adam j. hunter:
Does asceticism play any role in Actual Freedom? Logically it would seem having your desires more obvious and aggravated would allow you to more clearly see the harm they and the self causing them cause. maybe eating one meal a day sleeping less etc. would help? any thoughts?
i believe there's enough suffering in normal day to day life that you don't need to aggravate it especially.. and if you're at a point where you're lacking suffering then, good! work on feeling better and getting into PCEs