The problem of suffering
how do you resolve the problem of suffering?
The funny part about this is that everybody has heard the term Karma, yet nobody wants to acknowledge such a simple principle. And YET.....and yet it answers the problem of suffering so precisely and so logically and so humanely that it's hilarious nobody applies it to such a question both religious people and non religious. It seems every person understands natural cause and effect but when it comes to moral laws that apply the very same way everyone wants to play dumb.
Karma has more dynamics involved than one would assume at first glance though, because most people only focus on what they see in this one world so they are blinded by the illusion of just a single lifes experience not knowing that a soul can be subjected here on this planet several times over.....In reality the soul is eternal, reincarnation is a real factor, and the non-gender nature of the soul means that a soul that previously occupied a male embodiment can come back and occupy to suffer as a female......a rich man in one life can come back and suffer as a third world peasant subjected to starvation according to what any soul sowed during their previous occupancy. Some times Karma takes effect instantly and sometimes it takes effect in the next life, in other words it's not limited to any one lifetime.
Most people will then start to point to babies, women, "innocent" victims or even poor starving children in certain countries as a way to portray Karma or God's creation as some bad principle or failing system but babies, women and "innocent" victims are simply eternal souls inhabiting bodies and experiences that they themselves created. For example, many people might cry about a serial killer knocking off a hundred or so victims in their lifetime only to get a life sentence in prison and die a natural death or even simply get a death sentence void of all the torture they put others through....what they don't see is that the serial killer might have to come back and experience the same things they put other souls through during several lifetimes, perhaps as babies, perhaps as women, perhaps boys ect ect...according to who they chose to target. They themselves will become the target of such violence.
The far reaching principle of Karma can be so vast you never know where it is manifesting and how, it can appear in so many ways we can't even grasp. This is why we should never judge circumstances we see on this planet as being simply as they appear on the surface, because we are limited by not seeing or understanding the full scope of reality as it applies to those factors I mentioned above. One other very important factor to consider is that the earth is a place where the full scope of Karma plays out all over the world as opposed to more elevated and advanced places within creation. In other words not everywhere you sojourn will have such severe suffering taking place, because this is a low level part of creation where such low level activities take place and manifest this is where you will see a lot of turmoil.
Such a simplistic principle levels the whole playing field if one truly gets what I'm saying. Judging any particular situations then will be of no use, because again...without the understanding that each experience was somehow created through previous factors there is no way to be the judge of literally anything. Without the knowledge of seeing the whole picture there is no way to condemn any one experience.
Undeniably many people suffer and it appears to be a given that some people suffer in ways they do not necessarilly deserve.
This is exactly my point, you have absolutely no logical basis to determine such a thing if you don't understand what Karma means. All you can do is judge the effect but you have no clue to each cause.
Just as clearly not all suffering is the direct result of human actions.
Suffering will always come into play with the reality of duality (and how severe depends on where you exist), as two opposing principles collide and interact cause and effect will always be a factor. Suffering however is not the only side, wherever there is suffering the opposite side of the scale is also experienced. Creation cannot exist without contrasting forces, it is the very contrast between any principle that makes the other viable. Nonduality only exists as an experience within a singular Reality, where then you are completely present as God exists as a state of conscious awareness, transcendent of those factors.
To leave the full state of conscious awareness as the Creator is to enter creation. Each created soul left the Godhead to then enter creation, and where each soul enters is where you experience varying levels of Karma and duality.
