Buddhism teaches suffering or dukka,
is a disturbance in the mindstream
and the end of suffering as state of nirvana,
somehow it all leads to elimination of
suffering and acceptance of suffering.
I struggle with the presence of injustice and evil,
as in, the abduction of children, recent case of the three
girls held captive for years - its inexplicable;
if we see God as an attendent and a caretaker
and a fixer of problems - yet there is consciousness and
being and spirit and beauty, and connectiveness.
I do believe we are our brother's keepers and we are stewards
of the earth and we must act or be acted upon.
May be things were set in motion and the outcome is
a mysterious movement of consiousness toward a higher consiousness
I feel things are improving, even though some things are disintegrating
and evil continues. How can I hope to see the universe
when seeing my own existance is so difficult ?
Its like the Heisenberg Principle of Uncertianity.
The Uncertainty principle: Werner Heisenberg stumbled on
a secret of the universe: No thing has a definite position,
a definite trajectory, or a definite momentum.
Trying to pin a thing down to one definite position
will make its momentum less well pinned down,
and vice-versa. We came out of a philosophy of absolute certainty,
where we were taught "perfect knowledge" and
"total security from error"
So from a mental state of being without doubt,
we now face the mystical uncertianty of just being.