early clips

Not, “What is the purpose in Life?” but rather, “What causes the urge to think that there should be a purpose in life?”.

And the answer to that question should be an intuition regarding deep consciousness/ neurology rather than a rationalisation about cultural conditioning.

From the first blog post in Nov 2002

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You may like to smile to your food before you put it in your mouth.

When you chew it, you are aware that you are chewing it, and don’t put anything else into your mouth, like your projects, your worries, your fear, just put the carrot in, and when you chew, chew only the carrot, not your projects or your ideas.

Thich Nhat Hahn

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Renunciant frugality - Not really such an odd phrase but when you Google it this is the only site it comes up with - and it is one of mine?

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