时间：10/18/2025 10/19/2025
地点：星湖禅修中心
主讲：龙示林
佛法修行
劫贼楼陀缘
过去，佛陀在舍卫国给孤独园宣说佛法时，城中住着一位名叫楼陀的抢匪。楼陀经常在腰际间配带着一把利剑，并且手持弓箭，不时地在街上抢夺别人的财物，以求自活。一天，他觉得饥渴难忍，远远地看见一位比丘手捧着钵，前往一棵大树下歇息。
楼陀心想：「这位比丘的钵中必有食物，我现在就去抢来饱餐一顿；若他已经吃完，我就将他剖腹，把食物从肚子里取出来食用。」
楼陀起了这个念头后，就往比丘的方向走过去，并在相近不远的地方停了下来。当时，比丘知道楼陀的来意，心想：「我今天若不叫住他，他一定会来杀我，种下杀害僧宝的罪过，将来必堕恶道，不如我先招呼他过来用斋。」于是，比丘远远地招唤楼陀：「你快过来，我这边有食物可以让你享用。」
楼陀听到比丘的呼唤，心想：「这位比丘竟然知道我很饥饿，还让我食用他的午餐。」于是楼陀来到比丘身边，吃完钵中的斋饭后，精神焕发，气力充足，心中非常欢喜。这时比丘即为他宣说种种佛法大意，楼陀当下心开意解，即证须陀洹果。
后来楼陀出家修行，精进用功，灭除烦恼，出离生死，最后证得阿罗汉果，具足六种神通。天人、国中臣民见到这位圣者，无不敬仰赞叹。
Date: 10/18/2025 10/19/2025
Location: Star Lake Meditation Center
Teacher: Shilin Long
Dharma Talk
The Story of the Bandit Luótuó
In the past, when the Buddha was teaching the Dharma at Jetavana Monastery in Śrāvastī, there lived in the city a robber named Luótuó. He often carried a sharp sword at his waist and a bow and arrows in hand, seizing people’s belongings in the streets to survive.
One day, feeling unbearably hungry and thirsty, he saw from afar a monk holding his alms bowl, resting under a large tree. Luótuó thought: “There must be food in that monk’s bowl. I will rob him and eat my fill. If he has already eaten, I’ll cut open his belly and take the food from inside to eat.”
With this cruel thought, Luótuó approached the monk and stopped not far away. At that time, the monk, knowing Luótuó’s intention, thought: “If I do not call out to him today, he will surely kill me, thus committing the grave sin of harming the Sangha, and he will fall into the evil realms.
It is better that I invite him to share this meal.” So the monk called out from afar: “Come here quickly, I have food for you to enjoy.”
Hearing this, Luótuó thought: “This monk actually knows I am hungry, and yet he offers me his meal.” So he came near, and after eating all the food from the monk’s bowl, he felt refreshed, strong, and greatly joyful. At that moment, the monk preached the essentials of the Dharma to him. Luótuó’s mind opened, and he attained the fruit of sotāpanna (stream-enterer).
Later, Luótuó renounced worldly life and became a monk. He practiced diligently, eradicated afflictions, transcended birth and death, and finally attained the fruit of an arhat, complete with the six kinds of supernatural powers. Both devas and the people of the country who saw this venerable saint revered and praised him without exception.
