Originally Posted by Rivendoah

I think the potential for suffering is a condition we accept when we enter into the limitations of this world and allow ourselves to descend from spirit into flesh...

It is different for everyone depending on what they are here to accomplish...

Suffering is painful... pain is a signal to the body that something is wrong... without pain the body would die very quickly... pain teaches us to study that which is causing pain and refrain or move away from it...

Suffering shines a light on things before us that we need to work through both physically and spiritually...

I personally don't believe there is an answer to suffering... just as there is no answer to sleeping... or breathing... or the passage of time...