Renunciant Frugality – so easy, so difficult
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The only sin is mindlessness.
The only rule is to be aware.
Notice what you are noticing and the effect it is having on you.
Mindful awareness leads inevitably to renunciant frugality.

 The highest language art is in expressing the inexpressible. Thus are road signs erected for the spiritual travellers wishing to change their mind. Homage then to those who have gone before and left these signs.

Renunciant frugality is at once the easiest and most difficult lifestyle. Easy because you already have everything you need – the toolbox lies within. Difficult because you do not know you have everything to hand; you know yourself to be both the prisoner and the keeper without realising that the prison is only in your mind.

Renunciant Frugality is

easy because ...

difficult because it appears that ...

regarding perception

the sun shines behind the curtain of ignorance

there are no ‘curtains’ and even if there were they are pulled tight shut

once beyond the gate, the gate is known to be illusory

the road leading to the gate is much too long, winding and arduous

all blockages (phenomena) are creations of imagination and can safely be ignored

the blockages are out there and real

regarding Will

the pleasures of the senses and the flesh are fleeting and easily foregone for the bliss of fearless equanimity

the pleasures of the senses and the flesh are the only things that make life worth living

the mind has a mind of its own which chooses equanimity

the mind has a mind of its own which craves distraction

if you are still you will know

you cannot sit still for more than a few minutes at a time

The only sin is mindlessness.

The only rule is to be aware ie notice what you are noticing and the effect it is having on you.

Mindful awareness leads inevitably to renunciant frugality.

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