Working on understanding Shantideva and others who celebrate 'familiarizing myself' with the nature of my suffering, the context, ... instead of running from it.
Here is a link to a nascient chat on this topic: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a693bdf-c3f0-83ea-8c66-70e080202e0b
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hanshan
From the text at link above
- As for me, I delight in the every day Way
Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves
Here in the wilderness I am completely free
With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever
There are roads, but they do not reach the world
Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts
On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night
While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain
