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Try to yank it out, and the pillar will resist, or the roof will fall on your head There’s a reason those enlightenment-seekers end up on the streets, penniless, homeless, having abandoned their spouses and children. They pulled out the pillar, and this is what happens.
Not to say that’s bad. If you wanna do that, go right ahead. But if you’d like to replace suffering without going through the whole jobless, homeless, abandoning family phase . . . Understand the critical loads suffering is bearing in your system.
Suffering gets you to stop playing games that are unfair and unproductive. Suffering gets you to make changes you’d otherwise not make. Suffering gets you everything from retrospective life satisfaction to survival.
This single article from @Aella_Girl put her in the same mental category as Alan Watts for me. I reference it so often I have a custom short-link to it. https://t.co/iDTjjLzhDN