29/09/2026
There is a difference between pain and suffering, and most of us never separate the two.
Pain is the sensation. The tightness in the chest, the ache, the wave of feeling moving through the body. It arrives, and if you let it, it moves through and passes.
Suffering is what the mind adds on top of the sensation. The story about it. Why it should not be here. What it says about you. Whether you should even feel this way at all. That story is not the sensation itself. It is resistance to the sensation, dressed up as thinking.
And the story is what keeps you stuck. The sensation would move through on its own, but every time you explain it, argue with it, or push it away, you pull yourself out of the feeling and back into the thinking about it. So it circles instead of passing.
You can catch the moment it happens. The instant you start justifying or over explaining how you feel, you have left the sensation and stepped into the story.
The way through is simpler than the mind expects, though not always easy. Stay with the sensation. Let it be what it is, without the story about it. Feel it, rather than think about it.
The sensation passes on its own. It is the story we keep circling in that makes us suffer.
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