I believe this is one of the most difficult lessons, at least at the beginning, and at least it was for me two years ago. One could always ask: What about the atrocities in Africa, what about concentration camps in Europe, 9/11, etc., etc. Or: Why God created so much suffering if He is pure love?
Well, as we know by now, God didn’t create it. But what’s more interesting, God didn’t create what we consider beautiful, successful, pleasant, at all that neither.
Listen to an unknown Taoist sage from the Ming dynasty (XIV-XVII century): “When you seek the mind in the past, present, and future, the mind is not there. When you look for delusion in the heart, delusion is originally not there. In that original nonbeing is enlightenment.” And what is this world, if not a creation of this mind, this ego of ours? So, the mind isn’t anywhere to be found. So, going farther, we can say that all we see, the whole world is like a bubble; the soap it is made of is our mind.
Only when we can see through the delusion, we will sense our own and everything else’s state of nonbeing. And in that “nonbeing” resides God. (At least this is what I think :)