Pain

When you react to it, that's when it transforms into suffering.

You can learn to experience pain neutrally is through meditation: it teaches you to accept pain, sit with it and then move on, instead of reacting to it with stress.

Nociception is often a part of the experience of pain, but it is not pain. It is not sufficient nor necessary for pain, for example, when we consider the pain of depression or grief.

So tissue damage can happen without pain, and pain can occur without tissue damage, and nociception that se...

Only one sentence to summarize this episode: when you are experiencing pain, you are growing. The host compares this when we workout. We feel pain in our muscles after we workout because the muscle fibers break and eventually grow. Same as when we experience pain in life. We grow and learn the mo...