To weather the crisis, Sung began studying an early Buddhist text called Samyuktagama that focuses on how monks endured the deprivations of the simple life.
為了度過這個危機，他開始研讀原始佛教《雜阿含經》，著重佛陀在世時，那些比丘是如何度過「一切具遭剝奪」的卑微人生。