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Did Asceticism Come From the Lack of Access?
The possibility of coming to insights about life and about yourself by seeing repeated threads across multiple instances of explicit material is really intriguing. I think actually, did asceticism come from the lack of access? I think you were pointing to that earlier. People didn't have this access and it wasn't easily found. So why not make the best of what your hand did? And I think a lot of the old spiritual traditions were based on that.