四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.380

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二明勸出有益者。《華手經》：菩薩有四法，轉身當作善來比丘，蓮華化生，現增壽命：一自樂出家，亦勸助他人，令其出家；二求於佛法，無有懈倦，亦勸他人；三自行和忍，亦勸他人；四習行方便，深發大願。《出家功德經》云：若放男女奴婢人民出家，功德無量。譬四天下，滿中羅漢，百歲供養；不如有人，為涅槃故，一日一夜，出家受戒，功德無邊。又如起七寶塔，至三十三天，不如出家功德。《智論》云：出家人雖破戒，破戒墮罪，罪畢得解脫。如《蓮華色尼本生經》說。如佛度醉婆羅門，以無量世來，無出家心，因醉發心，後當得道，因說出家偈。《本緣經》云：一日一夜出家故，二十劫不墮三惡。《祇律》：一日一夜出家修梵行，離六百六千六十歲三塗苦。

Second, clarifying that encouraging renunciation is beneficial. The Kuśalamūlasaṃparigraha Sūtra states: A bodhisattva has four dharmas by which, upon changing bodies, he will become an ehibhikṣu, be born miraculously from a lotus, and have his lifespan increased in the present: first, taking delight oneself in leaving household life and also encouraging and assisting others to make them leave household life; second, seeking the Buddhadharma without weariness and also encouraging others; third, practicing harmony and forbearance oneself and also encouraging others; fourth, practicing skillful means and deeply giving rise to great vows. The Sūtra on the Merit of Leaving Household Life states: If one permits sons, daughters, male and female slaves, and subjects to leave household life, the merit is immeasurable. Suppose throughout the four continents, filled entirely with arhats, one made offerings to them for a hundred years; it would not compare to a person who, for the sake of nirvāṇa, leaves household life and receives the precepts for one day and one night, whose merit is boundless. Furthermore, it is like erecting a seven-jeweled stūpa reaching up to the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven: it does not equal the merit of leaving household life. The Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa states: Although a renunciant may break the precepts, and breaking the precepts leads to falling into offenses, when the offenses are exhausted he attains liberation, as recounted in the Utpalavarṇā Bhikṣuṇī Jātaka. It is like the Buddha delivering the drunken brahmin: through immeasurable ages he had never had the mind to leave household life, but because of drunkenness he gave rise to the mind, and later he would attain the Way; on that account, the Buddha spoke the gāthā on leaving household life. The Jātaka Sūtra states: Because of leaving household life for one day and one night, for twenty kalpas one does not fall into the three evil destinies. The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya states: Leaving household life and cultivating the brahma-faring for one day and one night frees one from the suffering of the three destinies for six hundred six thousand and sixty years.