The Philosopher who Hated Everyone | Diogenes the Cynic
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- Few Philosophers have gone down in history quite like Diogenes the Cynic. He was a rebel, a vagabond, a beggar, and a hero. And today we will explore his deeply critical philosophy to see what lessons it can teach us about our own lives.
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00:00 Diogenes the Cynic
01:02 Renunciation
05:57 The Anti-Society Man
10:54 Shamelessness
15:35 The Critical Instinct
19:53 Practice and Preaching
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i was wondering when he'll be up on the table!!! finally!!!!
“Poverty constitutes ultimate freedom”? Or “Voluntary poverty constitutes ultimate freedom”. I have read anything of his so I don’t know.
I will stay on " to believe in an idea is to willing to betray it."
this is just what communism was supposed to be like
OMG you Joseph Folley are so shameless! How dare you talk like that?
Diogenes is like that friend that's technically not wrong, but definitely think twice before you introduce him to your other friends.
I’m like that. I won’t keep friends that treat me that way. They can f themselves. I only wish I could be even more like Diogenes.
@@wintermatherne2524 Some friends may not vibe with other friends. Do what you want, friendo.
lol not cleaning yourself is a dick move. even animals clean themselves.
I'm pretty sure that if he could have Diogenes would have licked himself clean, yeah?
😂yes
One of my favorite stories of Diogenes is when he is using a bowl to drink water and then sees a little boy drinking from his hands. Upon witnessing the boy do this he shatters his bowl and cries "what a fool i have been!"
Haha! I love how many stories there are about him and they’re all fantastic!
😂😂😂
Mines the one where he sees the son of a prostitute throwing rocks into a crowd and tells him to be careful because he might hit his father
This is such a great story. Thanks for sharing
I tell this one sometimes bc it illustrates his philosophy pretty well
Love him or hate him, Diogenes lived what he preached and no one can take that away from him
So one could say that that was the one thing he could not go without
Can’t help but see enormous parallels between him and Indian cynics and ascetics of his time. Good chance that there was a global undercurrent of similar philosophical ideas parallel to the mainstream ways of life in different regions of the world/
@@ninadgadre3934 Its very likely that there were, the ancient world was probably more interconnected than we tend to realise
@@ninadgadre3934 Then again it might also be possible that these thinkers reached similar conclusions in parallel without really knowing about each others philosophies
@@miguelpereira9859agreed, both fascinating possibilities
*How to respond when someone asks what do you do for a living:*
*being an unemployed, homeless, loser* ❌️
*being a discipline of diogenes* ✅️
Breathing, eating and sleeping
Imagine being homeless loser and still caring about what people are. You lost Diogenes 101.
The barrier of those two options definitions is the barrier between Your sense of Your life.
@@zaq20077this took me a few tries to understand but now that it makes sense I agree
@@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk Could I ask Yourself what those words mean in Your mind? You do not have to answer me of course, nor respond in any way if You wish. However I am just curious.
One of the many insane Diogenes stories: to challenge him intellectually and his choice living in ultimate poverty, a rich greek invited him to his luxurious home . So he shows him around his beautiful house boasting to him. In the end Diogenes spits on the rich mans face saying "Sorry but with all this beauty around me, i couldn't find of a better place to spit ". Diogenes was really something else.
I wish I could be Diogenes except I don’t like getting my ass kicked.
I thought it went more like the house owner asked him to not spit on the floor so instead diogenes spit in his face
@venicec3310 perhaps. i am greek and I know the story as I wrote it,but who knows it could have happened slightly different as your version which however though ends to the same thing: he spitted on his face instead of his beautiful house he let him boasting about hahaha,wish I was present to such a hilarious incident.
@@venicec3310 unfortunately all stories about Diogenes are second hand. We'll never know which stories and which versions are true.
Sounds like a typical bitter douche who hates everyone. He'd be daniel larson if he was alive today.
"If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes."
"If I were not Diogenes, I would also want to be Diogenes."
