In this episode we discussion renunciation. What does it mean to renounce something or someone? When and why should you do it? Should you renounce family and friends to pursue a path of religious purity? Should you renounce alcohol because "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic"? Hear what we think?

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Text:

Yoshido Kenko, Essay in Idleness, trans. Meredith McKinney (London: Penguin Classics, 2013), 26.