"Mottainai feels like sacrifice at first. Then it feels like the only way to live." Mottainai means waste. Popular with the Japanese for generations, mottainai (pronounced moe-tie-nye) is the Buddhist... This description may be from another edition of this product.
I thought I was buying an instructional manual for working this philosophy more into my life, but it's written as a story/novella format. It was described as non-fiction but in the first pages describes how the fictional story incorporates elements of the truth and hedges what is fiction and historical. Not the self-help format at all. I don't read fiction, preferring working from factual resource material.
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