Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 2 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

“Because this kind of lifestyle, the way of life, would help support and spread out the true teaching of the Buddha and nourish the moral way of life, helping people to realize all what good is, and then you earn more and more merit all the time by doing that and then finally you will become Buddha.” “So to let someone become a nun or monk, or yourself become a renunciate, the merit is as great as the sky above, as deep and wide as the ocean underneath. The renunciate person uses Buddha’s teaching, sutra, as water to cleanse all his piling-up karma, residues of karma, from life after life. These persons, the renunciates, use precepts, moral precepts, and he will always walk on the straightway of the real Buddha Dharma, until Nirana.”