"Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering" - Woody Allen
AND LIKELY The Buddha would have agreed...!
In times of trouble with the collapse of the old order...people often abandon society...and move into the woods and deserts to live beyond the chaos of their time...
The monastic movement after the collapse of Rome is a good example... The Buddhists institutionalized this idea...their entire system is based on monasteries...where materialism and greed are snuffed out.
