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Xain wrote:  “It’s more like refraining from temporary and transient things such as dancing and art, for they don’t last. One must remain focused on liberation.”

I’m getting the impression that you’re reading this stuff somewhere without fully understanding it.  Clothes are temporary and transient things, but we don’t see Buddhists going around nude.  Food  is  temporary and transient, but Buddhists eat and drink.  All pleasures are temporary and transient, but that’s no reason to abstain from them.  Pleasure is just not the be-all and the end-all of existence.  In a way it’s similar to the Stoicism of the Greeks and Romans.  What’s important is to be grateful for what you have rather than agonize over things you don’t have.