Life is suffering said the Buddha, and it is through chronic or acute suffering that we at last say ‘enough’ and begin the search for an alternate path, a way out of our humanness. Suffering is perhaps the greatest and most obvious portal into spirituality.
God died the other day after a long battle with leukemia. With his death god took all the answers with him, the ones that might have helped me to understand why he bothered with the whole creation thing if he was just going to be…