If we slip on some water by the fridge, it hurts, and this makes us pay attention to the problem. Especially for me, who may need to learn the lesson a few times -)Įvents have causes, and sometimes ignorance is what causes certain (often painful & repeated) experiences- so when we learn something from an experience our own ignorance caused, we can better avoid a pattern that resulted in pain. It may seem like we needed to learn the lesson, but that experience isn't the only one out there to teach us that lesson. We leave every difficult experience a different person for having had it. Instead of "everything happens for a reason", I tend to think, "we can learn from everything that happens to us". No, the statement is not true, not when held up to human experience. If the minister or Priest is unskilled, he'll say things like "It happens for a reason and we just have to trust God" or "The child is in God's hands now" or "That's karma, unfortunately" and none of that helps and in fact triggers even more suffering. How are you supposed to guard against that? Why your child and not the hundreds of other children going to school? It's random by the definition that neither you nor anyone can anticipate it. You send a child to school and someone starts shooting on the street and your child is hit by a stray bullet. The truth is, it is random in that we can't plan for, anticipate, and avoid it. So much suffering and death in the world seems random and cruel. If you believe in blind cause and effect, everything from the big bang on happens as one near-infinite chain of events spreading out like waves in a pond and what happens now is the event part of cause-and-event, with each event being yet another cause for eternity.īut really, it's just one of those platitudes we try to use, to make the hurting go away a little bit. You suffer from bad things happening because you did bad things in the past, even past lives, to cause it and that's the reason. If you believe in karma as fate and past life karma in particular, it means everything that happens was caused by past karma delaying the consequences. If you believe in a controlling, omnipresent Divine power, God or whatever, then "Everything happens for a reason" means whatever bad happens to you or the innocent was part of God's plan and we just have to have faith that our suffering serves a greater purpose and that's the reason it refers to. The quote means several things, depending on your assumptions before saying it.
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