[Unseeking Seeker]

Suffering … we must ask the Buddhists here about this.

On a simplistic basis, let’s plot the coordinates of reference with this hypothesis: ‘We are not this mind-body but rather soul indwelling it for earth life experience, the soul itself being an indivisible part of God’

If we can accept this (substituting the word ‘God’ with ‘existence’ or ‘universal consciousness’ if that’s an issue), then the soul’s temporary ’captivity’ within boundaries of body are inconsequential to the soul. It chooses to experience what’s optimal for its development by overcoming adversity. However, the mind-body identity (ego), which assumes an agenda of it’s own is uncomfortable with anything that contracts it (pain) and prefers what expands it (joy). Both are transient, since they relate to decaying form immersed in cyclic duality.

Let’s say that soul has free will but ego does not. Soul co-creates whilst ego responds to what unfolds. So we may say that our responses or instincts need to be honed, in alignment with truth.

So about suffering, it’s the ego’s indulgence with pain, rooted in fear and desire. For the soul, it experiences pain and joy, learns from it and recalibrates it’s luminosity. However, actions not in alignment with source (God, love) creates karma, hence reincarnation where we rotate polarity* (*exchange roles) to see spherically and repay debts of love owed. Once we’re fully love enabled, we move on to unity consciousness.