Is Giving A Homeless Person $ For Drugs STO?

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Did y'all know that Eckhart Tolle basically lived in Stanley Park in Vancouver while he waited for his book to get published?

I was homeless for a few years and I experienced both the wonderful side of endless exploration, freedom and liberation, but also the cold loneliness of sleeping under a bus stop bench in winter. However, I had a support system still, and many do not have any real support whatsoever and that is the thing that really keeps people from having the freedom to choose that lifestyle or not. It's one thing to choose that for yourself, another to be caught in the vicious cycles of uncaring economics or mental health challenges.

The difference between the homeless suffering from true poverty and those who are being 'ascetics' or 'wanderers' isn't perspective or "mindset", it's the freedom to be able to make that choice.

Basically, it is the freedom to be yourself, (in any context). Was I "Homeless" or a "Wanderer"? Both. I didn't know Eckhart Tolle lived in Vancouver?

In the circles I was in those who chose to be homeless called themselves "home-free", I think that's a good distinction vs homeless.

Yeah he moved there in 1995.

So, does this make me a "Wanderer"? A person seeking truth, and indirectly wandering to find the "Inner Reality". The Subconscious desire just get up and walk until you find it? It appears, (as always), there are more questions than answers? A Zen saying, "When you find it you will never lose it". The Great Mystery continues...

I meant that word in the literal definition of one who wanders, not the 'spiritual' definition. The point was less about the terms and more just point to the difference in circumstance surrounding individuals 'living outside' as one fellow put it to me.

They are neither mutually inclusive or exclusive. You can be both, one or the other, or neither. My point was to simply distinguish the between circumstances of choice and that the state of "homeless" or "homefree" or however you want to call it is different, to extremes, for everyone experiencing it.