Suffering can be a powerful tool; few things incentivize me to action more than suffering. I don’t seek it…but if it comes along, I try to make use of it.

People use various [meditations/rituals] to block out distractions that keep them from “stillness,” but I believe that approach is a halfway measure;  [mediation/ritual] is not designed to “block out” distraction; it is designed to evolve someone to the point where they can incorporate ANY STIMULUS into their mental flow… So that they can see past the illusory…

We neurotically buttress ourselves against suffering and death, but end up suffering or dying regardless.  So given these inevitabilities, why not follow our hearts?  Why not try and glimpse what has been hinted at by wise people; what we know (somewhere deep in our hearts) will make light and dark, suffering and comfort, death and…