Swiss Retreat 2019 Group Interviews 10 (1:08:22-1:09:20)
Don’t watch the pain.
Have you noticed how the pain changes in relation to your aversion to it?
You need to watch the aversion so that you can see the connection because it’s only when you watch the aversion continuously that you’ll see when the aversion gets less or more.
Don’t look at the pain because even if you don’t look at it, your mind already knows it’s there.
You don’t need to look at it – you already know what is happening to the pain – watch the aversion to see how the aversion affects your experience of pain.
So, when the aversion increases, what happens to the pain? When the aversion decreases, what happens to the pain?