..續本文上一頁: When the disease goes away, or when we get up from sitting in meditation, the really severe pain vanishes, the stress vanishes. So if they are one and the same thing, why doesn”t the bone vanish as well

　　 This shows that they aren”t one and the same. The feeling isn”t the same as the body. The body isn”t the same as the feeling. Similarly, the body and the mind aren”t one and the same. Each has its own separate reality. Distinguish them so as to see them clearly in line with this truth, and you”ll understand their true nature through discernment, with no doubts at all. Feeling will appear in its true nature.

　　Ultimately, the investigation will come circling in, circling in, circling in to the mind. The pain will gradually shrink into itself, away from the mind”s assumptions. In other words, you will see that the mind is the culprit. The mind is the instigator. The physical pain will gradually subside and fade away. The body will simply be there as the body, with the same reality it had before the pain appeared. And now that the pain has vanished, the flesh, skin, tendon, bone or whatever part you had identified as the pain will maintain its reality in the same way. It isn”t the pain. The body is the body. The feeling is the feeling. The mind is the mind. Fix your attention on seeing them clearly. Once the mind has penetrated to the truth, the pain will disappear. This is one result.

　　Another result is that even if the pain doesn”t vanish — here I”m referring to the physical pain — still it can”t have any impact on the heart and mind. Ultimately, the mind is serene, secure, and majestic, there in the midst of the physical pain. No matter which part of the body you say is pained — even if it”s the whole body at once — the mind isn”t disturbed or agitated in any way. It”s relaxed and at ease because it has seen with discernment right through the pain appearing at the moment. This is another sort of result that comes from investigating pain.

　　When investigating pain, then the greater the pain, the more important it is that your mindfulness and discernment not retreat. They have to keep advancing so as to know the truth. You needn”t aim at making the pain vanish, because such a desire would simply enhance the pain and make it more and more severe. Actually, you”re making an investigation simply to see the truth. Whether or not the pain vanishes, know the truth that is the pain or gives rise to the pain by seeing through it with your own discernment: That”s enough. Fix your attention there, and these things will keep appearing and disappearing there in the khandhas.

　　The body appears for a certain period and then disintegrates in what we call death. As for feelings of pain, they appear a hundred times in a single day and then disappear a hundred times, a thousand times as well. What”s lasting about them

　　 This is the kind of truth they are. Get so you clearly know with discernment the truth of painful feelings as they appear. Don”t retreat or let the mind wander adrift.

　　What is sañña labeling at the moment

　　 Sañña is the important instigator. As soon as sankhara fashions anything — blip! — sañña latches right onto it and labels it this, labels it that — stirring things all up. When we talk about the things that create havoc, provoking this issue and that, we”re referring to these characters: sankharas and saññas that label things and stamp meanings on them. ”This is us. This is ours. This is pain. It hurts right here. It hurts right there. I”m afraid of the pain. I”m afraid to die” — afraid of everything of every sort. These are the characters that fool us into fear, making the mind apprehensive, making it give up its efforts and lose. Is it good to lose

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