Yes I did.
if you did answer then where in your post is your answer?
TT, just how do you cope with it?
....If you could step aside from all of that and find your union with all things there is no struggle or conflict.
Part of it is here, the rest is in what you didn't paste in your reply.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.....
The system is not complete. It's a summary without specific detail to arise to the outcome of an expanded intellect.
The system you describe is also subjective. Based on a premise that pleasure is bad, in that it breeds complacency, and pain the contrasting drive to stimulate understanding and learning without getting lost in complacency or habit. It won't get you to Union, it will just sharpen skills of choice. IF choice is made at the level in which problems are created, there is no ability to rise above the problem to see the blind influences that created them.
You can't see the forest for the trees without rising above the forest.
