sn22.80:6.1 “This is the last of lifestyles, mendicants, namely relying on alms.
sn22.80:6.2 The world curses you: ‘You beggar, walking bowl in hand!’
sn22.80:6.3 Yet earnest gentlemen take it up for a good reason.
sn22.80:6.4 Not to escape a summons by a king or a summons for a bandit, or because you were in debt or in fear, or in order to make a living.
sn22.80:6.5 But because they’re swamped by rebirth, old age, and death; by sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They’re swamped by suffering, mired in suffering.
sn22.80:6.6 And they think, ‘Hopefully I can make an end to this entire mass of suffering.’