What could someone possibly do to deserve this?? It doesn't seem as though karma is fair because the majority of people are not out there torturing others in this way. What's also interesting to me is it says that you will not die until your karma has been exhausted, yet people also say your karma stacks up from other lives, so how can that be if you exhaust your karma in both the hell realms and deva realms before rebirth?
There is something I have been thinking about and it may seem rather ignorant so I apologize. I'm not very familiar with all the teaching of Buddhism and I mean no disrespect.
Siddhartha had a wife and child and he left them when he wanted to understand the cause of suffering. Wouldn't this have caused suffering to his wife and child? Why did he have to abandon them? Is that not selfish in itself to remove his attachments to this world so he could find nirvana?? Why do monks have to leave their families behind so they can seek out nirvana? It just seems selfish in its own way. If anyone could offer insight, I'd appreciate it.