--- In [email protected], Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Regarding real pain, trauma?
The mind readily overcomes this and does so for all but a few who suffer a
pathology that prevents it.
Over time however the brain must balance it's own chemistry.
Hanson's disease,(leprosy) causes a deterioration in pain transmitting nervous
tissue in the body, ussually begining at the periphery.
This results in a failure of the system to recognize injury and address it.
Resulting infection can quickly overwhelm local pathology as the immune system
is not activated to counter the infection.
Infection quickly becomes gangrenous.
A deadly insensitivity.
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