The cause of suffering

Dear Kgana, We suffer if we do not know that we and our circumstances are perfect, were always perfect and will ever be perfect. If we see that one thing leads to another, we would see the inevitability of the situation we are in. An effect has necessarily to be in a certain way because we determined the cause to be in a certain way. How we now react to the effect determines the type of cause we generate for future effect. So the chain is always perfect and when we see the perfection at play, we would not try to change anything but our reaction to a happening. This acceptance of the effect will cause suffering to end and the effect, however horrible it may have seemed at one time, becomes the cause of awakening to the bliss of perfection.

The stroke that has affected your mother is no doubt causing her and all who love her to suffer. Your mother, in the midst of actual suffering, has to take the aid of medical science to get over her immediate suffering. When she is much better, by and by she has to practise techniques of calming the mind, like mantra-recitation. From the vantage point of a calm mind, she would be able to see the perfection of her life and she would never suffer again, come what may.