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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever
- Lance Armstrong
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
- Jim Morrison
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Here is what I believe is another great insight into the nature and reality of pain, from a truly gifted person:
"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel pain? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all about how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
-Jim Morrison
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Pain and suffering is a fascinating subject that can be viewed in many ways. I really like the following from "The Web That Has No Weaver", a text on Chinese Medicine:
"Suffering is the fundamental awareness that fosters benevolence towards others or self. Without this capacity, a person is numb and incapable of experiencing the depth of another person's humanity or his or her own."
"...pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness."
"The Non-Corporeal Soul's responsibility for human kindness and benevolence has an intimate relationship to a person's capacity to feel and endure pain and suffering. "
"On an existential level, this means [we] understand another person's or a person's own suffering as a call for heightened compassion."
This perspective on pain sounds very relevant to BDSM, and perhaps something that might interest spiritually aware players.
I would be curious to learn what other insights other may have come across.
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Here is another perspective on pain from one of the world's greatest spiritual poets:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
And would you accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burns your lips, has been fashioned in the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
-Khalil Gibran
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