An illness or an injury is a wonderful thing. It brings to our consciousness our fixation on wanting pleasure and avoiding pain. It also illustrates how we perceive our happiness to be dependent on only good things and pain is to be avoided at all costs. But both pleasure and pain are impermanent and if we want our happiness to last forever or want the current pain to end, we are deluding ourselves and inviting suffering.
It is our attachment to our body that brings real pain. We expect it to never hurt or decay. It would be better to honor the changes and live in the moment. As a Zennist would say: “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
There once was a Buddhist from Redding.
Who was hurt one winter while sledding.
In meditation,
A realization:
Attachments to body need shedding.
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