At Sāvatthi.

"Bhikkhus, acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe; they obstruct the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.

Suppose, bhikkhus, a wooly goat would enter a thicket of thorns. She would get caught here and there, entangled here and there, trapped here and there, and would come to meet misfortune and disaster.

So too, bhikkhus, when a certain bhikkhu, overwhelmed by acquisitions, respect, and popularity, with his mind consumed by them, dresses in the morning, takes his bowl and robes, and enters a village or town for alms, he becomes attached here and there, caught here and there, trapped here and there, and meets with misfortune and disaster.

Thus, bhikkhus, acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe; they obstruct the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.

Therefore, bhikkhus, you should train yourselves thus: 'We will abandon the arisen acquisitions, respect and popularity, and we will not let the arisen acquisitions, respect, and popularity continue to occupy our minds.' Thus, bhikkhus, you should train yourselves."