Reasons to become a monk / Anti-disrobing Sutta Collection

[nyanasuci]

A 8:29 - The only good opportunity to live the holy life
A 5:6 - As long as there is faith, a sense of shame...
A 5:5 - Five things can be truthfully said about someone who disrobed
M 26 - Searching for...a little bit more birth aging an death?
A 1:16 - The greatest loss and the highest gain
A 4:122, M 67 - Four Dangers for a Samana
S 4:21 - “We abandoned what takes time in order to pursue what is directly visible...”
S 9:9 - Many are those who envy you...
M 71 - There has never been a householder...
A 2:65ff. - Two kinds of happiness
M 13, M 54, M75, A 8:56 - Beware of the mass of dukkha
A 4:4, Iti. 109 - Go with the flow?
S 56:35 - 300 Spears
S 15:10 - Already exited about what you will do after disrobing? Here Buddha says what you will really be busy with afterwards
S 56:42/43/46 - The Precipice/The Darkness/The great Conflagation
S 15:20, D 17, A 7:70 - Aniccā vata Saṅkhārā...
S 35:26 - Without fully understanding and knowing the All...
S 22:30 - The arising and cessation of dukkha
S 35:20 - Seeking delight in dukkha
A 3:39 - Intoxications
S 15:3/13 - The Ocean of blood and tears
M 82 - Arahat Raṭṭhapāla explains to a King why he choose the holy life
Thig. 448-521 - Sumedhā explains to her parents why she wants to live the holy life
A 5:75/76 - Five types of warriors can be found in the world
A 7:47/48 - Feminine and masculine charms and how people get excited by them
Thig. 366-399 - Her eyes are so beautiful...are they?
A 4:49/A 5:144 - Vipallassā
A 8:17/18 - The tactics of sense-desire/”Love”
M 45 - The soft and tender Māluva-Creeper
A 2:6, S 12:53 - When someone dwells only on the gratification of things that fetter...
Ud. 5:9 - The insects and the oil lamps
S 22:99/100 - The chained dog
A 4:37 - Not incapable of falling back yet? Develop these four things
A 5:205/A 10:14 - Cetokhila
A 10:123-127 - Not outside this Dhamma and Vinaya
S 56:39 - The cotton tuft and the iron pillar
S 45:139, A 10:15, A 2:5 - Diligence
A 5:200, A6:13, Iti 72 - The Escape-Routes
S 35:238 - The four Vipers
S 20:10, M 105, M 122, Theg. 193/194 - Death in the noble ones discipline
S 56:38 - The manifestation of great light
A 4:128 - When a Tathāgata arises in the world four wonderful things happen...
D 2 - Is there any fruit of the life as Samana visible here and now?
M 77 - Why the Buddha is honored by his disciples
A 6:30 - The six unsurpassable things
A 8:19. – The simile of the ocean
A 2:9 – Yes, it is possible!
S 22:101 – The Adze handle/The ship
A 5:32 – Aggato ve Pasannānaṁ...
A 4:28 – The four noble lineages
A 8:39 – Giving immeasurable beings freedom from fear, hostility and oppression
A 5:128 – The five sufferings and joy of the Samana-Life
M 137 – Joy, grief and equanimity of the household and Samana-Life
A 10:59 – The spirit of monkhood
M 39/40 – Are you a Samana?
A 8:2 – Eight conditions for wisdom
A 8:80/79, A 6:14, Iti. 79 – Opportunities to be diligent and their enemies
Ud. 2:10 – Bhaddiyo, the former King
S 13:1/S 55:1 – The Breakthrough/Better than sovereignty over the earth
A 9:26 – The unshaken mind
S 22:76 – Happy indeed are the Arahants!
M 27 – The Elephant footprint
M 12 – The Lions Roar
S 22:78 – The Lion
S 12:22 – The ten Powers
M 34 – The wise cowherd
Ud. 8: 1-4 - Nibbāna
M 59 – Nibbānaṁ paramaṁ sukhaṁ...
S 4:19 – There is no place for you there, evil one...
A 4:23 – Why he is called “The Tathāgata”

[appicchato]

Nicely done friend...

[tiltbillings]

Dhp 142.

[JimKai]

Thank you for this collection, good work!

[rowyourboat]

Interesting collection- are there any in your collection which talks against disrobing?

with metta

[Lombardi4]

There is one who, turning away from desire (for household life) takes to the life of the forest (i.e., of a monk). But after being freed from the household, he runs back to it. Behold that man! Though freed, he runs back to that very bondage!

Dhp. 344

[Ytrog]

What exactly are the abbreviations? Other than dhp. I don't recognize any

[Lombardi4]

What exactly are the abbreviations? Other than dhp. I don't recognize any

D — Digha Nikaya
M — Majjhima Nikaya
S — Samyutta NIkaya
A — Anguttara Nikaya
Ud. — Udana
Thig. — Therigatha