I am reading Mingyur's book. I must admit I find it a bit odd he only retells the first 10 weeks of his wandering retreat that supposedly lasted 4 and half year. I am a bit suspicious he ended his nomadism and begging after 10 weeks, after he had to be hospitalized from food poisoning and almost died. Unless he went to meditate in caves afterwards, near the monasteries, instead of Varanasi train station? I would not blame him if that was the case: I have lived as a hobbo, without meditation training, for a mere month and it was hard enough. And I was not in India where insalubrity and poverty is extreme.