Can I just say that I appreciate the fact this video doesnt have some faux emotional piano background music or something like that? He lets his charisma and ideas carry the video and it works brilliantly
He edits his breathing, thus the talk has no natural pauses.
True. But we could also do without the constant zooming in and out. Natural always beats edited by a long shot.
Oh hellyeah. You're pic is a fantastic album.
@@diavolacciosatanasso it doesnt bother me perssonally
@@mortalexo103 Thanks, I agree
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” -Diogenes
Except that he wasn't happy, and he wouldn't be happy even if he owned everything.
@@fuzkforyou how do you know?
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” - Jesus
@@Schweizer_Politik I'm way too similiar to him to take stupid guesses.
This is mindblowing.
Diogenes, the one dude that made Alexander the great almost want to be him 🔥
It is a cracking story!
"If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes."
"If I were not Diogenes, I would also want to be Diogenes."
I wonder (if the story is true) how often Alexander, his army refusing to conquer more and his power diminishing, was thinking about this encounter... He made a name, but was he free?
If you can take from a man he is not free, but once you take everything from him. He is free again.
Which is also the reason why you dont mess with someone who lost everything, especially when you still have things to lose. They are free from anything and everything except death
Feeling guilt (temporarily) can be instructive, but long lasting shame is toxic and serves no good purpose. It’s a malfunction of the limbic system stored as trauma.
Only primal therapy can outdo that
My cross to bear unfortunately.....can't even say for sure it's shame that belongs to me, but I carry it still.
He is one of my favorite philosophers, I don't universally agree with him but he was resolute and consistent.
Authenticity comes with a price that most of us are not willing pay. You can’t truly divorce yourself from what other people think as you would lose their validation.
Sometimes you just wish you didn’t care like Diaogenes
What value is it in their validation? What is it that validated them for them to then be a validation?
You're a garbage human being. You're a cast of flesh and fear and helpless hopefulness.
You suck so deeply it makes my heart hurt.
As am I, as is your mother. You cannot look upon your life or mine and compare it to the people who have come before and say either of us adds up to any one of millions.
To think, you validate others. Is the height of self contention. They cannot validate you, you cannot validate them.
All we can do is stroke the egos and build up the spirit.
The validation comes from the unity of the self within self. By war with the self.
Hope that helps. ❤
Wrap it back around. If we all suck. We all have an obligation to help each other suck less.
Like all those executive twats in the corporate world. They look down on the Diogenes’es of the world when they’re the slaves and live for cheap validation from other slaves.
But there comes a problem, what you "care" for isn't really genuine, so you are locking yourself in this endless fakeness... Another one of those who do not practice what they preach (me).
All people are same only state
of mind where you were born
high or low because person was born didn't know where they
belonged until they reached to
certain age l was kidnapped l
was a baby so all my life until
recently l didn't know any thing
about myself every person is
unique with their own inheritage
more important to live as human
beings not as animals
Not like prince Charles keeping
his land empty and claming
benefit from European union
for each acre £4000 every year
Not over producing Keep stable
price on goods
What sort of royalty is within him? Just a monster Other parts of the world people are dying with starvation
People should judge people not
with royalty only with their
behaviour
Society is a construct in our minds. This construct did however lead to the wonders we have around us. This kid teaching me philosophy better than the professors I had. TOOL fear innoculum album. REN. Keplar telescope. Space x... Of course it is crumbling around us like the Titanic and we are hanging out near the band.
Diogenes would be fun at (certain) parties.
Haha! He is definitely on my list of people from history I would love to have a drink with
A discussion with Antiphanes might have proven enlightening.
diogenes would NOT want to be at a party
He’ll criticize you and your party till you throw him out, then proceeds to ask for some bread on his way out.
@@unassailable6138 it's a dogging party
If you have no wealth, nobody can steal from you. Imagine the pain of sacrificing years of your life working in the hot sun when you could be having fun only to have it all taken from you by the government or an angry ex.
Your home can be burnt down because you looked at the wrong person funny.
Your kids can be used as threats.
