more explicitly: a personality disorder increases the suffering of self and others. enlightenment decreases the suffering of self and others. that's the theory, anyway.
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if you claim to have perceived the system of the world, however, and afterward would never ever intentionally harm anyone but just sort of flop around unintentionally harming them all the time despite your hippy dippy peace and love shit, well, you ain't perceive it too good huh
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yet man is born into trouble as surely as the sparks fly upward
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one need not put flowers in their hair to assert that war is the worst thing humans do
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it isn't. but is that an inherently enlightened position or inherent to enlightenment? i don't think it's either necessary or sufficient
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. I’ve found heuristic truth in Leary’s take that one has to feel good to do good.
But operators tell me heightened states of blissful consciousness are also quite useful for killing.