The Importance of Avoiding Suffering

I've read a lot of books about Buddhism. And just because I own the books and literally like me buying the books being like in light no I feel like it's so interestingBecause I haven't meditated in a while and I really want to get back into it but I can see why like owning those books and even have or like even having like a little idol of Buddha next he makes you feel like oh I'm doing something good without actually doing the difficult work of working through my own shit. The universe also always finds ways to like check you on your ego like yeah I mean I definitely experience that with like i had a really bad Shroom strip and I definitely went into the Sh