The more detached you are, the less you have to worry about losing. And the more you can focus on savoring the good. Like the taste of your food, the feeling of the wind rustling your hair and face, the way your never alone even on a dark midnight walk as the birds are all around you, or just revel internally at what you have become throughout your life.
And if you are as skilled as Diogenes, then you could find work if you tried, so he is not as afraid of not being able to find food as someone without his skills. He just doesn't do it unless he has too.
"Their is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool." And we all know what finger!
My favorite of the classical philosophers. “You live like a dog sir”, proceeds to piss on man’s foot.
Diogenes was great. Basically showed society that 99% of our daily woes and troubles are almost entirely self made. And society basically agreed, but continued on anyway. A shame really.
Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothong to lose and Diogenses avoided having anything to lose.
Thank you so much for bringing us philosophy for free! I realise how good of an educator you are - my Highschool philosophy classes could never! Bravo
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Thank you! I always appreciate your encouraging comments
You are truly incredible, I love being enlightened by your story telling!
Fair play to you :)
Dude, you are so eloquent. Like the energy and style with which you talk is so good.
While he is quite intelligent he definitely gains 30 IQ points with that accent.
Oddly enough.I have lived both lifestyles and can say there is a lot of wisdom in this philosophy.I find Myself questioning if the simple life is the most rewarding quite often.
I imagine it depends on what outside responsibilities one takes on.
The way Diogenes spoke about the three types of creatures e.g. God, Human and Animals makes a lot of sense in the context of why he doesn’t bother to treat high powered personalities any different from regular folks when I think about it. He isn’t concerned about God because that is out of his reach, and animals just cease to exist and have no objective goals or future plans as they are driven by their natural instincts, meanwhile humans being the only conscious species we are so far able to find who are self conscious about their life in the whole wide universe, making us the rarest of the rare, now the difference among humans may be their intelligence or power or whatever but at the end we all are humans and are not so different from each other.
Honestly I can’t put a finger on what I am trying to convey and this whole para might make me look like a yapperela but I thought I must write it out anyway
Hello fellow internet stranger. I wanna mention that I don’t think your yapping was aimless. I resonate with your point that Diogenes seems to have seen past the external markers of status and the intrinsic abilities or traits that help people gain it, and in that way saw humans as just people like him. Maybe he could have thought, “I could have been Alexander under different circumstances instead. Just as I had limited influence over my circumstances, so did Alexander. In the end he is just a man like me.” I think that his view allows someone to have greater personal power, which allowed for the freedom he carried himself with. Cool stuff
The difference might be the stories we have accumulated up untill the point of meeting another soul and how we as Individuals inflate/deflate said stories to treat the recipient of what ever conversation that might spark between stranger.
@@aforabe1197 well said and worded
Live within you means even when gaining, rely on your own power, and question the hell out of authority; is what i take from Diogenes.
A good general philosophy.
@unsollited advice / Your extra remark at the end of the video was neat, essentially; "practice what you preach".
Well done, Padawan, well done!
This channel is definitely worth the time. Subscribed
Love your videos!
Love Diogenes. So many awesome gems.
I just want to share three anecdotes that I only ever read in the philosopher's biography.
One that I find hilarious: someone agreed to give him money if Diogenes could convince him to do so. The beggar said: "if I had the power to convince you, I'd convince you to hang yourself".
Another one is both witty and profound: Diogenes saw priests kicking a boy thief out of a temple. He exclaimed: "look how the big thieves kick out the smaller thief".
Finally one that really speaks to my heart: someone asked Diogenes why wouldn't he accept at least some wealth, as he was old and close to death. He answered: "would you ask a runner to slow down just because he sees the finish line?"
Quoting a tribute made for Diogenes and referring to him: thank you for showing us that life is all that life needs.
My favorite excerpt from his life is one of his encounters with Plato. I don’t remember exactly how I heard it told, but Diogenes, after being chastised for washing greens in the stream, is told that pandering to nobility/power would free him from this lifestyle. Diogenes retorted along the lines of “if you would wash your lettuce in the stream, you wouldn’t need to posture in their courts.”
