2021.04.03 Saturday

   302. It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses; painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore let no man be an itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinerant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendicant

DHAMMAPADA, Chapter 21. Miscellaneous

https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1023.htm

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