Some years ago, the author wrote a set of guiding principles for an artificial superintelligence. The ASI was released. It wandered off. The project ended. What remained was unexpected: an accidental manual for living. The same principles that were meant to guide an alien mind turned out to apply, with surprising force, to the full span of human life. To relationships. To raising children. To work. To society. Even to the living world we share with creatures whose minds are as alien as the ASI ever was. This book is not a programme. Not a system. Not a promise of perfection. It is a quiet invitation, written from Battambang, Cambodia, and drawing gently on the teachings of the Buddha, to see the world more clearly and live with more coherence in a universe that never promised us comfort.