Talk:Doctrine 1/@comment-81.175.133.194-20100918105554

Epicurus says in this doctrine that a person can achieve a state of "indestructibility" when he or she he or she is free from anger and partiality and so causes no trouble to him/herself or others with his negative thoughts and actions. Only then he/she is freed from the things that hurt us the most. It does not even say if this level is attainable in the real world or that it would be easy to attain. In fact this quite Buddhist thought can be read just as a goal to be sought after, even if it is not in real life possible to wholly get there. The real rewards come from the process itself and it might just be that the goal is never reached, but it does not matter, if the reaching for that goal changes something in a person.

From: http://beinghuman.blogs.fi/2009/08/16/the-epicurean-principal-doctrines-are-a-collection-of-forty-quotes-6738702/