MN 66 · Khotbah tentang Perumpamaan Burung Puyuh

Tokoh, tempat, dan gagasan utamanya

Bhikkhu Udāyī mengeluh tentang aturan latihan yang terasa membelenggu. Buddha menjawab lewat perumpamaan burung puyuh kecil yang terikat jerat ringan namun tetap terperangkap. Inilah Laṭukikopama Sutta.

TOKOH

Buddha

Guru yang menjelaskan perumpamaan burung puyuh untuk menjawab keluhan Udāyī.

TOKOH

Udāyī

Bhikkhu yang mengeluh tentang aturan latihan yang terasa membelenggu, dijawab Buddha lewat perumpamaan burung puyuh.

TEMPAT

Āpaṇa (negeri Aṅguttarāpa)

Hutan dekat kota Āpaṇa, tempat Buddha menyampaikan perumpamaan burung puyuh.

KONSEP

Jerat ringan bagi yang lemah batin

Sesuatu yang tampak sepele bisa jadi belenggu berat bagi batin yang lemah, seperti jerat rotan ringan yang mengikat burung puyuh kecil namun mudah ditembus gajah besar.

Visual pengantar Tiga Keranjang · bukan bagian dari teks kanonik.

Sinopsis singkat

Buddha mengenang bagaimana sebagian bhikkhu pernah keberatan ketika beliau meminta mereka meninggalkan makan pada malam hari. Dari persoalan sederhana tentang makanan, beliau menunjukkan bagaimana kemelekatan pada kesenangan kecil dapat menjadi penghalang besar. Perumpamaan burung puyuh yang terjerat tanaman rambat memperlihatkan bahwa sesuatu yang tampak ringan dapat menjadi belenggu mematikan bagi yang lemah, sedangkan sesuatu yang tampak berat tidak membelenggu orang yang kuat. Buddha lalu membedakan murid yang harus dibimbing dengan keras dari murid yang mudah diarahkan, dan membawa pembahasan menuju tingkat-tingkat meditasi di mana berbagai belenggu pengalaman secara bertahap dilepaskan.

BAGIAN 6

mn66:6.1 “Just now, sir, as I was in private retreat this thought came to mind:

mn66:6.2 ‘The Buddha has rid us of so many things that bring suffering and gifted us so many things that bring happiness!

mn66:6.3 He has rid us of so many unskillful things and gifted us so many skillful things!’

mn66:6.4 For we used to eat at dusk, at daybreak, and at the wrong time of day.

mn66:6.5 But then there came a time when the Buddha addressed the mendicants, saying,

mn66:6.6 ‘Please, mendicants, give up that meal at the wrong time of day.’

mn66:6.7 At that, sir, we became sad and upset,

mn66:6.8 ‘But these faithful householders give us delicious fresh and cooked foods at the wrong time of day. And the Blessed One tells us to give it up! The Holy One tells us to let it go!’

mn66:6.9 But when we considered our fondness and respect for the Buddha, and our sense of conscience and prudence, we gave up that meal at the wrong time of day.

mn66:6.10 Then we ate at dusk and daybreak.

mn66:6.11 But then there came a time when the Buddha addressed the mendicants, saying,

mn66:6.12 ‘Please, mendicants, give up that meal at the wrong time of night.’

mn66:6.13 At that, sir, we became sad and upset,

mn66:6.14 ‘But that’s considered the more delicious of the two meals. And the Blessed One tells us to give it up! The Holy One tells us to let it go!’

mn66:6.15 Once it so happened that a certain person got some soup during the day. He said,

mn66:6.16 ‘Come, let’s set this aside; we’ll enjoy it together this evening.’

mn66:6.17 Nearly all meals are prepared at night, only a few in the day.

mn66:6.18 But when we considered our love and respect for the Buddha, and our sense of conscience and prudence, we gave up that meal at the wrong time of night.

mn66:6.19 In the past, mendicants went wandering for alms in the dark of the night. They walked into a swamp, or fell into a sewer, or collided with a thorn bush, or collided with a sleeping cow, or encountered youths escaping a crime or on their way to commit one, or were invited by a lady to commit a lewd act.

mn66:6.20 Once it so happened that I was wandering for alms in the dark of the night.

mn66:6.21 A woman washing a pot saw me by a flash of lightning.

mn66:6.22 Startled, she cried out,

mn66:6.23 ‘Woe is me! It’s a damn goblin!’

mn66:6.24 When she said this, I said to her,

mn66:6.25 ‘Sister, I am no goblin.

mn66:6.26 I’m a mendicant waiting for alms.’

mn66:6.27 ‘Die, mendicant’s father! Die, mendicant’s mother!

mn66:6.28 Better to have your belly sliced open with a sharp meat cleaver than to wander for alms in the dark of night for the sake of your belly!’

mn66:6.29 Recollecting that, I thought,

mn66:6.30 ‘The Buddha has rid us of so many things that bring suffering and gifted us so many things that bring happiness!

mn66:6.31 He has rid us of so many unskillful things and gifted us so many skillful things!’”