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How is the Faith
leading to Going Forth?
Having heard the Buddha speak, a householder or a householder's
son or one born in some other family, hears that Buddha-Dhamma.
On hearing this sublime Dhamma, he acquires faith in the Tathagata.
Possessing that faith, he considers thus: Household life is crowded,
cramped and dusty! The Life gone forth is out in the wide open...
It is not easy, while living in a home, to live the Noble life utterly
perfect and pure, as a polished shell. Suppose I shave off my hair
and beard, put on the yellow robe, and go forth from the home life
into homelessness. On a later occasion, leaving behind any small or
large fortune, leaving behind a small or a large circle of relatives,
he shaves off his hair and beard, puts on the ochre robe, and goes
forth from the home life into free homelessness...
So is the faith of those, who
after countless lives finally have
accumulated and now possesses the right and ripe conditions
for
attaining the advantageous state of a Bhikkhu under a Buddha...
This is a quick step towards
the Bliss of the deathless Nibbāna!
For Fabulously
Fine Faith (Saddhā) please see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Buddha_on_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Going_Forth_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unwavering_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Highest_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leaping_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruitful_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Mutual_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fine_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rich_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
Source:
MN 27: Culahatthipadopama Sutta. The Short Elephant Footprint Simile
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.027.than.html
Going Forth Faith!
 
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