Reply #18: but what causes suffering?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

the Buddha said it is desire. Suffering, like everything in this reality, is subjective. And like everything in this reality, it is illusion. God created the universe so that God could realize God. And out of what is everything made? God! This is a grand play with each being an actor on the stage of life. As for God making it impossible for us to understand God--sorry, but I disagree--understanding is very simple, not impossible. But it comes outside the usual way of looking at things, and comes from direct experience. God is That in which we live, move and have our being. As the poet Kabir said, "I laugh when I hear the fish complain that he is thirsty."