Four years ago, I gave 98% of my possessions and have racked up 16k miles on my recumbent tricycle in the last 3 and a half.

I've lived more in the last 4 years than I have in the previous 30.

You sir are my hero

Just put one foot in front of the other. ;)

He's going The Distance, lol, awesome...that's some funky feat!

LOL... thanks!

If you look at the beginning, I blew through that red light because everyone was waiting for me to go... some of them even had their kids recording me with their phones.

Living more in the past 4 years than the last 30... Are you 34?

A little older... used a nice round number.

How do you make money?

Discount IT; manual labor; accept various people's unsolicited food and financial donations... I can thrive on less than $400/mo.

When I was plugged in, I was suicidal even though I was generating a nice income as a software developer (I was always in debt as well).

Interesting. What about your family? Are they happy?

I have no immediate family that I'm responsible for, so the rest of them, as well as my friends are happy that I'm finally happy.

I gave the rat-race a good decade of my life... I just couldn't sell anymore of myself to fund an illusion.

You are an inspiration.

Good luck in your journey.

Thank you!

Best wishes to you in your journey as well.

Enjoy yourself!

So what do you actually do? Just live and enjoy life? Sounds awesome.

Exactly.

Basically I enjoy a continued reduction of my material needs via a constant redefinition of my comfort zone.

I also help anyone who may need it... never with cash... with physical assistance or instruction.

Who do you have sex with?

I'm an old-fashion guy (raised by my grandparents) in the sense that for sex to have any true merit, it needs to happen with someone who I love... otherwise, it's just a really awesome cheep thrill.

I'll be straight up with you... My last sexual encounter was in Feb. of '13.

I don't know if you read that part of me being a speedfreak sex-fiend for a year, but yeah... I guess I got it out of my system.

Once in a while I may take care of business, but it's more of a physical release than a sexual compulsion.

I hope that is a satisfactory response to any and all questions on the subject.

Who knows, maybe I'll have a family some day... maybe I'll be dead before I click save?

Can you tell me how you survive on 400 a month? :)

• Have no rent (live outside or in vehicle)

• Drink only water

• Stop eating out and start cooking healthy

• Don't spend money on entertainment (there are tonnes of cool things to do that doesn't require $$)

• Cycle or walk instead of driving around town (hey free exercise).

• The only monthly payment that I have is a phone bill.

What is there to explain?

I am unconditionally happy, and there is nothing material that I want. I have no agenda, and wish everyone the best.

I have no enemies, animosity, or ill-will because I have no regrets.... none, zero... why? Because everything that's ever happened has resulted in my present experience.

If I'm insane, then I hope that there is no cure, and if there is, please kill me before they try to administer it to me.

When I want to live it up, I have a camper van that I've had for a few years now.

Someone in a private sub posted: What Steps Have You Taken to Significantly Improve Your Life?

What I posted is MY path... everyone's is different, but this is what transpired in my life for me to be the person that I am now typing this.

• Began turning inward in order to find true happiness after my family's house was destroyed in a fire.

• Meditated for a couple of years until I realized that everything emanates from a single source

• Wanted to find what this source was

• Sampled all of the Eastern philosophies that appealed to me

• Began reading Watts, Dass, and McKenna

• Used high-doses of psilocybin over the course of a year and experienced numerous complete ego-dissolutions (non-dual awareness). Stopped when the psilocybin was no longer required to experience this state (.

• Spent an entire year meditating and trying to resolve my issues with Buddhism vs Advaita.

• Prepared to travel to Thailand to ordain as a Thai Forest Buddhist monk.

• Watched my mind revolt against the idea, and the watched myself spiral out of control into unbridled hedonism.

• Ended up becomming a speedfreak sex-fiend for almost a year before I was graced with a choice to either die or thrive.

• Chose to thrive!

• Quit my programming/IT job

• Gave away 98% of my worldly possessions

• Bought a recumbent tricycle and hit the road with a hammock

• 6 months later, bought a camper van and lived out of it for 3 years while I racked up over 16k miles on the tricycle.

• Attempt to offer aid to other when the opportunity presents itself

• In the process realized that the perception of free will is completely illusory (which resolved the remainder of uncertainty)

• Consolidated my organism's material burden and placed it in a backpack.

• Currently waiting to hear back from a vagabond convoy who are travelling the US doing random acts of kindness.

