Swiss Retreat 2019 Interviews 5 (43:35-44:56) with Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Mental pain is harder to overcome because there is a lot of ‘me’ involved – there’s not enough wisdom. There is a lot of delusion around what we’re feeling and we don’t understand it clearly enough.
It takes more wisdom to free the mind.
We really suffer from mental pain because we don’t know how to stop the mind from generating the mental pain, we don’t know how to stop the mind from thinking about the things that causes pain.
The thoughts are causing us pain, but we don’t know how to stop the thoughts. Sometimes, we don’t even want to stop thinking those thoughts that are causing us pain.
We’re really twisted in our own pain, but we have to learn to stop hurting ourselves.