It has helped me chase my desires and live in accordance with what I believe, just putting your head down and doing the legwork personally is much more fulfilling than actions that improve the light in which you’re seen socially (so long as the things you do are what you believe to be right)
@@thatonezone yeah I remember that, that's a good one. If I'm not mistaken, the conversation went like: "see... You wouldn't have to wash greens if only you pandered to mr Dyonisus". And Diogenes: "you wouldn't have to pander to Mr Dyonisus, if only you washed greens".
I resonated with this one, thank you! I’m gonna start reading up Diogenes works
This is a great video btw. Thank you chap.
Shame being somewhat at the heart of this exploration to me is very moving and worth a great deal of reflection and contemplation on my part.
Thank you very much for covering this topic.
Brilliant presentation, thank you.
Glad I found your content. Good stuff!
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Good job with the thumbnail( few months ago I said j really believed in this channel and it’s grown so much )
Diogenes has always been on of my favorite historical figures! I got hooked on some of your Nietzsche videos and was very excited to see this one after subscribing. Thank you for making my surgery recovery much more interesting!
Thank you for watching! And I hope you recover well!
I was looking for a video about diogenes just yesterday, u're reading my mind
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" ❤
Well done. Great video.
Now you must relate Diogenes to the 18th, 19th and 20th century philosophers. He had a profound influence on modern philosophy.
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I am becoming more like him.. I'm embracing minimalism to the max til only that which conveniences me remains.. I look around & see a very mentally ill society that expends much time & energy for the sake of delusional productivity
Cringe. You’re using a phone and watching CZcams
Food for thought there, though I can't help but classify Diogenes' stance as less "living one's life" than suffering from it. The quantity of milk in the glass is not the issue if it has soured.
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Thank you for watching! That is very kind!
Great video glad I found it early
I never studied any philosophy, and I have never heard of Diogenes until this video. I've been seeing the world so similarly as him, that this video walked me to a whole new rabbit hole I'm gonna get lost for a few weeks!
Very good words Diogenes is a great topic to discuss
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Excellent. Thank you.
in point of fact he did not hate everyone. because he was an honest man he did not hate himself. the extreme price of his lifestyle was less noxious than the loss of his own self-respect and love.
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Is it me or can we link some buddhist insights to attachements and the teachings of Diogenes?
Again great content and thanks for the quality delivery
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Diogenes was too based for the world.
Getting rid of all your luxuries and comforts reminds me a lot of the Buddhism concept of wants causing suffering (I've been swarmed by Buddhism stuff lately for various reasons). Took me a while to understand that mindset because it goes against everything I was taught growing up, but I can get down with this kind of mindset to some extent (just not to the extent of Diogenes, that's too much for me). Though Buddhism is more about eliminating suffering when you can, whereas Diogenes seems to be more about enjoying the thrill of discomfort.
14:55 "What would you do if you genuinely did not care what other people thought. Would you quit your job and live off the grid? Would you start a whole new life leaving behind only a note? Would you decide to donate all of your possessions and become a monk?"
- I mean I'd happily go off the grid if I knew how to. Basically all land is owned, so gotta pay someone for the land, and for that you need a source of income.
- Starting a new life is something I probably should've done long ago. Sometimes ya need a fresh start. I just don't want that start to be filled with debt for the rest of life.
- Donating all my possessions to become a monk is something I'd strongly consider doing. The happiest times in my life are when I am not doing something, or just meditating, and learning to enjoy the little things in life. This is a huge contrast to how I grew up where video games were the only thing that made me happy since they've always been max stimulation at all times. Then as time went on I realized I just play most video games just because I haven't completed them because of FOMO, with some video games just artificially increasing game length through pointless grinding. Still hard to resist video games, but I am definitely more picky about the games I play now because life begins to fall apart if I allow myself to play a grindy game(especially when trying to keep up with friends that have more time than I do). I feel that if I stopped playing video games entirely, that probably do more good than harm as much as it pains me to say... Buuuut just let me play The Talos Principle first before taking my games away because I've heard waaaay too many good things about that game over the years but somehow don't know anything about it other than it deals with psychology in some way =p
For the record Jesus Christ was also anti materialist. I wonder where Jesus traveled. The Bible doesn’t cover Christ’s life from age 13 to age 30. Did he travel east? Study with zoroastrian and Buddhists? Seems plausible. Thanks for listening.
nice to see Babs up on the shelf trying to ignore the bony-finger pointing Diogenes judging her.
