death is better than perpetual anguish.

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「おお、そうか。それならもっと素敵な笛があるよ」。 https://t.co/OXfXVoeK8k

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Know Your NeighbourPenniless: why a Victoria man has gone two decades without moneyDavid Johnston won’t touch money, except to destroy itBy Tori MarlanJuly 14, 2021

Under no circumstances would he buy groceries for himself, he says. And though he will accept gifts, he doesn’t beg. Good karma has enabled him to survive, he says. But survival isn’t what’s most important to him. What’s most important is living in a way that’s right and true. And if living right and true doesn’t end up sustaining his life, well then so be it. He’s not built for this world

 He says he emerged with a new understanding: that free will wasn’t real; that although the world was in a state of suffering and everything was wrong, no one was to blame; that evil wasn’t real;  that the whole of society was built on lies. He felt intense love. He knew that everything had changed.

I'm saying that death is better than perpetual anguish. And so once you get to that point, it's not about inviting death, it’s just about ‘rathering not’—like, I'm not going to be bad, and if that means I have to die, then I'll die.”

he felt the urge to throw the flute into the water. So he did. He thinks he was making a point about attachment and impermanence in the universe. “And the universe loves that,” he says. “It's like, ‘Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? Well, here's a nicer flute.’”

If one needs little and has good karma and is resourceful (he has posted survival tips, such as how to make cardboard insoles, on his YouTube channel), getting by without using money is doable, according to Johnston, and it doesn’t require disengaging from the world.

運がよければ、金無しでも生きれるが運が悪ければ、生に執着することなく、「はいそれまでよ」と死ぬんだろうな。

  While he says their mother knew before they became involved that he didn’t use money—and was warned that he wouldn’t start using it, even if she got pregnant—it became a problem. “It drove her mad,”

そりゃ連れ合いは怒っただろうな・・・金使わないなんて・・・付き合ってられんわ、と。