Why do some suffer while others get relief?

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> If you don't find yourself being " off the hook " ...are you a screw up?

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> Is it your fault?

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> Are you responsible for the failure of getting off the hook?

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> Is it just that you didn't try hard enough........

> didn't do the Work sufficiently well enough.......

> to achieve what you believe others have achieved?

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> Why do some get relief and others continue to suffer?

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> This line of ... inquiry ... is another entry portal that has been

> employed for well over 2500 years.

***I'm interested in trying this out.

Why do some suffer while others find relief?

This question is difficult to answer without separating people into 'I',

'Me', 'You' and 'Them.' My head is spinning from all the recent posts

about how there is no " I " ... a concept which I studied a few years ago,

and grasped for a moment, but eludes me again. So how to answer this

question?

Well, I suppose I'll just answer automatically with all the beliefs I

have at this moment, and then look at that...? (Not really sure how else

to do this).

So... Why do some suffer while others get relief?

It seems to me a question of so many factors... DNA, which contributes

to someone's tendency to think in certain ways versus others; life

experience... for example, BK having the DNA/ life experiences that made

her the type to 'know what hurts'... and having experiences that lead

her to sink lower and lower in hell, until something in her just knew

that it was attachment to thoughts creating her misery. Or the Dali

Lama... having the DNA (nature) and life experiences (nurture) that

caused him to come to the same realization... perhaps going higher and

higher in heaven until he had the realization.

So, basically it comes down to nature and nurture, which no one

'chooses' or 'controls'.

I remember when I was a child, thinking... 'wait a minute... no one is

at fault for anything... not people who commit crimes, not me when I'm

mean...' because of this whole nature / nurture thing. And then someone

telling me that people have CHOICES, so it is their fault. I believed

this person for a while, but now I'm coming back to the same feeling...

that nothing is anybody's fault.

Sp, why do some suffer while others get relief? Just a luck of the draw,

I suppose...

What do others think? Andy?