Contained body in a conditioned world

The wise of the East saw suffering in everything in a worldly life and dreaded the cycle of birth, life and death. Imagine a baby who is just born from the womb of a mother. Suddenly the baby is delivered into this world from the safe and secure shelter of a womb, accompanied by shrilling cry and shivering body with mucous covered with blood and water. The baby enters the world environment which is contaminated with germs, viruses and diseases. The baby is hungry, cold and insecure. The first expression of a baby is a loud and clear cry. A cry for food, shelter and warmth. The life begins with great vulnerability and insecurity. It may be a joyous occasion for the parents but certainly not for the baby because parents have been living in this ‘conditioned world’ for so many years. But the environment is certainly alien to the baby. The baby is entering a ‘conditioned world’ where everything is already set by human beings; the environment, food, climate, language, culture, tradition and beliefs. The infant has no choice but follow the conditioned world. Survival to live is the top priority. The baby needs food, shelter and cloth in order to survive. Once the basic needs are met, then there are emotions. These emotions vary from happiness, anger, jealous, attachment, aversion and disappointment at various hours of a day, sometmes with reason and sometimes without any reasons. These emotions are the result of human interaction with environment and fellow human beings and sometimes in the absence of both. The life becomes complex as the baby grows and survives. The necessity of life grows as the baby grows into childhood and adulthood and so on. It is not just the food ,shelter and cloth but emotions multiply into manifolds in various stages of life and along with these emotions there are suffereings. Nothing lasts forever and we ponder why this impermanence? Why we are brought into this world of sufferings and impermenance? Many of us take miseries of life for granted and conclude that life is full of sufferings and we accept them as a natural process. Only few people in this vast humanity don’t accept ‘suffering’ as a natural process and start questioning them. Why? Prince Siddhartha could not accept suffering as a ‘natural process’ and he wanted to know why this suffering, and what is the purpose of this life on earth? He has to leave his luxurious life in a palace and wander the world as a monk to seek the truth. Why should we live this ‘conditioned life’ where aging, suffering, disease and death become a natural process? Does it make any sense that a human beings are born into this world only to suffer? What is the purpose of this suffering? In this scientific world of men searching for a ‘God particle’, why men don’t look reasons for human suffering? Why we take suffering and misery for granted and waste our time and energy on issues that only compound our problems? Human spirit is free and joyful and it is only our ‘thoughts and actions’ that contain our spirit in a ‘physical body ‘ (like air is trapped in a jar) and bring into this ‘conditioned world’ of sufferings and struggle. Realization of this truth will set the man free. Only our ‘thoughts and actions’ called “past karma” bring us into this constant cycle of birth, life of misery and death. Prince Siddhartha became ‘Buddha’ after this realization. Yet, we continue our path of ‘karma’ and enslave ourselves to this world of ‘Maya’.