Ist the Heaven an Illusion?

The question may have occured to many of us: ”Why do we need to suffer so much in our life, why is there so much suffering on Earth?” As if the whole world has conspired against us, almost everything causes suffering to us. 

We suffer when we are ill, we suffer when things do not work out the way we like or plan. We suffer when we have lost something, we have lost our money or we are left by a loved person.  We suffer when we are not loved, not appreciated, when our performance is underestimated. We suffer when we see our loved ones suffer and we are unable to alleviate their suffering. 


We could go on a loing way, continuing the list of things causing us suffering. On the other hand, there is so little joy in our life. What sense does all this suffering have? Does it have a meaning at all? Or is it just a bad joke of an evil universe?

Let us imagine a life free of any kind of suffering. It is easy to imagine a life in which we do not suffer, where we are healthy, everything we do is successful, when all our wishes are fulfilled, everybody loves and respects us whoever we meet. In this private heaven of ours we could be happy.

We cannot be fully certain about it, as in our isolated existence we are not sure, only guess what makes other people happy. In our isolated state we always use our own experience as a starting point, and assume that what is good for us must be good for others as well, and others suffer from the same thing we suffer from. Extending this logic makes us believe that once we no longer suffer, other people will also have a good time in our imagined heaven. The reality is, however, that the earthly heaven we imagine, and which is free of suffering for us, would cause a lot of suffering for a lot of other people, and would be even a real hell for many.

The seven billion people living on Earth today would create seven billion different and separate earthly heavens if they had a chance to do so. They are in an isolated state of Consciousness, and though there would quite a lot of similar heavens, they would still be different. A common feature of all these heavens would be, however, that suffering would be present in every one of them.

We must conclude therefore that suffering–no matter how much we would like to avoid it–is a part of the life of every single human being. When we are suffering, we never say that ”my body is suffering,” but we say that ”I am suffering” or ”my heart is broken with sorrow.” Suffering is ours, because we ourselves are the suffering itself.  And we suffer because we identify with the suffering.

It is only possible to understand all this when the intensity of our identification with the body and the  psychological Self is weakened a little bit, and we are–even only for brief periods–able to step out of the small prison of our thoughts and mind, and enter the endless space of the Consciousness. 

Suffering in that sense is the alarm call that prevents Consciousness from finally sinking into the dream of separatedness. Suffering is what actually stops us from finally and irrevocably identify with a body and a personal identity.

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Frank is also the author of the following books:

• 3 Stages in the Evolution of the Human Spirit EGO – ALERTNESS – CONSCIOUSNESS
  
  
• The Chant of the Heart: Enjoy the Nectar of Being
  
  
• The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!
  
  
•  The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games?
  
  
• and several other books on consciousness and enlightenment.
  
  

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• Enlightened Consciousness
  
  
• ChangeYour Thoughts,
  
  
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