1.	Why do men suffer, Xavas? Men choose to suffer but they do not know why they choose suffering. Tell me, Lord Xavas, why then do men choose suffering? Tell me for I truly do not know. Because they hold that in suffering can they shall see God. God does not need their suffering but men believe so.

There was a wise master who sat under a great Saaba Tree in a desert Many pupils came to learn from this wise teacher. Each morning they would make a torturous journey through the hot desert in order to get food and water. Upon their return they would offer some of their provisions to their Master. The master would decline their hospitality. It is a torturous route from here to the Java lake, said one of the pupils who was painfully removing a giant splinter from his foot. Why do you wish to suffer so greatly, asked the wise teacher. I must do so in order to get fresh provisions every day, replied the pupil. I see, said the master, while with his left hand he drank the rain from a giant Saaba leaf and in his left he caught a falling Saaba nut.

Why do others cause pain and suffering? Is it because they are unenlightened, Lord Xavas? You, Halaff are the source of all suffering in the world. Halaff was taken aback. But I have never hurt any man or animal. And do I not brush my each and every path with a drajdian brush? Is it not I who keeps silence when others offend me? Xavas replied yes to all these.

How then can you say that I am the source of all suffering, Lord Xavas? Each man carries all he knows in his own mind, explained Xavas. If I speak to you, will you hear me? When you hear me speak, are my words those that I have spoken to you or others changed and unknown to me? Wine comes from my lips but in you ears is it not muddy water? All that is, is truly within and what is within you, Halaff, is of your own creation.