(28) Everybody should adhere to a right outlook on life. Whatever career an individual pursues, he can always be successful so long as he is guided along by a right outlook on life. Without a right outlook on life, even a Buddhist votary would be frequently assailed by afflictions and misgivings. That’s why the comment goes so popular that “having put on a kashaya  robe would mean more afflictions waiting for him who puts it on”. He who is involved in the vortex of afflictions after having put on a kashaya robe is such a one as had failed to get himself psychologically well prepared for the way of monastic life before he embarked on it. Or, we should call him a Buddhist votary without a stable and mature outlook on life. The monastic life conducted by a practitioner who is there carrying on self-cultivation is never so blithe, soothing, and sublimely inspiring as some lay people would imagine. A practitioner leading a monastic life needs, as a rule, to handle a lot of petty prosaic everyday concerns day in and day out. If he has failed to fortify himself with an adamant and right outlook, he tends, after having taken the vows, to stumble into a new spate of grievances. But if a practitioner has already gained a sound and determined outlook before his entry into a monastic life, no grievances whatsoever are likely to snag and topple him. The motivation impelling one to take a monastic life should not be a morbid one. Rather, it should be a positive and enterprising one. If a practitioner is persistently not serious in striving to duly rectify his unwholesome outlook before he takes the vows but fondly imagined instead that to take a monastic life can be the cure of his sickly mentality, he is, I should say, really promising to ruin the prospects of his own self-cultivation career.