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Recieved: 2003/04/08 18:21
Subject: Re: [K-list] pain & suffering
From: Rita Metermaid

On 2003/04/08 18:21, Rita Metermaid posted thus to the K-list:

> Hi Janet, All -
>
> --- Janet Brockett <yeshecho AT_NOSPAM mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Shinzen Young :
> >
> > Suffering = pain x resistance.
> >
> > No resistance no suffering.
> >
>
> I like the way you put that; thanks for sharing the
> equation.
>
> There's another saying "Life is pain, but suffering
> is
> optional."
>
> We all have different pain thresholds, and who is to
> say that one way of experiencing or coping is more
> "right" than any others. Personally, i have a
> profoundly high tolerance for physical pain, but
> there
> are some emotional things that get me in the heart
> every time. We are all the same in that we *feel*
> things, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, but
> we
> are all different in our varying capacities.
>
> Anyway, if anyone is interested, Jon Kabat-Zinn who
> is
> a professor of medicine at Univesity of
> Massachusetts
> Medical School, speaks to the questions "Can
> Buddhist
> practice liberate us from the prison of physical
> pain?
> How can meditation help when medicine falls short?"
> in this excert of "At Home in Our Bodies: An
> Interview
> with Jon Kabat-Zinn (excerpt)" in Trycycle.
>
> http://www.tricycle.com/currentissue/kabat-zinn.html
>
> Maybe it will be useful to some people.
>
> love,
> rita
>
>
> <snipping to be good, 'cos sometimes i forget>


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