A point of clarification in my last post: readers, despite the aggressive and somewhat abusive nature of my last post, I don't believe that life is all suffering. But having said this, I believe that no life is complete without suffering. In order for one to live a life of bliss and joviality of the highest order, suffering is absolutely integral to one's life. I don't believe that anyone who has lived life truly without any suffering can call themselves happy.
Because while suffering and happiness may be in conflict with each other (as I see it, there are forms of suffering which lead me to sadness, rather than happiness), they also complement each other all the same. And it's not like Yin and Yang, because you cannot have one without the other. It's all about perspective.
I ask you this question.
On a scale between one to one hundred, how happy would Bill Gates be to find $1000 on the ground?
On the same scale.
How happy would a man living in the slums, failing to provide basic food for his family, be to find $1000?
It's all perspective. Suffering breeds happiness, it is an extension of happiness. It is only after our greatest suffering that we can fully appreciate our happiness. Suffering is more integral to a life of happiness than happiness.
Need I say more?
P.S. I can hear some of you thinking, but what if someone's life is all suffering, and their happiness never comes?
Well tough fuckin' cookies. The reality is, that's life. And that's karma for you, or rather, that isn't karma.
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