December 21, 2006

• Suffering in Children

   

  Wouldn’t be wonderful if we could spare our children from all suffering?  Most parents I talked to would say yes.  I wouldn’t think so.  I think we must allow for children to suffer at time.  Suffer could come as the consequences of their own mistakes or from the events that happens in their lives that they cannot control.  If we don’t allow for the children to suffer, they would not evolve as human being and would remain shallow, identify only with external forms of things. 

   

  The thought “I should not have to suffer, “projecting to “My child should not have to suffer” is itself the root of suffering. 

   

  I think we need to teach our children not to distort the truth.   And the truth is that there is suffering and will be suffering if they are to live in this human body.  The truth is that the children need to say yes to suffering before they can transcend it.  I think that suffering has a noble purpose.   The paradox is that suffering is cause by the ego and suffering will destroy the ego.  But not until the children suffer consciously.  Resisting suffering will create more egos to burn up.  When they accept suffering, they suffer consciously. 

   

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