Necessary Pain, Unnecessary Suffering

“If you stop thinking about how to get out of the body that may be painful or how to keep the body that is pain free, you get to experience the truth.”
Physical pain is an essential aspect of life that serves the survival and well-being of the body, but we can easily turn that necessary pain that alerts us to injury and illness into unnecessary suffering. What is the difference between pain and suffering? What can physical pain reveal to us when we meet it directly?
Recorded April 4, 2001
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