What is pain? And what is suffering?
Let us try to explore and introspect. Pain is inevitable, pain is physical in nature, when we get hurt, physically or emotionally we experience pain, an accident, an injury, a heart break so on and so forth. Pain is a defense mechanism evolved over the time for our well being, you take your hand towards the fire and that defense mechanism will make you feel the burn indicating to take steps against it. When you meet with an accident or hurt yourself self, the body will have the sensation of pain which helps us to understand the injury and take steps towards the easement of the same. When you are emotionally attached to someone or something and its is taken away, you feel the same intensity of an emotional pain as the physical which tells you and your body to heal that emotional wound. Pain is a basic fear for all humans, its important. Pain is also experienced while the act of sex, or during an intense workout. Also during strict spiritual and occult practices. Some of the pain we experience, we get addicted to over the period of time.
It is commonly referred as “sweet pain”, the pain that eventually leads to pleasure, the pain that is needed to endure for the growth in different areas of life.
Its crazy that most of the world is either running away from the pain or towards it. Without the sensation of pain, it is not even possible to keep up the integrity of the physical and psychological structure that we call as ourselves. Then why is it that it is seen as a negative factor?
The answer is quite obvious, “suffering”. People are capable of suffering something that happened 4 days ago, 4years ago even something that happened centuries ago. This, suffering may have its origin in pain but has nothing to do with reality what so ever. Suffering is simply and frankly stupidly a self created burden. You had an injury, you felt pain, and depending on the intensity of the injury you also went through its effects. That is about it, that is reality, way of life, cause and effect but as a human being, with the tremendous power that we possess, we also possess the capacity of suffering. We can take a small heart break and make it into a matter of life and death just in our minds, this is suffering. It has no basis in reality, after a point it has even nothing to do with the pain that caused it, it is just imagination and lack of understanding. Suffering from something in your mind is taking away every chance to be alive. You will cut yourself out completely from life. You entangle yourself forever just because you are suffering, and that to nothing but suffering from your own imagination and memory, which is also limited to your own understanding and perspective.
You suffer simply because of the lack of understanding, understanding of the self.
Pain is a life sustaining, important evolutionary mechanism, where as suffering is imaginary, self created entanglement.
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