What if everything you believe about how to live was installed by someone else?
We're born into boxes — a name, a nationality, a religion, a set of expectations we never chose. Three Adult Lives asked you to question them. Buddhinism asks the next question: once you strip it all away, what do you actually want to give a f*** about?
Stephen Castree's answer is a personal philosophy built by fusing two traditions that rarely speak to each other — Buddhism's wisdom on impermanence and letting go, and Hedonism's conviction that pleasure and contentment are legitimate goals for a life. Together they point to a single, practical aim: maximising your Lifetime Hedonistic Value (LHV) — the total sum of pleasure, peace, and contentment you accumulate across your adult years.
Drawing on Stoicism, Ikigai, Thich Nhat Hanh, Osho, and the world's major religious traditions, Buddhinism distills it all into one workable framework — then applies that framework to the things that actually fill your days: work, love, money, social media, ambition, narcissism, politics, and the question of what happens after we're gone.
It closes with The Ten-Step Buddhinist Path — a concrete, daily practice for clearing your mind, cleaning your body, finding your natural highs, and saying yes more (and no, just as deliberately).
This is not a religious book, and it doesn't ask you to become a monk. It's an invitation to live with more intention, in the one life you've got.
Life is finite. Time is the one thing you cannot save, replace, or spend twice. Yes — you should give a f**.*