WHY SUFFERING EXISTS

Have you suffered? You have just received a painful medical inoculation against the illness of indifference. Anger and bitterness are nasty side effects of this shot but if you continue to grow, the anger and bitterness will fade away with the sweet passing of time. They will be choked out by better things in your Being. But the Compassion will grow in you for all Eternity, until it is a deep, primal, worldwide Forest of Love and Comfort. Have patience with yourself. A weed grows up overnight but it takes a long time to grow a Forest of Sequoia.

 

Time Withers the Weed

Suffering produces two plants

The weed and the Flower

Anger and Compassion

Weakness and Power

 

The Flower evolves forever

Time withers the weed

For to learn Compassion

Is All Life's Greatest Need.

 

It can't be learned in Paradise

There is no suffering there.

So all must tramp this vale of tears

Beyond what their Hearts can bear

 

The Angel and the Alien

The Christ and the Flea

All must gain a broken Heart

And Eyes with which to see

 

The suffering of all Creatures

The Powered and the Poor

Indifference is the illness

Suffering is the Cure.

 

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO TRY AN EXPERIMENT?

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