This catastrophe, I Apostrophe, basically started around 2013. Yeah so *on the couch with a sighing creek* it all started back in those days right after college around that time. 

This website is to encourage the ascetic path, and offer tips to meditation techniques and how to live a minimalist lifestyle. What does 'minimalist' mean here, we ask. To be a disciple in this philosophy requires adopting an attitude w/r/t the Fourfold Extortion of Modernity.

The Fourfold Extortion of Modernity is, of course, reliance on the following four modern amenities:

 - electricity

 - automobile

 - internet

 - computer

Minimalism, then, is to adopt an attitude w/r/t the above Fourfold Extortion. That is, to go without any or all of the above in the fostering of Power, in both forms. That's the purpose of this site, see. We find ourselves then as Dhamma practitioners with political and economic interests. What you see when you go outside your door? The four signs, Papa Homer? Pfft, no. We should work to change that, Pepi.

Note on van life in America. On the American continent (South of Canada), please declare yourself Buddhist and exercise your right to freedom of religion in practicing the ascetic path with a van. Also note that in Article Four to the Articles of Confederation to the United States, vagabonds are excepted from the Republic. Exercise then your freedom to travel and abide in the van. So philosophically here we go. The van can transmogrify definition from a vehicle to an abode given the way that the vagabond uses it. Exercise this malleability of the term and redefine it as an abode, which is liberally more what it should be anyway. Liberate objects, and UP with miniskirts ;)

     A van should only cost somewhere between 3k and 5.5k. A good model is a Ford Windstar or something like it. When buying a van, consider one month usage to be worth $100. In this light then, a van which costs 2.4k will last 24 months. Given the economy it is probably less likely to find a van that cheap, but it's worth it for the keesh you pay if you follow this model. A van may only cost 1.3k, so as long as you aim to achieve only 13 months, that's just fine. The van does not need to be decked out; it merely needs some blinders on the inside for the windows. No alcohol in the van. I don't care if you drink but go to bars. Weed in the van is fine, just don't be stupid. No sexy times in the van either -- get a room. This is the art, the craft, the practice.

     Obviously going to relieve yourself is easier if you're a male. Men can urinate in bottles, so unless you wanna squat on a cookie sheet you're SOL, ladies. I'm sure ya'll can work it out though, where we're lucky as Hell here at Dead-as. But anyway, your diet has to be timed and be also reasonable for expenses. To avoid having to take a deuce at 2 am, refrain from such foods and the ill-timing of any foods. Try to find a place not far from a town center or some other place for your basic needs. Try also to find a place where you can park your van for longer periods without even starting it or moving it. Ideally find a place where you can avoid driving for at least a week. You can find parking garages and I recommend you stay in nice areas; we're not hobos. So, the van should be inconspicuous and tidy, and nobody should see you entering and exiting it in a conspicuous manner. Always show your ID and be docile and cooperative if anyone tells you to leave. Try to stand your ground and exercise these rights, but try not to make conspicuous trouble, lol. Fkn Heathcliff. Right action ;)

     According to what is written above, this lifestyle when practiced is super cheap / highly affordable. A person can work for three months (June, July, August) and then be ready to liesure / practice for nine months. Even a flight to Hawaii is possible with purchasing of a van doable once you land. Remember the aphorism: one month for one hundred. So when you get to Hawaii, just be prepared to drop a few grand on a van. Remember that you'll either sell it or abandon it when leaving Hawaii. There's to be lack of accruition of material goods, so this is highly obtainable. 

Staying out of a van you will practice to adopt an attitude to nearly every one of the fourfold extortions, especially if we pend the definition of 'van' to be 'abode', then you've realized adoption of resistance to all four of the extortions, especially if your van isn't used for electricity at all, but merely dwelling. Are you male? Do you have conviction? Are you religious with no children? Then this philosophy is highly obtainable! 

Welcome to Death Row ;)

After the above encouraging words, let's talk about a reading exercise to foster remembrance of previous lives and eliminate presumption. What is this exercise, we ask. It is to read backwards. Lol, What on Earth for? Try this. Start with a simple novel, like The Maze Runner. This is an excellent introductory philosophical read, btw. So, start at the beginning of the page. Then after you read just a few sentences, skip ahead and take a sentence out of context. Then skip ahead another page or so and take other sentences from context. Now, read backwards and populate your inner landscape with how your mind 'pieces things together'. You'll notice several effects. First is probably that you don't get tired. Second, you notice that when you take statements out of context -- here identified as presumption -- that there are surprises all over! Nothing is what you expected. But furthermore, as you piece the story together, you start to literally read between the lines and see things not initially given. Even, you can remember previous lives this way. This proves human beings are from the future.

