Yogi: I’m really scared of the dentist because doing a tooth implant is so painful.
Sayadaw: You don’t want the pain because you want comfort – there is too much attachment to comfort and you resist the pain. It depends on your attachment.
You think that pain is very bad; that is why the mind resists. There is already a negative idea about pain. The mind cannot bear it because you think that it is very bad.
And also, who is in pain? The pain and ‘I’ together so the mind resists even more.
First, you need to think that the pain is nature. When you think about the pain in the right way, it becomes less and less; it depends on your understanding level or your attachment and wrong view. The wrong idea makes your mind afraid; pain is not difficult.
It is painful because of the idea, not because of the pain. So, if you can think about the pain in the right way, there will be less fear and less pain.
The pain itself is not the problem but the way the mind thinks about it. All reactions come from wrong view.