The Art of Happiness

approach. If you directly confront your suffering,you will be in a better position to appreciate thedepth and nature of the problem. If you are in abattle, as long as you remain ignorant of thestatus and combat capability of your enemy, youwill be totally unprepared and paralyzed by fear.However, if you know the fighting capability ofyour opponents, what sort of weapons they haveand so on, then you’re in a much better positionwhen you engage in the war. In the same way, ifyou confront your problems rather than avoidthem, you will be in a better position to deal withthem.“This approach to one’s problems was clearlyreasonable, but pressing the issue a bit further, Iasked, “Yes, but what if you directly confront aproblem, and find out that there’s no solution?That’s pretty tough to face.”