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It gives no thought to what one does about the things done to one by others not so indoctrinated.
How does one handle the evil things done to him? It is not told in the Buddhist rule.
So long as one fears or suffers from the effect of violence, one will have violence against him. When one can experience exactly what is being done to one, ah, magic, it does not happen!
How to be happy in this universe is a problem few prophets or sages have dared contemplate directly. We find them “handling” the problem of happiness by assuring us that man is doomed to suffering. They seek not to tell us how to be happy but how to endure being unhappy. Such casual assumption of the impossibility of happiness has led us to ignore any real examination of ways to be happy. Thus, we have floundered forward toward a negative goal—get rid of all the unhappiness on Earth and one would have a livable Earth. (Confront means to face something without flinching or avoiding.) If one seeks to get rid of something continually, one admits continually he cannot confront it—and thus everyone went downhill. Life became a dwindling spiral of more things we could not confront. And thus we went toward blindness and unhappiness.
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