Penang Retreat Nov 2019 Q&A Group 3 Round 3 (54:00-54:55)
Sayadaw: Pain is not the problem, disliking is the problem. Try to face pain as much as you can and learn from the pain.
Pain is not a big problem but you think that pain is very bad. Do you move because of the pain or because of the unpleasant feelings?
(Pain is the name aversion gives to the experience – aversion is the cause and pain is the result. When we watch the aversion and it subsides after a while, then non-aversion is the new cause and no-pain is the new result.)
Don’t run away, you need to learn to face pain – all of us have to face it at our death bed.