The Pain You Create in Your Mind: The Buddha’s Insight on Suffering - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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"An untrained person, when touched by pain, reacts with sorrow and lamentation, experiencing both bodily and mental pain. But a noble disciple endures only the bodily pain without mental distress."
-The Buddha

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
Here the Buddha is talking about how our mind generates stories. Now, as the Buddha acknowledges, pain is part of life. Physical pain happens to us. We get sick, we get hurt, many things happen in the course of a lifetime, but we often make our pain worse with mental stories, with fear and various forms of anxiety that actually compound our pain. So, acceptance and seeing clearly the pain as it arises and as it endures is different from generating stories and layers of drama and on top of the actual initial pain. So, the Buddha is encouraging us to drop our stories, but to see things clearly for what they are.

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