Hi guys,
I have been thinking just about this on the past weeks after my little accident.
I won't bore you with details, just suffice to say that even if I was in extreme pain for days, I didn't suffer at all. I was at peace with pain. Did not rejected it and did not fight it.
I was impressed how my mind worked then. I was aware of the pain, of course. I could feel it every single time I moved. But just being mindful of it and understanding that pain was necessary for the healing process, made me be at one with it. Sometimes I was even able to forget about it all.
My take on this is that physical pain doesn't equals suffering.
Suffering comes when you reject and fight against any condition you don't like.
Now, it's not that I liked the pain I was feeling. It was just that life was just that and I was contempt with that, regardless of how difficult it was.
Today I got back to running and I am almost near normal.
Gassho,
Kyonin
I have been thinking just about this on the past weeks after my little accident.
I won't bore you with details, just suffice to say that even if I was in extreme pain for days, I didn't suffer at all. I was at peace with pain. Did not rejected it and did not fight it.
I was impressed how my mind worked then. I was aware of the pain, of course. I could feel it every single time I moved. But just being mindful of it and understanding that pain was necessary for the healing process, made me be at one with it. Sometimes I was even able to forget about it all.
My take on this is that physical pain doesn't equals suffering.
Suffering comes when you reject and fight against any condition you don't like.
Now, it's not that I liked the pain I was feeling. It was just that life was just that and I was contempt with that, regardless of how difficult it was.
Today I got back to running and I am almost near normal.
Gassho,
Kyonin
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