By Byron Katie — 2017
All suffering is mental. It has nothing to do with the body or with a person’s circumstances. You can be in great pain without any suffering at all.
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As human beings, our predominant agenda is to survive. The instinct is deep in our DNA. Of course we want to stay alive, but now this instinct has become more of an emotional response. It's less about a threat to our actual existence and more about the barrage of perceived threats to our ego.
As long as we have bodies, we will have physical pain. Buddhism promises no escape from that. What we can change is how we experience pain.
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One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.