The life as lesson theory feels punitive. It suggests that we’re defective in some way and some external force with a master plan is making us suffer so we can redeem ourselves. I don’t buy it.
I think that more often than not we forget that we are that force, that we are what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin so eloquently said, “ We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Our suffering and pain stems from the focus being heavily weighted toward the human experience and only scantily toward the nurturing of our spirit, a nurturing that has nothing to do with religiosity.
In fact we continue to surround ourselves with things that will move us further away from our spirit. Our hyperactivity, our spending large amounts of time on small things, our obsessive need for drama and NOISE, is the antithesis of nurturing spirit.
Our true punishment is this, it’s this moving away from our spirit. It isn’t a lesson of life -- it is life. We are not being afflicted externally, we are afflicting ourselves.
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