Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-06-16 02:32:18 · 14 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I think we have to suffer from the grief our ego can create to let our soul grow spiritually for our own personal growth
Our Ego can cause a lot of problems in our lives and we have to give into our Soul
Our Soul will never leed us astray, however our ego can be our best friend and also our worst enemy : )
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-06-16 02:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we don't need to suffer to grow spiritually, but when faced with adversity, people trend to grow faster spiritually than those that do not. Growing in spirit is what matters, not why or how.
2007-06-16 11:38:32 · answer #2 · answered by terry o 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When everything is going great in our lives, we tend not to pay much attention to our spiritual life. We tend to turn to God when that’s all we have. So during those dark times we may learn about trust in God, and come to understand that He will be with us no matter what. Yes. Suffering often gets us to a point where we are willing to pay attention.
2007-06-16 09:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something my mother used to say to me:
"Most wretched men are wrought into misery by wrong. They learn through suffering what others teach in song."
Years later I found her words echoed in the word of the Buddha.
Suffering can precipitate faith in & determination for Enlightenment, in much the same way association with truly good people (sappurisas), and hearing the Dharma, can.
The routes may be different, in terms of happiness or sorrow, but the destinations potentially the same. :-)
I'd say the happy man (or woman) is closer to success.
2007-06-17 00:04:15 · answer #4 · answered by goodfella 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good inclusive question.
In my opinion as a Buddhist, yes. We should face all experiences in order to learn from them. What do we then learn..? We learn that they are impermanent and can observe this impermanence for ourselves from that very observation, keeping remote, without needing to make decisions about them or form opinions about them.
This learning experience then forms part of our growth and understanding of the reality in which we live.
Aversion from some experiences from a Buddhist perspective, is one of the numerous fetters which bind our consciousness, clouding our perceptions regarding the very nature of our existance.
Peace from a Buddhist...
2007-06-16 09:49:31 · answer #5 · answered by Gaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe so, yes. The spiritual journey is about uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all aspects honors Him.
I think the only way to do that is to break our stubborn will
2007-06-16 09:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in a constant state of learner & teacher simultaniously, sharing & recieving, experienceing & being experienced. It is all one.
What does happen is that bursts occur where people gain insights opening their eyes where they had been closed before. Re-evaluating, recontextualizing...staying open yet descerning...it is just like science really, less formal more of a natural free form science! LOL!
Smile, smile, happy, happy, happy hearts.
Peace.
2007-06-16 11:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Jamie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ye the spirit can only empathise through experience so every life time it has a series of tests in which it has to suffer and through this it grows
2007-06-16 12:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the cases , yes. But it is not necessary for we can learn from others. We can grow throw observation of what works and doesn't
2007-06-16 09:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by Weerapat P. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In short - Yes !!!
Suffering & Happiness concurrently exist
(Can it be possible to experience happiness without experience suffering ?)
2007-06-16 09:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