Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.