• Found solace in the fact today and the last 1173 days of my life have each been the best day of my life.

• Found even more solace in the knowledge that I have ZERO regrets.

The whole time, I was seeking external fulfilment.

The inner happiness that we are born with and which begins to become masked by the ego around the age of 2.5 years is never lost... it is there waiting to be discovered under all of the jade that's built up over the many years of being indoctrinated by culture.

This is one of the only books that I still possess.

I have another post you might be interest in if psychedelics don't put you off.

have you looked into meditative practices? Buddhism? Inner-peace via non-attachment? there is a single Truth, if one would like to call it such. there is chasing external things for happiness, such as money, ego, status, power, etc. and then there is that which is eternal, the emptiness, falling in line with the eternal process. the process it what it's all about. all conditional things end, your body will end, but the process goes on. become part of the eternal dance.

I achieve it through a personal relationship with Christ. Reading the bible for what it is and praying and improving myself. I'm happy and I don't have much. I believe that's the best way and most true, but sure, you can find happiness through other means. You don't need to be religious to have peace with just yourself.

A true master!

dude.

cool.

What is the name of the group traveling around the U.S. performing acts of kindness? I want to join them.

• Meditated for a couple of years until I realized that everything emanates from a single source

What actually happens during meditation that makes you realize that?

When one's mind becomes still enough, like a completely placid body of water, there are no waves or turbulence in the form of desires, aversions, delude thought, but consciousness remains... pure happiness remains... I wanted to know where this ever-present experience emanated from and what it was.

Become homeless, apparently.

Yup.

My ideal would be a log cabin somewhere by a stream and with enough land to grow my own stuff. Not likely to be able to happen though.

For now my aim is a motorcycle and a tent. That'd do me.

Why go alone?

My excited little brain is thinking that what the world needs is a conspiracy based Motorcycle Club.

Imagine that!

Could have chapters all over the place.

I love it!

Bunch of folks riding motorcycles rolling into various areas/events to pass along the truth.

Respectful…organized…intimidating...

Exactly!

And whilst smartphones aren't ideal, things like periscoping events would be possible.

-starts half daydreaming half planning...-

What would our logo be? A tv with a line through it? lol

Aha, well I know my own emblem (relates to my username) but having a decent design would be interesting to think about.

Would need to have the balance between promoting the message and also being somewhat discrete.

I'm spitballing ideas here, but first thought was something like a torch? Searching for answers, bringing hidden things to light? That kind of idea? Flames would also fit the motorcycle theme. Maybe have some kind of border around the edge of the logo of almost charm bracelet style charms of things like skulls, twin towers, ufos, guns, triangles, seeing eye stuff etc to represent common conspiracy topics which are being revealed or explored?

I don't know, just my first thoughts.

Any ideas?

I'm sure you could find many people.

Where not?

They are already there..

you'd be surprised how many people wish they could do that

You'll find all those people on the trail you end up on when you try and exit the mainstream. It's not a novel idea and there are way more people actually doing this than you can know until you go.

I'd go

You and /u/LupinePeregrinans

You'd be welcome to join /u/-INFOWARS-

Thanks for the invitation! A few more years and I just might...

I'm not there yet. That said, have started costing things up.

Maybe when I get to that point I'll post points I'll be at and if people wanted to come along they could (all half baked ideas atm!)

If so, I'll drop you a line

Sounds surreal but I'll definitely be up for hanging out with you (even if it's just for a week). Just saved this post.

Same - well, watch this space and give it a couple of years (realistically)!

:D

Loneliness is far easier to cope with when you're doing something like that than it is when you're hidden in a crowd of people who think there isn't an issue at all.

I doubt it'd be a long term thing, but for a few months or so it'd be great.

You'd be amazed at the people you meet on a motorcycle loaded with a few dry bags, old guys will buy you lunch just to tell you stories of when they did a trip in the 1950's. I had a guy in a new BMW fill my tank because he wished he could trade his soul crushing desk job for my dinky bike. I felt sorry for him, you could see the longing for adventure in his eyes. Even at stop lights people will roll down their windows and start talking to you. Sure you don't have any close friends or family to keep you company, but I'd say its far from a lonely experience.

what's stopping him?

Not everything is black and white. The shades of gray are stopping him.

If I had a way of making money on the road , I'd be on a motorcycle living out of a tent year round.

