On 2/12/2012 7:30 AM, Edgar Owen wrote:
Information is neutral not painful. The pain is in the reaction to the information not the information and that can be changed by right thought.
I am speaking purely of neurological signals when I say "information". Neutrality is not very attention getting. Pain is quite hard to ignore.
If by neutral, you mean devoid of any intrinsic meaning, and that we add that - well, yes, clearly so.
The reactions to this, apply to suffering (the adding of meaning - resiting/attaching ad such), and changes in thinking you speak of (not attaching anything - aka right thought /right action - "right" here not being an overarching moral judgement but a simple matter of effectiveness - of being right with what arises and no mucking it up).
So long as pain is labeled "my pain", the distinction between pain and suffering is not apparent, and there can be no cessation of suffering. The act of identification, of attachment/rejection to what arises, is the root cause of suffering.
K
