Samyutta Nikaya: Labhasakkarasamyutta (II-17)

 

3: Gain, honor, and praise: the metaphor here reminds me of a movie in which Maggie Smith, playing the part of a tourist who is very insecure but trying to be elegant, leaves a restroom walking very haughtily and elegantly, while trailing a line of toilet paper behind her.

 

10: Being obsessed with things—or being obseesed not with things (i.e., rigid and highly conscious asceticism) are both non-conducive, since both are obsessions.

 

31 – 36: These point out how Devadatta was turned by gain, honor, and praise and thus brought about schism in the Sangha.

 

Well worth thinking of this state as a kind of sickness; never envy the person who has been afflicted with it.