Suffering is far more simple. Suffering arises due to ignorance. Suffering is self-created and self-inflicted in ignorance and misunderstanding.

While suffering, by and large, ceases when the illusion of "me" shatters...suffering really does not cease by the belief that All is 'Itself' (One), and the capacity to resonate with, have faith, or trust in, that belief. It is not about belief, but profound, direct understanding. Understanding arises when you see...like when people say, "oh, I see." So look deeply at suffering (and the roots and sources of suffering) and understand it. Better yet, look deeply at the "me" and understand it.

second time I've heard this today... I'll say again there are examples for example job and the guy in isaiah, both were righteous in their own right and yet through no fault of their own a great deal of suffering was brought down on them. And doubtless there have been countless others in the same boat. So to dismissively say to someone 'your fate is all your own fault' is quite mean.

I believe that was a statement about second arrow suffering. https://mindfulnessmeditation.net.au/arrow/

The parable of the second arrow is a well-known Buddhist story about dealing with suffering more skilfully. It is said the Buddha once asked a student,

‘If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful? If the person is struck by a second arrow, is it even more painful?’

He then went on to explain,

‘In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.’


Pain Is Inevitable; Suffering Is Optional https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ng-is-optional

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Viktor Frankl

His ability to retain that degree of psycho-spiritual autonomy in the most horrific circumstances imaginable provides a remarkable example of intrapersonal strength, grace under extreme duress, the power of personal choice, and the Serenity Prayer in action.

What suffers? Is it the mind, body, something else, or all that we are? I view suffering as germane to having a body. I have heard people talk about pain deep in their soul, and while there may be incongruence that takes place deep within us, I do not feel such vacancies are visited upon the greater one-ness of being.

Most suffering is either physical, mental, or emotional. Suffering often involves pain and it is my experience that our soul, or deeper being, is inextricably made of a fabric that is rich and sweet, exuding only love. I do not feel that pure being which is within me, which is untouched by this world, is capable of experiencing pain.

Pain and suffering is transitory; it is about impeded motion, or difficult transitions. The physical body, our mind and emotions, are in constant transition, going through a process that resembles the normal curve. My deeper being exists in non-duality where transitions between opposite poles do not exist. A person can transcend their suffering if they have developed their consciousness to do such. Also a person who is suffering often finds peace from suffering when they sleep; if suffering were part of our eternal nature we would not be able to escape it.

Could you explain why you think there would be a different reason for suffering if manifestation was not infinite?

Manifestation is held in place/maintained by oneness. Not only that, oneness completely permeates and saturates manifestation because oneness is infinite. If you say manifestation is absent of oneness, then oneness is no longer infinite as it does not occupy manifestation. This would mean the manifestation is phenomenological and separate. If oneness completely saturates and permeates manifestation entirely, you could make the case that manifestation IS oneness, or manifestion is oneness appearing as manifestation

And then finally Realisation is not a manifestation. it is merely the dropping of the illusion of manifestion, realising that manifestion does not and never did exist in the way the seperate sense of self believes it to be. So in a way realisation does not exist because there was no phenomological event, it could actually be the opposite of a phenomonological event as it transcends duality, it is not linked in the causal chain that we consider to be duality

Im welcome for an alternative view as this is not a felt experience for me, atleast not right now, but it has made sense previously but unfortunately ego asserts itself lool

On another forum, somebody just linked to a video, where Nisargadatta Maharaj was quoted:

02:24 you're not experiencing suffering
02:27 you are suffering you're experiencing
02:30 which means
02:31 that there's nothing called suffering
02:38 a suffering is about an attitude in
02:40 which you meet things
02:42 it is not something that exists in
02:44 itself you cannot show a sample of
02:46 suffering
02:46 it is a state in which you are meeting
02:48 your life what he did by answering in
02:51 that way
02:51 is he gave back the power to you to say
02:54 no

Suffering is caused by negative energies. Amen

. If you work out the reasons why you're suffering you will find a solution to the suffering and hopefully suffer no more. THEN you will become one with self and not one with suffering. Becoming one with self is difficult but the reward is priceless.
The short story of the "elephant rope" is a very good read that I would recommend for anyone.https://steemit.com/motivational/@da...nt-rope-belief

An alternative view is that realisation does exist and is experienced as an actual event at a particular moment in time.

If we only know duality then all concepts of Oneness are just ideas in our head. Whatever reality we experience is based in duality.

The realisation of Oneness is more than just the dropping of the illusion of manifestation. It is a complete surrender, and at the moment of surrender we enter a state of pure emptiness. We then discover that this emptiness pervades all manifestation, without limitation, and this emptiness is our true nature. This emptiness is also fullness, because nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken away from it.

This emptiness is experienced as an unchanging state of one thing everywhere. Before the moment of realisation this emptiness is unknown to us in our limited forms. After the moment of realisation this emptiness is our daily ever-present reality.

Just an alternative view.

Peace

A koan! :icon_thumleft: