Do you view suffering as random? Do you view it as punishment for sinners? Do you view it as Divine Intervention in human affairs? Do you feel that events have meaning? If so, what is the meaning? If you feel that they have no meaning, examine that as a world view. In other words, do not assume that events have no meaning beyond what you can see, and you can see none. Assume that your understanding that events have no meaning is not necessarily the case. It is your world view. Then ask yourself if you are comfortable with that world view.
However you interpret the events that you encounter, look at your interpretation of events as your way of understanding phenomena that are larger than you can comprehend. That is your world view. Allow your experiences of suffering, your own and other’s, to illuminate for you the world view that you hold and, whatever it is, consider the possibility that your world view is not necessarily the way the world is. Therefore, you can choose the world view that is most comfortable to you, and the most healthy that you can imagine, and experiment with it.
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