Ten Commandments and Buddhist Precepts as Christian God or Buddhist Master

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The Buddha said, “Take the Pratimokùa as your master.

The Pratimokùa is the Vinaya — the precepts and rules. “Take the precepts as Master.

The Buddha said that all people who have gone forth from home should take the Pratimokùa as Master. Therefore if you want to leave the home life you certainly must receive the precepts. If you do not receive the precepts, then you have no Master.

When one leaves home he should receive the Pràmaõera precepts, the Bodhisattva precepts, and the bhikùu precepts.

One who has taken only the pràmaõera precepts and the Bodhisattva precepts, but has not taken the bhikùu precepts, has only partially left home. To leave home fully, one takes the complete precepts as Master

 

[fivestars]

"Subhūti, if each of the sands in the Ganges river contained its own Ganges river, would not the number of sands contained in all those Ganges rivers be great?"

Subhūti said, "Extremely great, World Honored One. If the number of even the Ganges rivers were countless, how much more so its grains of sand?"

"Subhūti, now I am going to tell you a truth.

If a good son or good daughter filled three thousand galaxies with the seven jewels equal to the number of grains of sand in all those Ganges rivers and gave them away charitably, would his or her merit not be great?"

"Extremely great, World Honored One."

The Buddha said to Subhūti: "If a good son or good daughter is able to memorize four lines of verse from this Diamond sūtra and teach them to others, his or her merit will be far greater."