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.
Reflect on this verse with Ananda
What does this verse stir in you? Ask anything — Ananda draws from many traditions and honours your own path.