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WHY'S THERE SO MUCH SUFFERING?

Two green figures: one slumped on the floor, the other standing with its head in its hands
AND WHO'S TO BLAME FOR IT?
...and if there is a God why does He let it happen?!

What if everything happens for a reason?

Mark Anders in 'Conversations With Naboth' provides the following summary:
Nothing is coincidence.
All-That-Is, or Consciousness, is in a perpetual state of balance. Homoeostasis is achieved by the constant exchange and balancing of energy created by every living and non-living thing.
With regard to human beings, every thought, action and deed contributes energy to the balance of the All That Is.
Our subconscious steers us through our life by putting us in the right place, at the right time, to do the right thing, to create the right energy, to create the right balance. All the things that we do are necessary to All That Is, or we wouldn’t do them.
Sneezing, coughing, laughing, eating, sleeping, watching TV, running a marathon, running a bath, scratching an itch, saying something nice, saying something horrible, making things, breaking things, behaving well, behaving badly, winning, losing, living in peace, living in war, fighting for freedom, fighting to enslave. All are absolutely necessary to create the appropriate energy, and all happen for a reason.
The reason is Balance.
We all react in ways which are individual to ourselves. To see someone starving may create sorrow, anger, or indifference. All these emotional energies are needed, as well as the energy of the person who is starving.
This is perhaps the hardest truth to accept, but that energy itself is appropriate and needed. Bearing that in mind, we ‘choose’ the life we are going to live, an overview that we appear to lose conscious awareness of once we are here.
(Conversations With Naboth: A summary by Mark Anders. 2012)
Portrait of Gandhi
‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world. If you want to stop terrible things happening in the world first stop them in yourself. If you want peace and joy then find them in yourself’.
The implication of Gandhi’s message is that you’re already affecting the world - it’s just that you could also be in control of the way you affect it. He’s also implying that you and the world are undivided. If we agree that consciousness is the ground of all being then we must conclude that mind and matter are two faces of the same coin. Out of consciousness you create your personal reality, so: Your body is your personal sculpture - it reflects your mind. The culture that you belong to is a sculpture created by everyone in it – it reflects the consciousness of your society. The world is sculpted jointly by all conscious entities and reflects the splendid evolution of mind and matter over billions of years. Seen in this light we begin to recognize the extraordinary power of imagination and how we all have a part in creating reality.
Cartoon of a self-sculpting mannequin
So next time you ask, ‘Why is there so much suffering?’… You may find the answer in yourself
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