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RE: Siddhartha, the mendicant | "The Keyword of the Week" | [es-en]
A good question - and not so simple...
You say yourself - all cultures, all religions have their ascetics, their hermits, their ‘enlightened ones’. And they all have those who only pretend, who sacrifice their own values in order to survive in a consumer-orientated world. We in Germany tend to categorise people (if you know one, you know them all...) So we probably wouldn't even recognise a true renunciate if we saw one.
Yes, I understand your point now, and I think the saying you shared applies.