| You can’t go preventing pleasure and pain, you can’t keep the mind from labeling things and forming thoughts, but you can put these things to a new use. If the mind labels a pain, saying, 'I hurt,' you have to examine the label carefully, contemplate it until you see that it’s wrong: the pain isn’t really yours. It’s simply a sensation that arises and passes away, that’s all. |
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- Upasika Kee Nanayon, "Tough Teachings To Ease The Mind"
I read this quote and thought about living in the present moment. When a person is present, pain has a harder time being present. It is like trying to have two beings inhabit the same space. It is not possible. Pain does pass.
Blessings,
Judy