All suffering then has a meaning and whether the meaning be searched for or not, the suffering should be keenly and intensely enjoyed. This much remains, that there is apparently no practical attempt to aid suffering, as in the attempt to aid suffering the consciousness of that suffering is lost. They tell you that Ahimsa, non-injury, is the greatest of all virtues, but that greater virtue the cure of those who have undergone Himsa is beyond the exoteric schools of Eastern metaphysics. This is what leads to extreme difficulty in the study of their works on Psychology and the like, by the Westerners. What we have to remember is that most of the pleasures in life and that of the most education in life are given by superable obstacles.
Sport including love, depends on the oncoming of artificial or imaginary resistances.
Golf has been defined as trying to knock a little ball into a hole with a set of instruments very ill-adapted for the purpose. In chess, one is bound by purely arbitrary rules. Suffering, I refer to the suffering inflicted by the passing thought as much as to the suffering provoked by contact, is a superable obstacle as is the teaching of the Yogi Philosophy, and the first treatment of suffering is to let it pass. The student is here advised to practice indifference, indifference to any but his own progress. This teaching does not mean the indifference of the Man to the things around him, as it has been often so unworthily and wickedly interpreted.