[248] Bhikkhus, there are these two strivings (padhāna) that are hard to accomplish in the world. What two? The striving of laypeople dwelling at home for the purpose of producing robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick; and the striving of those gone forth from home into homelessness for the purpose of the relinquishment of all acquisitions (upadhi). These, bhikkhus, are the two strivings that are hard to accomplish in the world. Of these two strivings, bhikkhus, this is the foremost: the striving for the relinquishment of all acquisitions. Therefore, bhikkhus, you should train thus: 'We will exert ourselves in the striving for the relinquishment of all acquisitions.' Thus indeed, bhikkhus, should you train.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.