Suffering There is no one who isn’t suffering. Buddhism is built on that very idea. Life has friction built into it. My purpose here is to explain that suffering for the sake of righteousness is a very particular kind of suffering, and it tells you something about the way a person is living.
There are plenty of reasons people suffer that don’t mean anything at all. Some suffering is physical. Some is genetic. Some is just the wear and tear of being alive. Those don’t count, because they aren’t caused by behavior. They don’t reveal anything about a person’s character.