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It is hard to leave the world (to become a

Categories: Chapter XXI
Books: Dhammapada

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



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