What is the Real Purpose of Suffering?
Desires to things and people are the cause of suffering because attachments are transitory, so loss will be inevitable.
Things in the universe are changing all the time so joyful moments need to be embraced rather than expect them to stay the same. This also means difficult times will not last forever either.
Attachment in relationships also causes suffering because a person is needing their partner to be in an unchanged state, so they can depend on them.
Non-attachment is living your life without your happiness being defined on what the outcome will be.
Any true source of peace, happiness and contentment is not provided by anything outside of oneself although the illusion is there that it exists.
Suffering is the path to compassion.
What is the Real Purpose of Suffering?
You want me to give you the magic bullet to get you out of the hell you are in?
Here it is:
The real purpose of suffering is to break your heart so fucking wide open that you finally let go of every single thing you ever believed and every last piece of your ego, to the point that you fall to your knees and beg God, the Universe or whatever you call Source, to help you.
You literally open up your arms and say, “I am willing.”
Because it is at that point, and that point only, that you have any chance at enlightenment, self-transcendence, to understand the real reason you exist at all.
You see, you were meant to be way, way, way more brilliant and beautiful than you ever let yourself be.
You were meant to know love, really, really know it.
And believe it so profoundly in your heart that it can never be taken away from you.
I know this sounds incredibly harsh. But if you are suffering, you need an answer. And there it is.
There is, of course, an easier, more gentle path.
You muster every ounce of yourself that you can and seek Higher Truth every single day.
Rain or shine.
I suggest you take that path, but if you are like me, you may choose to go through hell before you get to heaven.