The hopeful teaching of this book is that while everybody suffers, most of this
suffering is unnecessary--it can be overcome. The legacy of Aristotle is that we
think that things must be either true or untrue. Thus we tend to think in terms
of polarities: good or evil, right or wrong, Democrat or Republican. This
friend-or-foe approach may seem to make life easier, but Russell Targ and J. J.
Hurtak in The End of Suffering, assert that this worldview only increases our
experience of suffering.
In an effort to overcome the polarity of opposites and the accompanying
suffering, Targ and Hurtak combine the wisdom of the East