How Is Life’s Suffering Perfect?

A question that seems to be popping up lately from many directions is basically this in one form or another:

How can everything possibly be perfect? What about the homeless, rape, child molestation, murder, torture, mental illness, world hunger, suicide, war… these things are horrible! Just look at life as we know it. It’s full of suffering! How could any God design a world that includes all these horrific things and then call that perfect?

What an outstanding question, isn’t it? I love this question because it’s really taking no crap and it’s not buying into the lovey dovey perspective that life is all wonderful, full of rainbows and hearts, clovers and blue moons! It’s a very practical and pragmatic perspective.

Let’s get down to brass tacks. I hope you brought your brass tacks!

Perfect does not mean Painless

First of all, perfection does NOT equal painlessness. Just because something is painful does not imply that it is any less than perfect.

A mother can go through childbirth and experience an immense amount of pain in the process. Some mothers even proclaim, “I’ll never do that again!” Yet what often happens just a short while later? They want to have another child and go through the experience again! What’s going on… Did you forget how painful it was?

Sometimes the payoff can be worth the pain.

The experience of pain can be VERY valuable in the end. Have you ever had a painful life experience that turned out to be one of the greatest things that could have ever happened to you? In retrospect, would you have gone through the same pain all over again?

God knows what’s up. We don’t go through pain for no good reason. There’s a method to the madness.

Sure there are often less painful ways of going about it, but there is still value in every path nonetheless.

Life is a Dream

What we call “real life” is very much like a dream. Imagine having a nightmare. During the nightmare you’re really living that experience! Your heart is pumping and your palms are sweating. The experience feels totally real!

Yet it isn’t until after you wake up that you fully realize that the fear of death or of being hurt in the dream wasn’t actually a legitimate threat. You can experience pain and suffering, for sure, but that doesn’t mean you were ever actually in any danger.

What if you were to realize this in the midst of your nightmare? Suddenly the experience you were afraid of, whatever it is, you’d no longer be afraid of it, even as others around you were running around in a state of panic. Ooh, what freedom!

Consider your Past Lives

We’ve all lived many many lives before, likely hundreds of lives if not more. In those lives you have probably been tortured, had a loved one reject you, broken a bone, or been farted on by a cow. Y’know… life can suck sometimes!

Yet here and now, in this lifetime, are you still actually in any danger? Does what happened really matter? Sure there may be some karmic ramifications, but even so, aren’t you still okay today despite having gone through many horrible experiences in past lives?

No matter what happens in this lifetime, no matter what, you’re going to be okay. All is well.

Every Experience Is a Creative Choice

Everything that you experience is a choice that you are choosing, be it consciously or unconsciously, before birth or during your life. (Even your future lifetimes affect your current experience, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic.)

Either way, every experience you’re having is something that you as a vibrational being are choosing to experience in order to give All That Is (yourself) yet another perspective of itself/yourself and All That Is thanks you immensely for your choice.

Nothing “wrong” is happening by any means. The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly the way it’s designed.

Remember Who You Are

No matter how horrible of an experience you’re having, you (Who You REALLY Are) are safe and in no danger whatsoever. If there is nothing else “out there” but you and you exist eternally, what could possibly threaten you?

The only reason you perceive any threat and experience that which we call fear is because you have forgotten who you are and thus created a sense of “other” in which “you” could be afraid of, even if that “other” thing is just a thought.

Humanity is going through a period of rapid transformation. It’s literally a revolution in human consciousness.

Look at all the spiritual things that are coming to the surface.

Things like The Secret and The Law of Attraction are becoming household terms.

Our new President is moving away from “the war on terror” mindset and towards open communication with our “enemies.” Pretty cool.

It used to be that the only enlightened people were those who’d died thousands of years ago and so we’ve been relying on them to save us. Today there are thousands of people all across the world awakening. Truly awakening to their true nature. Enlightenment is no longer something reserved exclusively for the Buddha. Today you and I can be the living Buddha.

From Perfection to Perfection

Have you noticed that some of the most enlightened people who ever walked the earth, those who have gone really deep into their awakening, they have realized that everything is perfect and all is well. Even life’s problems are perfect. Nothing needs to be done to make anything perfect, much less better.

Nevertheless, these people commit their lives in service to others to help others awaken and realize the perfection that already exists. They impact the world to an incredible degree!

It’s like that which is awake has a tendency to inspire other aspects of itself to awaken. It’s not a form of improvement, but simply a flow of evolution.

In a similar way that a perfect acorn develops into a perfect tree rather than an imperfect acorn turning into a perfect tree, an enlightened person who already sees perfection will often help others to see the perfection as well, even though it’s not “necessary” in the traditional sense since everything is already perfect, including the perception of imperfection.

So when we speak of perfect, it’s not about settling down into the total absolute stance of everything is perfect and thus nothing else needs to be done, but also engaging in the expansion of consciousness so that more of consciousness itself awakens to the reality of itself.

It’s an interesting game! What we call “suffering” is part of the game that consciousness plays with itself to help itself awaken to itself.

No Longer Needing the Contrast

“History has a tendency of repeating itself.”

Have you ever made the same mistake over and over again? I know I have! It often isn’t until we get totally fed up with our life the way it is that we decide we’re no longer gonna keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results.

After lots of trial and error we can realize that every time we make this same particular choice, we keep getting the same basic results. Interesting! We start to realize the correlation between our beliefs, our choices, and our experiences.

After a while, we’re no longer needing to keep walking into the wall to realize that we only wind up getting a headache and not actually moving forward.

We no longer need to manifest for ourselves a drastic experience which shows us the consequence of a particular action or habitual pattern.

Eventually we no longer need to keep bringing the contrast into awareness to know that it’s something we don’t want for ourselves anymore. We can simply choose what we do want and vibrate in harmony with who we truly are. We make the higher choice every time because we know in advance what the other choices will bring us. We’ve mastered ‘em.

When we see that suffering is no longer an expression of who we truly are, we stop creating it for ourselves.

We keep going through suffering until we no longer need to. We repeat the same mistakes until we don’t any longer.

A big part of spiritual evolution is realizing that you don’t need to suffer. You really don’t! Events that arise are simply events that arise. What is is what is. Surrender all resistance to what is, judge not what is, and you shall no longer suffer.

End your own suffering and you serve as a model for others, showing them that it’s actually possible for them to be suffering-free! You grant them the gift of possibility! You can’t fix the world, but you can be the change you wish to see in the world!

Do be do be do. Skibby do bop.