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**Searmoreibe** · 01-06-2012, 04:14 PM

If we are going to discuss suffering we must include children.

Hi tjampel,
And any other sentient being too. If we look around at nature (which includes ourselves) it is a process of consumption. All creatures feed, in order to survive and all are subject to aging, sickness and death.

To say some suffer and others do not is to impose a value judgement, which is unnecessary. To say some perhaps bring suffering upon themselves (or have earned it in some manner) and others do not is to impose a moral framework, which is also unnecessary.

Buddha didn't impose these judgments, rather he discovered the cause and the means to bring cessation to it.

01-06-2012, 04:14 PM	#13
Searmoreibe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	If we are going to discuss suffering we must include children. Hi tjampel, And any other sentient being too. If we look around at nature (which includes ourselves) it is a process of consumption. All creatures feed, in order to survive and all are subject to aging, sickness and death. To say some suffer and others do not is to impose a value judgement, which is unnecessary. To say some perhaps bring suffering upon themselves (or have earned it in some manner) and others do not is to impose a moral framework, which is also unnecessary. Buddha didn't impose these judgments, rather he discovered the cause and the means to bring cessation to it.
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