The Joy of Renunciation and Asceticism, or the World Has Things Exactly Backwards
The author reads an essay showing that celibate, vegetarian, teetotalling contemplative asceticism and renunciation is actually true joy, happiness and sufficiency, and that worldly and bodily desires and sensual pleasures are actually true pain, misery and deprivation, even though this is exactly opposite to what the world thinks.
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