Fellowship with many people is painful. Seeing this, one shouldn't approve of a company.
Offerings are hard for a worthless man to let go.
He, with his rotting hand, tossed me a morsel of food, and as the morsel was dropping, a finger fell off right there. Sitting next to a wall, I ate that morsel of food, and neither while eating it, nor having eaten, did I feel any disgust. He is a man of the four directions. There is no such pleasure for me in the music of a five-piece band as there is when my mind is at one, seeing the Dhamma aright. One shouldn't do lots of work, should avoid what doesn't lead to the goal.