We read about the need for obedience to a superior. The chapter is obviously directed primarily to monks. The chapter has excellent advice, however, about the more general temptation to think that we will be happy if we just go somewhere else. How beneficial it is to live a stable life with someone to guide us, with someone under whose direction we can be obedient. How wise it is to seek to live in harmony with others and conform our lives to the common good of a community.