, possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.In the same way, possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.

So grim are possessions, honor, and popularity.So grim are possessions, honor, and popularity.That’s how you should train.”That’s how you should train.”That is what the Buddha said.That is what the Buddha said.

Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:“The banana plant is destroyed by its own fruit,“The banana plant is destroyed by its own fruit,as are the bamboo and the reed.as are the bamboo and the reed.

Honor destroys a reprobate,Honor destroys a reprobate,as pregnancy destroys a mule.”as pregnancy destroys a mule.”