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Why do we suffer?

Pain arrives in many forms: illness, loss, fear, loneliness, injustice, and the quiet ache that even good days do not finally settle.

Every human life meets suffering sooner or later. Traditions do not give one identical explanation. Some look at craving and clinging. Some speak of broken relationship with God or neighbor. Some ask how suffering can open compassion rather than close the heart.

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