08-13-2020, 06:15 PM
(08-13-2020, 04:40 PM)Sunclarity Wrote: I believe I understand it minimally and see that sufference is helpful. It's a motivator. When we are healthy, we don't care whether we are aware of great clarity/love. When we are sick, we desperately want to feel better, we want love more than ever before. So, sufference intensifies our wish to love. But, I was thinking, it didn't have to be sufference. When we don't want to do something, we can give ourselves punishment. We can make us do sit-ups. Stare at a wall, etc. But we can also give us reward. That is to say, since intensity is the key, instead of great pain, great joy would do the job of intensiying equally well. Or so I think. I suppose I can ask this question in another way now. If joy can work as motivator to love as well as sufference, why did the creator choose to distort, to suffer?
I think it's really up to each creator why suffering is chosen, since all individual experiences are personal and chosen by each creator.
Through great stress one can experience great growth, and in growing through difficulty one can offer greater and perhaps more unique service to others. I think that no matter the degree of suffering, it can be useful to find gratitude for the opportunities it presents; in this way, the individual may be primed on a chemical and perhaps epigenetic level to enjoy growth instead of deterioration.