how do you feel about the one buddhist viewpoint is that the bottom line is the be happy, adn increase teh happiness of others? or also to decrease suffering whenever it's possible/doesn't increase your own suffering, and both of these ideas (happness/suffering) hinging on "start with yourself"?

i have some exposure to buddhist thought including life is pain. in yoru post i am taking it that this: "With that view, your main reason to live is to make your life as comfortable as possible, substituting one drug for another to make life more bearable." was in reference to vicar in particular? or is that being held up as a goal? (i would guess no because you call that exhausting )...

so...with that in mind, what were you taught as the purpose of life? just BE? that's the shape my life has been taking of late and i have never been happier :) lol