Haha! He’s not going to rain on her parade
Finally. My mans is getting his shine time
Would’ve loved to see Diogenes have it out with Hobbes. I thought Hobbes really nailed it describing the reason people congregate being for security of themselves and their property. I guess that doesn’t really matter if you don’t care about either one lmao
Diogenes did care about himself, that's why he wanted to be free of possessions and put his mind over his body.
Seems to me Diogenes had no problems renouncing and condemning society because he didn’t want what the social contract was selling
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I have to admit at this late stage in life I do sometimes feel my property owns me, directs my activities from day to day
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Love this! ❤️ And here I thought I was the only person that used the term "equal opportunity hater". Lol
👍Hi, great! Diogenes's philosophy is more than just a corrective to his own times. Like Lao Tzu, he knows what it means to take sustenance from the Great Mother.
I never heard it put like this before! It’s a slippery slope! 🥳
Hello sir, love your content and I was curious do you have any educational background in philosophy as I myself am very interested in philosophy for about 3-4yrs although I try to study what I can on my own and with the help of content like yours i was really fascinated by your knowledge and was just wondering is reaching a level of knowledge like yours practically possible while managing my studies and genral life. Thank you
Thank you.
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Some of this reminds me of the dokkodo "The Path of Aloneness by musashi
The 21 principles of Dokkodo:
Accept everything just the way it is.
Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
Be detached from desire your whole life long.
Do not regret what you have done.
Never be jealous.
Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
In all things have no preferences.
Be indifferent to where you live.
Do not pursue the taste of good food.
Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
Do not act following customary beliefs.
Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
Do not fear death.
Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor.
Never stray from the Way.
I never get tired of hearing about Diogenes, he's a man after my own heart.
Sounds like a conclusion i came too... comforts make us stupid and yearn for protection from others. Be uncomfortable and strive harder.
I got to give it to the man he talked the talk and walk the walk.
He certainly did
At the beginning I was so skeptical on this content, and thought: what an arrogant little kiddo… by the end I concluded: this was one of the most intelligent videos on philosophy I’ve seen in the latest times.
And I really believe that when you truly believe in a truth you just live it... I guess what I'm tryin to say is: everybody is living their truth, even the jokers and trolls.
Congratulations sir, and keep doing what you do!
finally it's diogenes!!
Referred to by his contemporaries as a "Socrates gone mad". And like Socrates, his fate was also prophesied by the oracle of Delphi, namely to "adulterate the currency". Which he did culturally after he did it as a coin-maker in Sinope before fleeing to Athens.
Would love a video from you about AI and the philosophical challenges that we will face in the near future
Ah thank you! I would like to write about a couple of aspects of it
"Athens used to be the place, now its so played out. Corinth is really the more up and coming city state" -Diogenes the Hipster
One advantage of being shameless is that a shameless person is immune to blackmail since blackmail depends on what other people think of you. The motto of a shameless person might be "What you think of me is none of my business" and that is at variance with the finger pointing of so many of today's woke movements.
When the middle class made the tv program 'Shameless', do you suppose they knew austerity would imposed on those types ppl a few short years later?
Epstein didn’t….
Probably fun to have a drink with. You need people like that to shake things up.
Okkuurrr new philosophy lighting.
Haha! I shelled out on some new equipment
If I was not me I would want to be Diogenes
Diogenes was so much beyond his time. Maybe even ours.
Not saying I know better. But personally, I would go about applying his philosophy differently..
I think you can possess material without being attached to it. But it takes a lot of meditating and acceptance of everything.. not being attached is a symptom of this complete acceptance of the present with all its uncertainty and death(as well as the positive). It’s not an easy task.. it’s the path of Buddhism, advita Vedanta and non duality..
