You take what you need, images, offerings,
Books, cooking gear, whatever, and stay in solitude.
Right now you have it all together but later difficulties and disputes arise.
Don't need anything – that's my sincere advice.
Pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and obscurity.
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and
unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the
non-intellectuals have never stirred.
cont....
— - Thirty Pieces of Sincere Advice was written by Tsultrim Lodru ,
-translated by Ken McLeod