I have a rich, intuitive grasp on the situation, Mr Brady. What we need to do is deny you electricity for a while and you'll lose idono, say, ten pounds right out the gate. Seriously man now I'll Chris Jericho this ish and backflip off the second rope. I tell ya i really will. Now when you shut your shit off like a true Patriot, I still like to party, so I'll be over. We'll put the beer on ice and get an oil lantern lol. Knowing you you'll burn your shit down. I didn't. Another reason for me to trampoline all over your bitch ass lol. Your mom's a pervert haha. 'Lol your mom text me.' Fck ur an astronaut.

Now let me explain the reading. OK so Accuser starts off going back and forth between genius and insanity. This back and forth continues oscillating until at the end there's a final synthesis culminating in the more *coherent* work to follow Accuser. By the end of all these works, there is a complete philosophy. It needs to be extracted and perhaps enhanced, but it's clearly there.

Personal account here. I have proved to myself multiple startling metaphysical theses, and here is one. That I have proved the transcendental nature of consciousness from technology, or, that I have proved technology able to be adopted by consciousness. Here's how I proved it. I sent a friend a message and it was one digit incorrect. But then my friend actually got the message, see. That's, even though it was sent to the wrong number, I got a reply. QED

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The mental problem that shaped my life.

I graduated college in 2015. I ‘should have’ went to grad school and became a professor. That’s what I was planning on doing and preparing to do for a long time. When you sit around and read books, it takes time before you’re prepared for a confident mental exchange with the material. It’s one thing to know how to read, but it’s another thing to be able to read this shit. It takes time, too. You’re gonna be in your thirties before you have such an affinity for the material to be able to be sportively engaged with the content. So what I had spent years preparing for seemed to be historical to my goals. I was working in warehousing after I graduated.  

Look, are you gonna be a person who produces the material or are you gonna just read it, and tell other people what it’s about. There’s nothing wrong with this last. And maybe if that’s all that I was then I wouldn’t have been so upset working these piss-up-a-rope jobs that don’t pay that well. They also drug test you on these jobs so they’re rooted initially for distrust and disrespect. It’s disrespectful to the American public. What kinds of people do you think are out there, just desperate to get in at your melee of a ‘ground floor’? Trust me, Bill Henniger, nobody who’s doing any hard drugs is going to be applying for a job at Rogue Fitness anytime soon. (Nobody should apply for a job, actually.) So what’s that say about drug testing people--the American republic is constituted of meth-mouths. Anyway, this performance don’t pay the bills and it hardly pays for pills, so you can imagine the frustration I was feeling on a day-to-day when I was putting up with poverty as well as lack of anybody really to talk to except fitness enthusiasts. Those people are all over the damned place in this ‘fat land’ or whatever it’s called. Big Fat Devil I think.  

Now why would I not go to grad school and become a professor then if I didn’t like this other thing. My problem was actually a financial one, but it burgeoned into something quite a bit more. So here's how the 'mental problem' works that shaped who I am now. I would think to myself in a single existence: maybe I'll go back to school. Then in the next existence I would question whether or not I wanted to still do that. Because since graduation things have changed. I was beginning to practice meditation, yoga, and ascetic philosophy when I would realize I wasn't fulfilled by it. So when I began to question my life choices, I had to face the prospect of student loan repayment. That's not a problem, per se. The problem arises here: I could not determine whether or not I wanted to commit myself to something (paying my student loans) in order to go to college again (more debt with a PhD-track). This indecisiveness eventuated into nothing. Consequently, I felt annoyed and wanted more than what the personal philosophy track was giving me. But then I wouldn't be able to determine what to do next. I thus then defaulted into the Van-life, traveler / ascetic yogi path. This is how I got to be where I am now. Then at the age of thirty-three...it really paid off ;)

At the age of thirty-three after practicing asceticism, celibacy. and seclusion for 7 years I reached the destruction of the three lower fetters and entered upon a track to carry me permanently and irrevocably to Nibbana.exclamationpoint.