🪷 BDG News: Japanese Buddhist Monk Undertakes 12-Year Solitary Mountain Retreat

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A Russian hermitage in the forest

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Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

“It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.”

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