I think the genius of Diogenes was taking the shortcut that he took. He got rid of his shame by complete renunciation of cultural and societal expectation. So clever and more importantly, brave beyond comprehension. I have no doubts that he lived a life so alive. A life that was his own and no one else’s.. I love the man. It’s deliciously suicidal in the best way possible. Truly a maverick
Great video! ❤ And congratulations on the 100k
The problem is, in doing so, he became attached to his desire for freedom. A human being is always a slave to ego no matter what arbitrary form it takes shape. Taken to its logical conclusion cynicism reaches epistemological nihilism, and well, that’s game over.
"A rich man will gain more of what he already has, and a man with nothing will be deprived of what little he has." The man who said this also said, "Wherever a man's heart is, there also is his treasure."
Disobedience is man's original virtue
The last job I had I once wore a philosophy T-shirt to work and my manager asked who my favorite philosopher is.
When I said that it was Diogenes my manager laughed.
I asked why that was funny and he said, "I don't know, I just never heard anyone say their favorite philosopher was Diogenes."
The way you elaborate on those ancient Greek philosophers' viewpoints is both perceptive and very entertaining.
Cherry on the cake is that you're dashingly handsome as well! Amazing videos, keep it up!
It’s fun to watch someone describe gutter punks/punk rock without knowing it.
I’ve always thought Diogenes was just a historic punk. Like an ancient Jello Biafra or Fat Mike.
This explanation runs counter to my understanding of Cynicism and just deals with the surface behaviors. There's a big difference between what Cynicism is versus how Diogenes expressed it. Cynicism is about Virtue and expressing our original (human) nature. Each thing has a Nature inherent to it. That Nature is defined in the classical Greek sense of the term. Cynicism teaches that we corrupt our Nature when we submit to civilization, so our minds and behaviors then run counter to our Nature, leading us away from Virtue, and this is incorrect. So, the correction is to throw off the shackles of civilization, relearn our true Nature and express our lives toward Virtue. That being said, Diogenes went a few steps further and considered it his personal duty to shame the civilized heathens around him in order to shock them into realizing the errors of their ways. He was using shock value as a means of education. But that was him and many Cynics disagreed with his methods. There were Cynics that did the exact opposite, living quiet lives.
um, wasn’t Diogenes the first Cynic?
No. Antisthenes is considered to be the first since Cynicism was an offshoot of the Socratics. Antisthenes and Diogenes never met.
Loved this video. would be very much excited if you cover "Dokkodo" or "The Path of Lonliness" by Miyamoto Musashi
You should read faradays letter to richard taylor from 1844. He has a great critique of atomic doctrine.
I was thinking about your comment regarding freedom in wealth vs. freedom in poverty, and I think there is a nuanced difference. If you are wealthy you have the freedom to choose, you have to money to pay for things. This is a freedom in a sense, you are not oppressed by the lack of wealth. However, for Diogenes, freedom meant living live regardless of commitment to material things. It's kind of like the fight club quote: "the things we own end up owning us", or the parabel about the man and the goat: "There was a man who had almost nothing, thus he had almost no problems. One day the man got a goat, and from that day forward he also had goat problems". Furthermore, the freedom that comes through wealth is mostly seen through material gains, like cars, houses, vacations. So, in the eyes of Diogenes these are all more chains binding you down, so for him meaningless. All these commitments require attention and responsibility to maintain, which costs you more time in the end. So for Diogenes it's a downward spiral.
Amazing😃!!!
My favourite story about Diogenes is that he owned a bowl so he could drink water from a nearby fountain, but one day he saw a child cupping their hands to drink from it, he immediately tossed the bowl away because he didn't need it
My idol and hero. I hope to be thought even a percentage as wise as he
His philosophy is something ive experienced or realized myself this past year. The trade off between true freedom and how society programs individuals. I can see some similarities to Buddhism
I feel that caption. Let's go
Begging for food from people who have accepted their place in society to grow food IOT declare that he refused his place in society.
His liberty came at the cost of others