Tao Te Ching

“Marpa is an example of someone who was on his way to becoming a successful self-made man... It was Marpa's intention to study and collect texts unknown in Tibet, bring them home, and translate them, thus establishing himself as a great scholar-translator [but meeting his teacher Naropa,] he had to give up everything he had, not just his material possessions, but whatever he was holding back in his mind had to go. It was a continual process of opening and surrender.”

— Chögyam Trungpa 1939 – 1987 CE
from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism