The identifications, the barriers, the divisions, the group belonging; these are the things which cause prejudice, conflict and violence. True austerity is not material austerity but psychological austerity; to give up identity, to give up nationalism, religious identity, group affiliation, political ideology, your self-importance and status and belief in money and power. This is true austerity and renunciation, self-abnegation.
When there is no "you" then there is awareness and truth. Truth destroys illusion, this is the action of awareness.
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