Pain inevitable part of life

Just the name itself is enough to drive people away. It seems the fear of pain is bigger than the actual experience of pain. Actually it’s the fear  that exaggerates the feeling of pain and makes it unbearable.

But have you noticed an interesting fact that there is no unbearable pain.

Every pain is bearable. If it were really unbearable we would not survive it, we would be dead by now! What is required is to take some deep breaths and closely look at the pain-- be it physical or psychological.

To be free of pain the  prerequisite is : accept that pain is part of living. Pain is  a simple pain-ful fact.

Pain is a signal of physical discomfort given by the nerve to the brain. And suffering happens because of  refusal of pain, the  expectation  that life should not be painful.

It is the rejection of a fact, the denial of life and of the nature of things.   Suffering comes from your desire that the pain should not be there, that there is something wrong in pain.  Separate the fact from your expectation.

Watch, witness, and you will be surprised. You have a headache: the pain is there but suffering is not there. Suffering is a secondary phenomenon, pain is primary.

The headache is there, the pain is there; it is simply a fact. There is no judgment about it -- you don't call it good or bad, you don't give it any value; it is just a fact.

The rose is a fact, so is the thorn. The day is a fact, so is the night. The head is a fact, so is the headache. You simply take note of it.

Osho has created a meditation out of it. If you could learn the art of looking at your pain, very soon the pain will turn into happiness and you will have found a key to your basic problem of life.

" Whenever you feel any pain just sit silently and focus your whole mind on the headache. Listen to it... almost touch the texture of it. And intensify it-- make it more and more tense, and pinpoint where it is. The more you concentrate, the more it will go on shrinking. Then it will come to a point, a needle-point -- but a very sharp pain. Just remain with it.

If you can remain with that sharp-pointed pain, suddenly you will see that it has disappeared.

Try it with ordinary pain -- headache, stomach ache, or anything. And by and by try psychological pain. "