I hear you on that.

If I were a better poker player I'd be tempted to grind for a year and build some reserves up so that I wouldn't be entirely dependant on picking up odd jobs.

Alas, I'd likely lose what I have!

I travel for my job extensively and play at least 4 times a week. It is a nice "part time" job, but I wouldnt want to rely on it solely. The swings would be maddening.

Not a monk, but maybe a fur trapper/gold prospector in Canada. I could make enough money to buy the food I couldn't hunt, cloths ammo, and a few other things. Seems like a decent existence.

How/where do I get a job like that in Canada?

Not a job exactly, but companies buy gold, and other companies buy fur. Both take a fair bit of knowledge and some practice. Properly preparing skins for example is a pain, but a good wolf pelt is worth $400, that's a lot of dried peas and multi-vitamins. As to where I've herd you can still find unmined streams deep in the klondike. One guy told me he could hand pan a 1/4oz a day, gold is currently $1300 an ounce, but prospectors are sorta like fishermen when it comes to stories.

You are now between dust and dust and you feel like giving up? You have the glorious privilege of existing, and to be involved in your own becoming and existence.

Intention got you here, use that intention to change the world, take it back from the dead hands crumbling it to pieces. Every pawn can become another queen and change the game entirely at any point.

My family moved onto a boat this year for this very reason. With a water maker. We mostly live on caught fish and rice and drink the water we make. Solar power runs the comfort tech. We're off the grid floating on clear blue waters man.

I work from the boat making software via a satellite or 4G signal.

Pretty much my plan

I always thought of that, but how far deep in the ocean can you go without international police or something gets in your way? Can you travel internationally freely by sea if you own a boat?

I dream of becoming a farmer have a simple life with a family I can actually family if that makes any sense. Yet now a days I feel as if I will be trapped in a high rise still not knowing that I am in jail. Chasing the dream but being inprisoned by it.

Yes.

I have looked into local Buddhist temples that accept visitors / allows newcomers to go through a weekend retreat (or longer). If I can't make it a weekend, I could never make it at a real temple, let alone out in the wilderness by myself. I figure it will be a good experience regardless.

Many Christian monasteries offer similar opportunities as well - even if that's not your thing it could be worth considering.

100%. I just want to be alone....

Yes

And I live somewhere relatively isolated...

This whole month.

Who hasn't? I have dreams even now that I can clearly see myself going for one day. Just picking up some shit I need and then leaving to a destination of my choice. Hopefully with willing and able friends, and just go and live off the land somewhere - anywhere, as long as it's relatively out of sight.

Shangri-La probably exists somewhere

It's inside of you already.... start digging. ;)

Yes! Not just for spiritual reasons but maybe for scientific reasons lol

Thought about finding a secluded island that's uninhabited and building a cabin/shack/house. Just living off the land and ocean. Somewhere that I wont get arrested by the "authorities" as well, lol.

Kll

I think about it all the time. There's this one temple called the Tigers nest (idk if it's Buddhist but I think it is) that looks a little bit like an air temple from the last airbender. I wanna go there so bad lol

Never ever give up. Continue searching the truth. Life is short, seek knowledge and strive for peace. If you are seriously honest in your heart about finding the truth, you will find it. Salam.

I went to an Amish commune on Monday to buy my dog, and I was stunned by how gorgeous their home is, and how they live. Sustainable, surrounded by beautiful nature, knowing you have a system in place that's mostly disconnected from the grid. Makes me feel so powerless seeing how immune they are.

https://i.imgur.com/rJIZwgm.jpg

Find your own path...conventional knowledge is the knowledge of the group not yours. You inherit it in the same way your inherit religion as a kid. To find this path, you must abandon convention, its assumptions and lifestyles...and then and only then can see your path. Wonder that comes from wandering and living for the moment and not for a template or prescribed future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUCa5TrC9Q

Salvage what is left and discover your essense. It is always worth the effort.

Sold out, got divorced, bought a farm surrounded my my ethnic counterparts 10 years ago. Haven't regretted a minute since. I raise my child as I see fit, educate him myself and expose him only to what I feel is safe and correct. We are healthy, happy and successful. The only negatives are when we interact with other humans, this consistently teaches him a life lesson in how shitty people are to each other. Raise your kids where and how you want, I am.

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Thank you!

Best wishes to you in your journey as well.

Enjoy yourself!